Re: Transmission Lines along NJ Turkpike

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 03:43:57 -0500, aphexcoil <> wrote:

>When I drive north up the NJ Turnpike, I notice a very long stretch of
>what appears to be very high voltage lines.  Does anyone know the
>answer to the following:

As a general rule, the people who KNOW a lot about connectivity don't
talk.  Especially "post 9/11"....  loose lips sink ships.

I'm kind of surprised they talked more "pre 9/11." I can tell you that
a lot of interesting things "mysteriously" disappeared from various
places on the Web. 

One fascinating thing: the data packages for all the nuclear plants
used to be on the Web. Some of them were really interesting... like
the one that used bottles of high-pressure gas fired off by squibs to
to generate the pressure that borated the core in a SCRAM event. IIRC,
they only built one like that.

Guess nobody figured that anyone would consider making a threat to
destroy a major power line to extort money. I wondered in retrospect
why it has never happened; probably the people with enough brains to
pull it off weren't of criminal intent. Terrorism upsets that apple
cart.

>Where does Manhattan get its power?

There's almost no generating capacity in Manhattan... THAT much is
fairly well known.