This happened in Auckland which comprises of about a third of the
population of NZ. The rest of New Zealand (the better portion of the
country to which I happily belong to) have found this slightly amusing,
however I do feel sorry for those businesses effected.
The area effected, the main commercial district, had four high voltage
lines going in to it. I had been known since the 70's that these cables
were in a bad shape, that made itself known just last week during what we
in the East of the country describe as a "mild heat wave". During this
period a lot of airconditioners, etc, were running which put a bit of a
strain on the cables which in turn overheated and one after the other over
a period of a few days, gave up the ghost. All that is left is a 22kv (I
think that's right) back-up cable running essential things.
> it says some are using emergency generators that often overload and burst
> into flame...other businesses are temporarily moving to the suburbs where
> power is still available....
They are now trying to rent ten big generators from overseas, which are
going to cost 1 and a half to 2 million dollars.
The generators currently in use were not designed to run for such periods
of time, and the first cable wont be running till around Thursday, and 3
weeks until they were back to where they were a couple of weeks ago, so
there is a lot to be done yet.
There are other generators from around the country going up to Auckland to
help out.
> What a story to emphasize the need for off grid power generation systems!
>
> 1) Dis-associate water to produce hydroxyl (hydrogen and oxygen),
> 2) burn hydroxyl gases to produce heat
> 3) heat water to produce steam
> 4) steam feeds a turbine, preferably Tesla turbine for high efficiency
> 5) turbine turns a generator
> 6) generator runs a house or small business OR
> 7) recharges battery networks that provide power
Nearly all of the power that the country (including Auckland) uses is from
the south island and its hydro-electric plants. A large underwater cable
links the north island to the south island. Sometimes south islanders
want to cut it and let the north island to fend for itself, but think we
need to get over that, after all WHEN free energy devices are up and
running we wont need it any more anyway!
> > Solar powered Stirling engine to trickle charge a battery network.
> Minto wonderwheel geared up to trickle charge a battery network.
> Wind, water, solar to trickle charge a battery network.
> Heat pump to provide rotation that turns a generator to feed batteries.
>
> All these are off the shelf or require building.
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