Re: Building Cited for Housing Fuel Tanks Catches Fire [NYT]
An electrical fire broke out in the basement of an office tower in TriBeCa yesterday, four months after building inspectors said they had discovered illegal diesel fuel tanks installed on the upper floors of the tower.
basement. roof. what is it i am not getting here? osama bin elevator? the ratcheting (rat sh<bleep>ing?) up of the american press hysteria?
Diesel fuel from a leaky roof tank will eventually drip down to the basement. Heat from a basement fire will eventually rise up to the roof and cause diesel fuel tanks to explode. In any case, this problem should be solved by the city government in a large city. It is a fact that large cities are large telecomm hubs. It is a fact that large telecomm hubs need guaranteed power supplies. It is a fact that the individual players in telecomm want to be located near each other in large cities (same building, same block). The solution to this whole mess is for the city government to run a special power utility that operates a pair of safe and highly secure diesel power generating plants which provide dual entrance service to telecomm hotels in a specific area of the city. That way folks can install equipment with no batteries and no generators because they are getting triply redundant and diverse power (utility, and 2 city diesel generation plants). We eliminate the dangers of hydrogen fumes and exploding batteries and flammable diesel. BTW, has anyone done any studies of heat generation in routers and switches to identify which bits of the hardware generate the most heat (i.e. consume the most power) and which functions generate the most heat? Maybe there are opportunities for dramatically reducing power consumption by changing the way we configure our networks. --Michael Dillon
Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
In any case, this problem should be solved by the city government in a large city. It is a fact that large cities are large telecomm hubs. It is a fact that large telecomm hubs need guaranteed power supplies. It is a fact that the individual players in telecomm want to be located near each other in large cities (same building, same block). The solution to this whole mess is for the city government to run a special power utility that operates a pair of safe and highly secure diesel power generating plants which provide dual entrance service to telecomm hotels in a specific area of the city. That way folks can install equipment with no batteries and no generators because they are getting triply redundant and diverse power (utility, and 2 city diesel generation plants).
And why exactly should taxpayers subsidize telecom hotels? (And don't say it won't need to be subsidized, because if it can be profitable without subsidies stop posting to nanog and start talking to investors.) Bradley
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