More Power to the People..

September 16, 2005 on 11:04 am | In Updates by Josh Jones |

It's only temporary.

Right now outside our window they’re unloading an “aggreko diesel rent-a-generator”.

This is to get the generators up to N+1 again while they repair the last one that’s still being cranky.

Dun dun dun…

10 Comments

  1. 1

    No word on the quantum singularity then?

    Comment by Simon Jessey — September 16, 2005 #

  2. 2

    At least its a better picture than the crazy chainsaw weilding tarzan tree trimmer =)

    /just not as exciting

    Comment by Chris — September 16, 2005 #

  3. 3

    hope this one works!! :)

    Comment by Juan — September 16, 2005 #

  4. 4

    Hope it works to.

    Comment by noa — September 16, 2005 #

  5. 5

    Yay! A new generator. The others proved to be so reliable ;-)

    Comment by Robert — September 16, 2005 #

  6. 6

    Just got your email. You guys turned what sounds like a minor catastrophe (Compared to other recent catastrophes) into a hiccup I never noticed. Keep up the good work!

    Comment by John Pfeiffer — September 17, 2005 #

  7. 7

    Have you guys clicked the valid XHTM link recently?

    -Matttail

    Comment by matttail — September 17, 2005 #

  8. 8

    perhaps it should be N + 2 instead..;-)

    Comment by apoRia21 — September 17, 2005 #

  9. 9

    That generator is absolutely… massive. Looks like something that should be powering a submarine, not an office building… However, considering their recent track records I’m not sure I’d trust it to keep me from sinking into an abyss, eh :-D

    Comment by Daniel — September 18, 2005 #

  10. 10

    [...] For those of you glossing over this little part of the email, generators will fail, that’s a given. They might not have checked them properly, they could choke up, this is a very common thing, which is why you always have several, to provide resilience to the system. One fails you’ve got another one to handle the load or whatever. There are different degrees of resilience, and that’s where the term n+1 (which they also talk about later comes into play). N being the nominal number of generators they need to supply the building completely, and plus 1 for the additional generator, in case one fails. [...]

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