On Jun 26, 12:50 pm, stosk...@tri.net wrote: > Last summer I visited the Grand Coulee dam. They had one turbine spinning > at the appropriate frequency with no load. Idea is that if a sudden load > increase occurred they would just kick in more water as they added the > load almost instantly. > > Lawrence Stoskopf
I was there a couple years ago and also toured it. My recollection was that the massive turbines take hours to spool up or coast to a stop and so they're kept spinning all the time unless shut down for maintenance. I could be remembering wrong though as it's been a while. Impressive place, I remember how the whole building trembled continuously from the force of the water. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
