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| Detroit Power Outage Due To Public Lighting 'System Overload' |
| 2013-09-12 |
| [DETROIT.CBSLOCAL] A major power outage is affecting Wayne State University, the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, the City-County building, the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... Historical Museum, and the People Mover in downtown Detroit. "Some institutional public lighting customers are experiencing service interruption caused by extreme heat, cable failure, and routine maintenance -- all combining causing system overload," said Robert Warfield, a front man for the Detroit Mayor's Office. Wayne State spokesperson Jessica Archer said the campus would be closed for the rest of the day, Wednesday, after about half of all buildings -- maybe 40 or 50 -- lost power. She said they would decide later about Thursday's schedule. Passengers aboard the People Mover were directed off at the nearest station. The People Mover is closed until further notice. At City Hall, EMS crews were called out to help a pregnant woman on the 4th floor after an evacuation forced people to walk down the stairs to safety. Officials said she'd doing fine. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 OS, the big issue with solar is the difference between summer and winter. On a cloudy day in winter I get just 5% of the power from my solar that I get on a sunny day in summer and 9 out of 10 days are sunny in summer here in Perth. I seriously looked at an NG generator, but I couldn't use the waste heat for winter heating. Like almost everyone here, I don't have central heating. But if you use the waste heat for heating, then with the price of NG in the states, I'd say a NG generator is a no brainer. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2013-09-12 16:44 |
| #10 AP, are the large amounts of marine batteries worth it? There's plenty of sun (main part of the house runs E-W so I have nice large S and N facing roof spaces. Was thinking of solar to help cut the air conditioning costs in the summer, and run the furnace fans (gas heat) in the winter, selling excess back. Add in an additional set of non-electric panels for hot water. But one of the solar guru types is talking about storage, and a NatGas genny. Not worried about heating/cooking because we have gas for that. I already have some custom wiring done by an electrician and a separate circuit and 50A breaker box for my generator stuff with cutout, its seperated from my house box (250 but only using 200, had that done when I had things rewired). The extra box is fed from the main via the cutout. Main use is when we have an extended outage, I can hole up in the master bedroom, and run the ceiling fan, bathroom exhaust fan, lights (all LED now), TV, cable, internet, and bring up the mini fridge (mainly for medications), and a portable single room A/C - all on their own marked outlets, generator is sized to handle startup for all those as long thanks to a good electrician who did the planning and work). So what would a battery bank buy me if I were to sink that cost in addition to the solar Im looking at? Mainly a profit maker for the seller? What about auto-standby nat-gas generators versus my gasoline Honda manual? Just curious - all this talk of unreliable power and solar got me thinking. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2013-09-12 12:22 |
| #9 “We made sure that there was somebody was with every person that was stuck on the floors until we could get them down" sic sick |
| Posted by: KBK 2013-09-12 11:51 |
| #8 Redneck Jim--A well planned solar system is great. Makes you cognizant of how much power you use. Keep a good inverter standby generator around and you will be good. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-09-12 10:42 |
| #7 "...and I'm proud to inaugurate this find example of our future by opening the electrical recharging station for our modern green city-county electric fleet" BLINK |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-09-12 08:47 |
| #6 At least the Obamaphones still worked. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2013-09-12 08:46 |
| #5 Well, It ant Obama's, you can bet on that. (Regardless of the loops he twists it into.) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-09-12 08:10 |
| #4 I suppose this is W's fault somehow. |
| Posted by: gorb 2013-09-12 02:16 |
| #3 One too many pennies in the fusebox or 50 years of accumulated bad karma discharging all at once? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-09-12 01:41 |
| #2 Hmmm, My solar power system is looking better and better. It's bought, but not installed yrt. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-09-12 00:54 |
| #1 Officials said sheÂ’d doing fine. Yes, Kids - that's actually in the CBS article. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-09-12 00:39 |