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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
I just listened to a spin doctor from United trying to explain why Jemena had problems ( which were all fixed quickly ), but United still had over 10,000 people without power.
She tried ( badly ) to explain that there were lots of fuses in the substations and a lot of these tripped, so they had to go and fix them.
Welll duuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh.
I may be a dumb Mechanical engineer, but i do know that if you jam more and more Multi storey dogboxes onto large blocks in the inner east, they are all going to require full AirCon, as they have no ventilation, no trees for shade, black tile roofs and no eaves.
The old demolished house probably was designed to not even need aircon.
If these twerps running the supply system havent twigged that more load in the same area means bigger fuses at the substations then we are just going to suffer more.
I suspect its more likely the substations themselves are now getting close to their absolute design limits on hot days ( vs their absolute working limits ), and no one wants to stump up the cash to improve them.
Andrew
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Interesting comment Andrew.
I worked in Telstra in the pre-optical fiber days and they had the same issue. Houses would be knocked down and replaced by multi-unit apartments, and presto; suddenly there was not enough cable to provide phone services for everybody.
When I think about it, the situation is a bit like roads. There were generally adequate in the days of the one-car family, but have never been adequate since.