Frodo Posted August 16, 2003 Share Posted August 16, 2003 argh, my power just came back on last night, i live in michigan. stupid grid. i should kick it ;). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gobalopper Posted August 16, 2003 Author Share Posted August 16, 2003 BeforeAfter"It's a good thing all the green lights marking the state borders stayed on, or there could have been real trouble." :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemafakei Posted August 16, 2003 Share Posted August 16, 2003 Hehe. You see, if you annoy us, all we do is filch the boron rods, and release the right valves to pour away the coolant, and there goes most of N. America. And now we have the US in our pocket with a bit of blackmail... well, it makes the Dutch look like amateurs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navaros Posted August 16, 2003 Share Posted August 16, 2003 much to the disappointment of all those who hate me, Nav has survived the blackout!!!i *just* got power back at 6PM my time on Saturday night! arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! i really wanna choke some people to death (mostly incompetent hydro workers and politicians)incidentally i have decided to construct 5 windtraps in my backyard so this never happens to your dear friend Nav again :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryphon Posted August 17, 2003 Share Posted August 17, 2003 Ah, but the plants are owned by a British-based company, as I recall.World domination one step further .. ..The Brits own my local nuke plant.That has got to be scary... . :- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowzeewee Posted August 17, 2003 Share Posted August 17, 2003 Do you think it is really a work of terrorist?Personally I do not think so.They are just finding a final solution to sum up Operation Iranian Liberating...oops....since it spells OIL which describes their objective,it will be changed to Operation Iranian Freedom...Damn!Shouldn't have told you guys! :O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted August 17, 2003 Share Posted August 17, 2003 It would be funny except that Britannia is having a few power problems of her own, due to the heat wave among other things. Fortunately, soon we plan to build more wind farms! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryphon Posted August 17, 2003 Share Posted August 17, 2003 The below is from a well known newsgroup .. they are having a discussion about it at the time. :)The article is in german, but I'm trying to translate the important piecesto english:The failing niagara power-plant belongs to National Grid USA. Thatpower-supplier is listed as a reference customer of Northern Dynamics.Norhtern Dynamics labeled themselves as "Home of the OPC Experts" andoffer a range of products that use OPC for control and operation systems.OPC stands for "Ole for process control" and is based on microsoftsCOM/DCOM model. In a network affected by the W32.Blaster worm theDCOM-communcation fails, and therefor OPC fails on unpatched systems.OPC is employed among other things for the linking of so called SCADAsystems (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), as used bypower-plants.The OPC experts from northern dynamics also list General Electrics,Siemens AG, european power-plant constructor ABB and the europeanorganization for nuclear research as reference customers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edric O Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 Low Power - build more Windtraps ;DYou know, I wish Washington was without power... but I'm not talking about electrical power. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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