Re: the net is falling and I want my mommy again
- From: SteveD <usenet@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:56:03 +0900
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 08:49:46 +0000 (UTC), Roger Burton West
<roger+asr200812@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
TimC wrote:
Nuclear power stations typically have 8 redundant diesel generators
ready to start the plant. Let's just hope the refinery isn't running
on our power.
It's worse than that: what supplies the current for the diesel's starter
motor? (See RISKS, as always.)
Ideally, you'd have a smaller, perhaps portable, diesel generator for this
purpose. One which could be started from a hand crank or hand-crankable
flywheel.
Alternatively, have a manually crankable (by hand or bike wheel) flywheel
of sufficent dimensions and mass to provide starter power for the larger
generator.
-SteveD
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