There are already quite a few rapid start gas peakers not only being produced but in-service. Nothing about Boom's stands out as being significantly different.
thats kind-of what I thought. GE sell a lot, so maybe this introduces some supply chain diversity and has a different maintenance burden and duty cycle. Thats about it.
My parents live in a small town in Texas and are in the MAGA camp. They came to Portland a couple of years ago to visit and said "oh, it's not like what was on TV"... Yes, that's what I was trying to tell you.
Now they are saying I should move based on what they see on Fox News. I'm dumbfounded; Don't you remember what it was like when you were here? It hasn't changed.
Part of it is a small town mentality, the big city is just dangerous. The rest of it is just being spoon fed clips of the same protest footage over and over and over again.
A bunch of them are vegetation fires. We are very dry here right now, so any thrown cigarette is a risk. We are supposed to get some rain this weekend.
Portland has issues with homeless...no one can deny this fact. Things are a little better since hard drugs were recriminalized, but the city is far from "fine".
Oh, are the homeless the reason the National Guard was called in? I thought it was for the protests. /s
Yes, Portland has a homeless issue. It has had one since I moved here in 2013 (and probably before then). Covid made it worse but the issue is slowly getting better. But again, homelessness isn't what the President and Kristi Noem are talking about.
I'm glad someone posted this here. Outside of the 1 block where the protest is happening, you would never know anything is out of the ordinary in Portland.
"'It's been happening all morning. Let me know if you see anything. No one else has seen anything except for on the TCAS,' one air traffic controller can be heard telling an inbound flight. Based on CBS News' review of the ATC audio, at least 12 flight crews reported receiving apparent false TCAS alerts — leading three flights to perform go-arounds between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. ET on Saturday."
Sure but it was obvious that a number of the pictures were actual planes, often corroborated by the photograph being taken directly next to an airport takeoff/landing flight path.
It was obvious to any educated observer that a number of the claimed "Drones" were actually Airbus A320 aircraft being operated by American Airlines. The photos where clear enough to see the American Flag paint scheme on the tail. Yet still conspiracy idiots continue to defend these misidentifications. Some of them are out there with firearms even.
The article doesn't say much about it but I am sure there is significant work being done at the transmission substations as well to support the extra capacity.
As the new conductors will have lower impedance, some breakers may need to be replaced to interrupt higher fault current. Otherwise, it's likely the only substation equipment needing to upgrade would be series compensation stations which may have lower normal and emergency ratings than the upgraded conductors.
More likely is that lower impedance on the reconductored circuit will cause increased flows on other, non-upgraded circuits, either requiring those to be reconductored, or installing phase-shifting tranformers or reactors to limit current.
Have you seen a lot of phase-shifting transformers in the U.S.? In my experience they've mostly been in Europe with a few specialized applications in the States.
I would think a utility would want to reconductor the other circuits otherwise they're leaving benefits on the table right?
I only know the western US. And my experience is consistant with your own -- specialized applications.
They would love to reconductor the other circuits. In the US, the utilities make a guaranteed rate of return on investments in the transmission system. So, anything they regulators will let them do, they'll do -- not necessarily because it has technical benefits, but because it has economic benefits.
This is one reason why reconductoring isn't that popular with utilities -- it allows the utility to get more capacity with less spend, so less profit.
Fair enough. I had a conversation with one utility that was fine with transformers popping (even if preventable) because a popped transformer becomes a capitalizable expense.
Spot on. David Roberts (Volts) also asked about that in one of his interviews.
IIRC, the expert answer was: substations generally need a retrofit (eg new transformer, breakers, smarts).
Even so, reconductoring is much faster and cheaper than building new lines.
Because retro doesn't require a new permit, often reuse existing footprint, and substations can be upgraded as needed (eg only for sections pushing more power).
