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[RAIST]

DailyYomiuri TEPCO says it will not implement planned power cuts for the remainder of today. The 1st outage for Group 1 tomorrow will occur as scheduled.
9 minutes ago

They just reported hitting 37MW peak though while still in a blackout... odd

<cross your fingers>

[Deadlyscorpion]

<cross your fingers>

Do you think they would risk having the servers on today for a few hours, perhaps for a day or two, and then have to turn them off if things get worse? I get the impression that since they're already committed to not charge for the rest of the month that they're just going to keep the servers off for at least a week more. Of course that's just speculation on my part, but I figure that the integrity of the server files is more important than anything else, I doubt they'll risk turning on the server in the event of an unexpected power failure due to overload, if that's even possible.

I can't really speak much since I don't fully understand how all that stuff works, but just judging by the way they're treating having one plant out of 53 others down affects the rest of the power being supplied to the country, I assume that there's not enough power to go around and that's why the planned outtages are being implemented, and if that's true, wouldn't that mean that if too much power is being consumed and there's not enough supply to meet the demand that it will cause an overload and shut down completely? I know I'm going in circles but I'm trying to make sense of why there are so many nuclear plants in Japan and yet one being down causes all this trouble, all the destruction problems aside of course.

[Bloomingodsname]

Do you think they would risk having the servers on today for a few hours, perhaps for a day or two, and then have to turn them off if things get worse? I get the impression that since they're already committed to not charge for the rest of the month that they're just going to keep the servers off for at least a week more. Of course that's just speculation on my part, but I figure that the integrity of the server files is more important than anything else, I doubt they'll risk turning on the server in the event of an unexpected power failure due to overload, if that's even possible.

I can't really speak much since I don't fully understand how all that stuff works, but just judging by the way they're treating having one plant out of 53 others down affects the rest of the power being supplied to the country, I assume that there's not enough power to go around and that's why the planned outtages are being implemented, and if that's true, wouldn't that mean that if too much power is being consumed and there's not enough supply to meet the demand that it will cause an overload and shut down completely? I know I'm going in circles but I'm trying to make sense of why there are so many nuclear plants in Japan and yet one being down causes all this trouble, all the destruction problems aside of course.

not sure on this either...but from what I've gathered the 1 power plant supplies most of Tokyo with power...it being down causes troubles in places like hospitals so to try to keep the hospitals with power they're doing outage waves in the other areas so that as ppl need the hospitals they can at least hope to count on the hospital nearest them being with power...

as for the servers...I'm thinking that once the power gets regulated that SE is gonna keep the servers down another day or so to be safe...kinda like a computer you usually unplug a computer in a bad storm to prevent the frying of the motherboard and thus the loosing of data on the computer...so if the servers are seen as a computer I think SE would keep them shut down to prevent the "frying" of the server info...

[annewandering]

Do you think they would risk having the servers on today for a few hours, perhaps for a day or two, and then have to turn them off if things get worse? I get the impression that since they're already committed to not charge for the rest of the month that they're just going to keep the servers off for at least a week more. Of course that's just speculation on my part, but I figure that the integrity of the server files is more important than anything else, I doubt they'll risk turning on the server in the event of an unexpected power failure due to overload, if that's even possible.

I can't really speak much since I don't fully understand how all that stuff works, but just judging by the way they're treating having one plant out of 53 others down affects the rest of the power being supplied to the country, I assume that there's not enough power to go around and that's why the planned outtages are being implemented, and if that's true, wouldn't that mean that if too much power is being consumed and there's not enough supply to meet the demand that it will cause an overload and shut down completely? I know I'm going in circles but I'm trying to make sense of why there are so many nuclear plants in Japan and yet one being down causes all this trouble, all the destruction problems aside of course.

Well actually six are down out of what? something like 55? The 55 provide 30+% of the power in the country. Now along with those, part of the other power sources are down too. They are getting those back up as well but since they arent radioactive they arent getting the media attention.
Oh and the country was on the edge in energy consumption before anything happened. They had plans to put two more reactors in business in April I believe.

[Deadlyscorpion]

Well actually six are down out of what? something like 55? The 55 provide 30+% of the power in the country. Now along with those, part of the other power sources are down too. They are getting those back up as well but since they arent radioactive they arent getting the media attention.

Wait, what? Six plants generate 30% of the power to the country? Where does the other 70% come from!?

[Sesono]

Wait, what? Six plants generate 30% of the power to the country? Where does the other 70% come from!?

Oil? Coal? Gas? Water? Wind? Sun? ...

[Deadlyscorpion]

Oil? Coal? Gas? Water? Wind? Sun? ...

no. all the reactors provide 30+% of the nations energy needs.
I believe the rest were provided in the standard ways like coal and oil. maybe gas? There are websites that address all this. Just google and you can find them easily enough.
bravenewclimate.com might have it.

I thought they just had to reopen 11 coal mines because they were phasing them out. So how does that work, I'm mighty confused. I don't know why I had this crazy idea that like the numbers were the other way around, 70% Nuclear and 30% alternative hehe.

[annewandering]

I thought they just had to reopen 11 coal mines because they were phasing them out. So how does that work, I'm mighty confused. I don't know why I had this crazy idea that like the numbers were the other way around, 70% Nuclear and 30% alternative hehe.

Probably the media hype. You would think the whole country would be without power till they build new plants if you just listened to them.

[annewandering]

Wait, what? Six plants generate 30% of the power to the country? Where does the other 70% come from!?

no. all the reactors provide 30+% of the nations energy needs.
I believe the rest were provided in the standard ways like coal and oil. maybe gas? There are websites that address all this. Just google and you can find them easily enough.
bravenewclimate.com might have it.