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Re: WEATHER: rolling blackouts along the East Coast
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan () robotics net>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:39:51 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Jeremy Porter wrote:
Frankly if people would just dig a big hole in the ground, bury all the computer equipment in it, with the large thermal mass, you could keep it at a nice 68F all year round.
That is a joke right? With data center heat calculations going up, that is hardly a major difference.
Maybe its just Texas, but I can't recall ever having a power outage due to lack of capacity in the summer. Although I've see heating systems fail in the winter, when it gets unusally cold and the natural gas pipelines give up.
Wow, I find that hard to beleave. I have lived in many areas of the world and they all have problems with the summer load, just as many gas companies do with the winter load. The utilities including telephone don't engineer their networks for the highest possible load, they try to get as close as they can. Telephone networks have blocking probabilities, power networks have load factors, etc. -- Check out the new CLEC mailing list at http://www.robotics.net/clec
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