Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
No date on that 'press release' but the way back machine helps put it somewhere in 2002. A lot of good this "Alameda" sized generator has done recently...
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.he.net/releases/release18.html
2MW isn't super huge or anything. I would expect that, given the size I have been led to believe HE is, they've got a lot more than that now. My memory is that Alameda isn't huge, but it isn't small either. I'm not sure .. ah, here http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS179594+03-Apr-2009+BW2009040... peak 70MW I'm not sure what the basis for the claim is that a 2MW generator is "large enough to power the entire city of Alameda" ... 2MW gensets are common enough in this business and it's possible to burn through 2MW in a few hundred racks. It isn't *that* much power. A more conventional comparison might be to something like a hospital; one of our local hospitals installed a 1.25MW generator which, IIRC, powers all critical circuits. http://hhenergyservices.com/electrical/photos.php?category_id=2845&subcategory_id=5027&id=196&number=7 Sometimes it is easier to picture things that way. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.