Power outage at Cougar Ridge

[lazypucker]

Anyone nearby experincing the same thing?

[Fuzz]

https://outages.enmax.com/portal/


None in Calgary reported.

[lazypucker]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

https://outages.enmax.com/portal/


None in Calgary reported.

2 hours to fix? WTF

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by lazypucker

2 hours to fix? WTF

Who knows what happened? Someone could have driven into a power pole, or something major exploded. I'm not sure 2 hours is unreasonable...

[Aleks]

Originally Posted by lazypucker

Anyone nearby experincing the same thing?

Yup I'm out in paskapoo as is the whole community

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[Ducay]

Originally Posted by lazypucker

2 hours to fix? WTF

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Who knows what happened? Someone could have driven into a power pole, or something major exploded. I'm not sure 2 hours is unreasonable...

Ya, should thank your lucky stars it is only around 2 hours. House will retain sufficient heat it shouldn't be a big deal. Could be much worse

[MRCboicgy]

Maybe another cold front rolled thru Texas

[PaperBagger'14]

There was damaged infrastructure on this outage, and it was fixed pretty quickly. Even though power outages suck, because of technology, the outage was contained to under 2k people for only a few hours. Thankfully its not too cold out for those affected

[lazypucker]

Pardon my lack of handyman knowledge, but how come when the electricity is out, we are losing heat because the furnace stops working? Isn't the furnace run with natural gas?

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by lazypucker

Pardon my lack of handyman knowledge, but how come when the electricity is out, we are losing heat because the furnace stops working? Isn't the furnace run with natural gas?

There are all sorts of electric controls in the furnace. Even the igniter. Also, the blower motor.

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

There are all sorts of electric controls in the furnace. Even the igniter. Also, the blower motor.

It's worth a few hundred to buy a small generator for emergency's, A gas furnace only needs 500-600 watts to run

[Locke]

Suffering is just part of the Human Condition.

[Harry Lime]

Your sacrifice will sustain us all through the winter. Songs will be sung, legends will be written. In hushed voices, as the darkness creeps in, children will hold close their pets for warmth, listening to the calming heartbeat through thick fur and whisper, "Remember Cougar Ridge."

[flamesfever]

Has anyone on this site purchased one of those large gas driven generators that would restore all the electricity required in the house, should there be an extended period in which the power is out?

It seems to me, that if in the future a large part of our grid includes renewables, that the system will be more vulnerable to blackouts, and the large generators mentioned above will become much more commonplace.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

Your sacrifice will sustain us all through the winter. Songs will be sung, legends will be written. In hushed voices, as the darkness creeps in, children will hold close their pets for warmth, listening to the calming heartbeat through thick fur and whisper, "Remember Cougar Ridge."

This is The Way.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by flamesfever

Has anyone on this site purchased one of those large gas driven generators that would restore all the electricity required in the house, should there be an extended period in which the power is out?

It seems to me, that if in the future a large part of our grid includes renewables, that the system will be more vulnerable to blackouts, and the large generators mentioned above will become much more commonplace.

If we are planning our grid around individual generators to cover the times we get blackouts from renewables, we may as well just give up right now.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

If we are planning our grid around individual generators to cover the times we get blackouts from renewables, we may as well just give up right now.

Thats not really the impression I got from his comment but yeah....

[Locke]

Fare thee well Cougar Ridge....we hardly knew ye....

[flamesfever]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

If we are planning our grid around individual generators to cover the times we get blackouts from renewables, we may as well just give up right now.

It's not a matter of planning our grid around individual generators, it's a matter of planning our grid around renewables. If then, at some time in the future, a large part of our grid includes renewables, and the power generated therefrom hasn't sufficient storeage capability, then my little mind says the grid may be more vulnerable to power outages. Although maybe that is not the case, as I know very little as to how the power system works.

However, if I have a legitimate concern, and blackouts happen more frequently because of the increased renewables, it's every man for himself, and it may be prudent to install a large gas driven generator.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by flamesfever

It's not a matter of planning our grid around individual generators, it's a matter of planning our grid around renewables. If then, at some time in the future, a large part of our grid includes renewables, and the power generated therefrom hasn't sufficient storeage capability, then my little mind says the grid may be more vulnerable to power outages. Although maybe that is not the case, as I know very little as to how the power system works.

However, if I have a legitimate concern, and blackouts happen more frequently because of the increased renewables, it's every man for himself, and it may be prudent to install a large gas driven generator.

I guess that's my point. If our grid becomes so fragile that only the wealthy can maintain power regularly, while the rest suffer in the dark, we've failed massively.

So you either have a situation where we build a stable grid that costs more, but has no need for individual systems, or you build a delicate grid that forces everyone to look out for themselves, installing dirty generators, marginalizing the poor, and generally massively decreasing efficiencies of scale, well, I can tell you which one I'd prefer we pursue. If it means once every 5 years I have to go 6 hours without power, I'm ok with that. I'm not going to buy a $1000 generator for that scenario. I've been here 15 years and the 6 hour thing has happened once.

This is basically why we need to replace all the coal plants with gas(or, nuclear, LOL), and any renewables only count above our maximum consumption, so you never find yourself out of power because of wind failing to blow. We will see of our leaders are smart enough to figure that out...