East Coast outage?

Fri Aug 15 22:59:18 UTC 2003

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 00:25:14 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum said:

> It seems to me that the power guys are still living somewhere in the 
> last century. Is it really impossible to absorb power spikes? We can go 
> from utility to battery or the other way around in milliseconds, so it 

How many kVA are *you* switching?

How many kVA are running through those big 765kv lines?

This is what a *circuit breaker* looks like at those sizes:

http://www.hhi.co.kr/english/IndustrialPowerSystem/product/highvoltage/product2-7.html

8000 amps at 765kv.

And that's just to *break* the circuit without vaporizing itself in the process.
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