On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 20:54:05 -0600, Eric Bielefeld wrote: >Back in the 80's I worked for 2 different companies, each at an opposite end >an office park about a mile apart. The first company I worked for had big >turbines that they turned on whenever a storm came through, so the computer >room was powered by the turbines. They didn't have any batteries. The 2nd >company I worked for after I left the 1st one had a huge room full of >batteries, but no turbine generator. I always thought that it was amazing >that each had half of the full UPS system. > I surmise from your irony that the weren't interconnected.
Gas turbines? I've heard that NORAD Cheyenne Mountain had (are they still there?) diesel engines on static standby, with block heaters. But the flywheels were kept spinning. A magnetic clutch could swap to diesel power in a fraction of a second. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
