..or the idiot behind the wheel so to speak..
Lester
On May 9, 2011, at 4:08 PM, an5.sprite at gmail.com wrote:
> It is not the spec that you engineered to that counts. It is the sequence of
events you did not expect that will then get you.
>
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lester <oldsaabguy at comcast.net>
> Sender: spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net
> Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 15:58:53
> To: Jim Johnson<bmwwxman at gmail.com>
> Cc: Spridgets list<spridgets at autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Re Renewable energy (off topic)
>
> Yup, a friend tried to get me to read a book, a title I can never remember,
> that goes on and on about man thinking that he has engineered to overcome
> nature and every damn time nature wins. The fact that we have not witnessed
a
> bigger earthquake or bigger tsunami or stronger tornado or hurricane does
NOT
> mean that it hasn't happened before or will not happen in the future.
>
> Design to 200% above the worst known natural problem to date and you will
be
> under designing.
>
> Lester
>
>
>
> On May 9, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Jim Johnson wrote:
>
>> True, Daniel.... But try to engineer a back-up power system of that
scale
>> that can withstand a 9.0 earthquake followed by a massive Tsunami within
>> hours. It's Murphy's Law... Whatever can go wrong will.
>>
>> Cheers!!
>> Jim
>>
>> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:58 PM, <WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That may be so. The cause of the Chernobyl accident was the running of
>>> an unauthorised test that went wrong. Ironically the test was to test
>>> emergency procedures due to loss of power to cooling pumps.
>>>
>>> Harrisburg, Three Mile Island - something to do with the cooling valves.
>>>
>>> Fukishima - failure of the cooling system due to loss of back-up power
> when
>>> the electricity failed.
>>>
>>>
>>> Seems to me the common theme to all these nuclear accidents lies in the
>>> design and backups for the cooling system.
>>>
>>> Weslake-Monza 1330
>>>
>>> In a message dated 09/05/2011 17:46:58 GMT Daylight Time,
>>> bmwwxman at gmail.com writes:
>>>
>>> Chernobyl was poorly designed and badly constructed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers!!
>> Jim Johnson
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