John Berry
Matthew Redmond wrote:
> Hi Jerry and everyone else,
>
> > On the news tonite, there is a detailed story about the major power
> > outage in New Zealand....amazing, the entire downtown is shutdown
>
> 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.
> > --
> > Jerry W. Decker / jdecker@keelynet.com
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