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To: meatloaf
That’s not a lot of generating capacity. A large coal or nuclear plant is typically about 1,000 megawatts.

I currently have a single 1.3GW (yes that's "G" as in Gigawatt) generator rotor from a California nuke plant in my shop in Virginia for a complete rewind, and dynamic testing . The plant has two units the same size. I had their spare rotor in the shop a year and a half ago, and the other unit several years ago when So Cal Edison had a grid shortfall and was doing rolling "brown-outs". We had half their needed generating capacity sitting on a lathe here in Richmond.

12 posted on 03/01/2008 3:56:20 AM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: P8riot

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130 posted on 03/01/2008 10:34:13 AM PST by null and void (I slept better when I thought our betters actually were better...)
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