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| Spyro | Date: Friday, 08.02.2013, 23:58 | Message # 526 |
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| Quote As some of you may have heard there's a powerful winter storm moving into New England, possibly one of the biggest ever, and it looks something like this:
Yep. Experiencing that right now, but we're having a lot more than 1 foot. I think the power is going out pretty soon...
Quote That's how I feel too. Last winter we had almost no snow, probably less than 20 cm total for the entire season
Yeah. Green Cristmases are the worst.
Sorry I haven't been replying much, I'm working on something big with my little brother. Also, there's school. 
At least I had a snow day!
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| midtskogen | Date: Saturday, 09.02.2013, 07:30 | Message # 527 |
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| Isn't it peculiar that your power grid is so vulnerable to a bit of snow? Where's the quality? Below you see a buildup of ice around some power lines grown to a diameter of 1.5 meters (this is what happens if you have a lot of fog and wind for weeks and months). That's more than 300 kg per meter of wire. But it's still standing 
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| Watsisname | Date: Saturday, 09.02.2013, 07:45 | Message # 528 |
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| A bit of snow, a bit of rain, a hot and muggy day, a slight breeze... our grid is so flimsy I'm impressed the whole thing doesn't fail just from a squirrel running down the lines. 
Amazing photo by the way. It doesn't even seem possible that they could support that much weight!
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 09.02.2013, 08:10 | Message # 529 |
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| Quote (midtskogen) Isn't it peculiar that your power grid is so vulnerable to a bit of snow?
It is not usually the accumulation of snow/ice on the lines that causes outages, but the accumulation of snow/ice on tree limbs, which break and knock out wires especially with high winds, or caused by people crashing vehicles into vulnerable power poles, etc. I could be wrong, but I think those are the main causes.
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| midtskogen | Date: Saturday, 09.02.2013, 11:48 | Message # 530 |
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| Quote (Watsisname) but the accumulation of snow/ice on tree limbs, which break and knock out wires especially with high winds
Yes, there must be no trees near power lines. This is good for limiting forest fires as well. I found these guidelines used in Norway: 22kV: 16 meters, 66 kV: 18 or 20 or 24 meters, 132 kV 30 meters. I think the power companies are required by law to pay customers if they lose power, something like $100 for a 12-24 hour outage, $250 for 24-48 hours, $500 for 48-72 hours, and $230 on top of that for every extra day. It's probably cheaper for them to keep the forest away.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 09.02.2013, 15:56 | Message # 531 |
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| Quote (midtskogen) . I found these guidelines used in Norway: 22kV: 16 meters, 66 kV: 18 or 20 or 24 meters, 132 kV 30 meters.
We'd have to cut down like every tree in the country to do something like that  Not literally the entire country, but certainly most trees in this part of the country. The population density is such that, given those guidelines, entire sections of towns and entire cities would be completely stripped of trees.
Naturally the areas around high capacity wires are kept deforested, but the wires that run through individual towns and to homes cannot be, it's impossible.
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| midtskogen | Date: Saturday, 09.02.2013, 16:48 | Message # 532 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) The population density is such that, given those guidelines, entire sections of towns and entire cities would be completely stripped of trees.
The solution to that is to dig. And make sure that they add some fiber cables at the same time...
And if they put the high capacity wires underground under the highways, we could have induction powered cars.  How much do today's electric cars spend of their capacity simply to move the batteries around?
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 09.02.2013, 17:26 | Message # 533 |
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| ...what manner of sorcery is this?
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| Disasterpiece | Date: Saturday, 09.02.2013, 19:14 | Message # 534 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) what manner of sorcery is this?
The muggle does not understand our powers, and which he does not comprehend, he fears.
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| werdnaforever | Date: Saturday, 09.02.2013, 20:24 | Message # 535 |
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| Quote (HarbingerDawn) ...what manner of sorcery is this?
It reminds me of that scene in I, Robot, where Sonny draws his dream with both hands.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 09.02.2013, 22:58 | Message # 536 |
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Sunday, 10.02.2013, 21:19 | Message # 537 |
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| I have found this to be a helpful tutorial in fixing my issues with AMD/ATI
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| Aerospacefag | Date: Sunday, 10.02.2013, 22:01 | Message # 538 |
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| HarbingerDawn, calligraphy + wide brush + "wet brush" technique + some neat hand movies. Those scales appear because he is shaking it a little while moving, so that the paint would gather in special manner.
I own a little Tyranid army for tabletop WH40K, and I have the an to paint some of the miniatures myself - some day, at least. So I, kinda, learned something about these painting tricks.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Sunday, 10.02.2013, 22:35 | Message # 540 |
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| Quote (Disasterpiece) A joyous occasion
...those two things do not go together 
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