Cheeky/Eski: I have a client who works for TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority-THEEE electric utility)in management and this is what he told me, so pay close attention:
Sure, there are manual overrides...
BUT...most of the employees have never executed this procedure, continued to provide electrical service in the manual override capacity 24/7/365/
nor had to maintain manual provided electricity 24/7/365 in YEARS
and all of those who have, have been called back to teach the "newbies" how to do this...and they have drills all the time.
(can you spell increased payroll expense to be passed along to ...
shareholders? you've GOT to be kidding!)
BUT...the manual overrides to operate the back-up power generators while the main ones are "down" will only operate anywhere from 8-48 hours...before they overheat and shut down due to that factor.
Now, the reeeeeeally tough question is this:
Since these folks have had anywhere from 48 years (back to the first computer) to the next 368 days to "fix this Y2K problem" and haven't gotten it done yet, what makes you, Eski, or Cheeky Kid think that they will be able to get all the re-coding done in 8-48 HOURS before the back up generators at TVA or any OTHER elec. ut. for that matter,
close down due to overheating?
Yeah, I thot so...the ole Hail Mary pass to the end zone, just ain't gonna happen, altho' TVA, WHEN they get their coding fixed, has figured out a way to get off the inter-connected grid, so that they CAN take care of their little corner of Tennessee heaven, at least with rolling power---such as 2 hours on, 22 off--via manual operations.
Of course, then there is all those increased cost:
1) code de-bugging personel wages
2) replacing newbies with oldies that know how to operate manually...
double pension??? expense)
3) reduced income due to rolling power solution means lower billings
4) older worker rehires means higher medical expenses borne by employer
5) replacement of older back-up, overheated generators with NEW gennys that are guarandamnteed to cost more as more utilities are scrambling for available supply...
wouldn't it just be easier to buy an inverter, a couple of solar panels, some DC male plugs and give'em a break, all the while saving your wallet a major utility bill "upgrade?"
Surely you realize that the rolling power solution already announced by some electric utes are priortized to operate water treatment and emergency services...but do you think for one second those municipal and industrial users pay the freight on ute's fixed costs? Silly BOYS!
oh, well... I tried...
and remember this came directly from MANAGEMENT, at TVA...one of the biggest and baddest in the USA electric grid!
Oh, and sappy new year.
O/49r
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