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Re: generators, etc....
From: Peter Lothberg <roll () Stupi SE>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 96 14:52:14 MET DST
Sure, Mike, but how do you protect against an airplane falling out of the sky?
Build the pop by blasting out a tunnel deep into a mountain and out again on the other side. Then a 90 degree shaft in the middle into the pop rom itself. (So, if somwone wan't to create a shockwave in the pop, they have to have two blasts, and it's hard to do rigt)
or having the building that houses your generators flattened by a runaway semi?
You have 2+2 generators, two in a backroom with it's own proper ventilation shaft, and one in each end of the tunnel that goes across the mountain. (You might concider Jet-turbines). Each generator has it's own fuel supply, and power wiring is redundant. The pop itself should be a -48V DC plant.
Or the ever present possibility that the building next door will have a gas leak and explode?
Explosions in the access tunnel is non fatal, and probably some gas- detectors and proper fans would be a good thing to have.
And what about that house-sized meteor that could come hurtling down?
Likely to shake the mountain, so, we build a house inside the cave, and put this house on suspenders (that will provide proper shock absortion). Airconditioning is a separate problem, usally the mountain leeks enough wather (+5 centigrades) that you can run through your heat-exchanger, or you have to drill for wather. If we have several of those locations, all with 24*7 staffin, I think it would be produce a good service, even when there are no customers left. --Peter Ps: Make sure that your external connections are redundant enough, microwave towers ontop are likely to be wiped out.. --::)) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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- Re: generators, etc.... Patrick J. Chicas (Oct 14)
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- Re: generators, etc.... Alan Hannan (Oct 12)
- Re: generators, etc.... Paul Ferguson (Oct 13)
- Re: generators, etc.... Patrick J. Chicas (Oct 14)
- Re: generators, etc.... Steve Norton (Oct 14)
- Re: generators, etc.... Michael Dillon (Oct 14)
- Re: generators, etc.... William Allen Simpson (Oct 16)
- Re: generators, etc.... Curtis Villamizar (Oct 18)
- Re: generators, etc.... Peter Lothberg (Oct 17)
- Re: generators, etc.... Peter Lothberg (Oct 17)