National grid

[bigpaul]

i think i read somewhere( may have been a post by NR earlier this year) that if some of the connectors(or something) got knocked out on the National Grid it would take years..maybe never...to replace all the connections??

[NorthernRaider]

(30 July 2012, 08:12)bigpaul Wrote: i think i read somewhere( may have been a post by NR earlier this year) that if some of the connectors(or something) got knocked out on the National Grid it would take years..maybe never...to replace all the connections??

You have to reports mixed up together there BP

Its estimated by some experts that taking out only a few specific distribution hubs on the NG would cause a cascade failure of most of the grid, and the other one was if an EMP went off it could take decades to rebuild the system.

[bigpaul]

yeah, it was the EMP one i was referring to

[Skean Dhude]

The estimate was because these units rarely need replacing, we have so many of them so that if they blew in an EMP there would not be enough spares to replace even a small amount. A massive programme to rebuild would be started but it would take a while.

[David075]

its now up to 600m without power guess i will not be geting much telesales from india for a while !

[NorthernRaider]

(31 July 2012, 14:26)David075 Wrote: its now up to 600m without power guess i will not be geting much telesales from india for a while !

Aha I wondered why BT was not answering my calls

[bigpaul]

maybe thats a good thing, i'm fed up answering UNSOLICITED calls from people in foreign call centres who i cant understand.

[David075]

tell me about it they phone you up then demand you confirm your details before they tell you who they are anyway im keeping an eye on the india thing see how that develops.