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Blackstar
13-11-2007, 21:41
But i wish the sodding powercuts would stop. South Edinburgh has been suffering from a complete blackout (we have spontaneous moments of power).
Feek
13-11-2007, 21:56
What's the cause of that?

(don't say that it's lack of elastictrickery or I'll poke you)
Mark
13-11-2007, 21:59
Not me guv, honest. ;D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7093430.stm
Goose
13-11-2007, 22:02
Feek, the problem is the gradient. it takes lot of energy to push the electricity up hill, whereas it's easier to let it trickle down south.

:)

Sorry about your blackouts. Time for some looting?
Von Smallhausen
13-11-2007, 22:20
Think yourself lucky. Tyneside doesn't have electricity.
LeperousDust
13-11-2007, 22:34
I haven't had power for hours now, the university was totally blacked out from 5pmish until about 9pm, its becuase of the quartermile project and the new informatics building, they're crap!
jmc41
14-11-2007, 00:12
I wish work would lose power more often.

Normally it's just a 2 minute glitch that screws up whatever you are working on and means working o/t to correct it. Been years since we had a proper 'multi-hour' blackout that meant leaving early!
Garp
14-11-2007, 08:27
I wish work would lose power more often.

*ferverently prays work never loses power*

Black August last year saw us lose power in a suite we use in Telehouse for just over half a day, despite all the ridiculous number of redundant power supplies and stuff data centres have. The impact was phenomenal, and the work required to recover certain things stunning (by bad timing we'd had some important equipment fail and were about half way through data recovery when the power cut hit)
jmc41
14-11-2007, 19:27
Yeah, I guess I didn't really think that one through. Short term gain, long term pain :s
Dr. Z
15-11-2007, 12:09
Had a big outage here the night before we went on air. Heart-in-mouth moment, that!
karbon
16-11-2007, 15:09
my work had a power cut the other day.... someone drilled through a power cable in the basement.
jmc41
16-11-2007, 19:19
my work had a power cut the other day.... someone drilled through a power cable in the basement.

ROFL, I love it. Lucky the guy didn't get fried.
karbon
16-11-2007, 22:50
he may have done, none of our facilities people could confirm or deny either way....
Blackstar
20-11-2007, 00:00
It happened again! But only in the George Square area of the uni this time. Missed a lecture and a tutorial. Can't say it was all bad.
Pheebs
20-11-2007, 08:38
Feek, the problem is the gradient. it takes lot of energy to push the electricity up hill, whereas it's easier to let it trickle down south.

My line of thought whilst reading the above...

*gradient? Eh?...*
*...NO WAY!!? What about people up hills? I never knew slopeyness affected electr...*
*wwaaaaaaaaait a minute....*
*"trickle down south"? But we're not all down hill...and and...*
*SCANDALOUS MONKEY!*
*bah. Smeg to Goose for tricking you, dear brain, into thinking weird things about physics.*

For a split second....

;D

Boo to power cuts. I would be very sad if we had a power cut. *big hugs to BS* Burn stuff to keep things bright! Wooo! ;D
Tak
20-11-2007, 08:48
Apparently Fareham had a powercut the other day (BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7100433.stm))

Hate to think what would happen if we had a powercut at work :/