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RE: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator
From: Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:51:22 -0800 (PST)
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Timo Janhunen wrote: > Natural gas is volatile, hence not a good option in earthquake prone > areas - earthquake + natural gas line = big smelly leak - big smelly leak + > spark = big fire They're already there. Whether or not you use it doesn't affect the likelihood that it'll break in an earthquake. And FWIW, I've been throught a lot of earthquakes, and I've been through a lot of gas-line cuts, but the two have never coincided. Backhoes always so far. > - The gas gets cut off immediately in any fire situation, usually > affecting a few city blocks at a time When was the last time you saw a fire that affected a few city blocks? I'm sure gas would be cut off in the event of a fire of that magnitude, but are you arguing that diesel delivery would continue? Trucks rolling through the maelstrom? I'm not sure what your point is here. > Diesel generators come in both turbocharged and naturally aspirated > models, which can easily be serviced Hey, and engine is an engine, regardless of what you dump in the top. Doesn't make any difference to the mechanic, or the parts guy, or whatever... It's all the same parts. -Bill
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- Re[2]: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator Richard Welty (Apr 04)
- Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator Stephen Sprunk (Apr 04)
- Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator Daniel Senie (Apr 04)
- Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator Bill Woodcock (Apr 04)
- Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator David Lesher (Apr 04)
- Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator David Lesher (Apr 04)
- Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator Brian Wallingford (Apr 04)
- Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator E.B. Dreger (Apr 05)
- Re[2]: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator Richard Welty (Apr 05)
- RE: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator Timo Janhunen (Apr 04)
- RE: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator Bill Woodcock (Apr 04)
- RE: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator Dan Hollis (Apr 04)
- RE: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator Timo Janhunen (Apr 04)
- RE: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator Eric Germann (Apr 04)
- Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator JC Dill (Apr 05)
- Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator Chris Adams (Apr 03)
- Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator David Lesher (Apr 03)
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