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| From | ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) |
| Date | 2025-05-05 17:48 +0000 |
| Organization | loft |
| Message-ID | <m7sbuqF14iiU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <vuo555$3hm82$1@dont-email.me> <878qng26zh.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> <slrn1017nh0.1b6ti.lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> <vvasvl$2nr$1@reader1.panix.com> |
In article <vvasvl$2nr$1@reader1.panix.com>, David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> wrote: > >On 2025-05-01, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote: > >> What do you do if you have a cold ship, nothing running at all, no >> shore power, no electricity, no steam? > >In the case of a Liberty Ship, such as the John W. Brown in Baltimore, >the answer is you go nowhere. There is a ?6"? pipe fitting on its side to >go to an adjacent ship to transfer live steam between them to jump-start >the dead one. > >U-boats had an electric motor driven compressor and a free-piston Diesel >compressor; the former obviously needs battery power, the latter compressed air >to start. >-- >A host is a host from coast to coast...............wb8foz@panix.com >& no one will talk to a host that's close.......................... >Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 >is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 There is a whole youtube genre of starting old & large engines. Diesel locomotives use the compressed air thing, the British Field Marshal tractor uses a shotgun shell, a Rumley Oil Pull tractor has the farmer jump up and down on the flywheel, hot-bulb engines use a blowtorch... -- columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..
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Re: Low traffic "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-04-29 22:41 +0200
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Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-30 19:59 +0000
Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-28 20:18 +0000
Re: Low traffic "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-04-28 22:33 +0200
Re: Low traffic Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2025-04-28 18:17 -0300
Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-29 20:00 +0200
Re: Low traffic Peter Flass -- Iron Spring Software <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-04-30 03:39 +0000
Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-30 20:00 +0000
Re: Low traffic Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2025-05-01 02:52 -0300
Re: Low traffic songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2025-04-28 18:01 -0400
Re: Low traffic Thomas Prufer <prufer.public@mnet-online.de.invalid> - 2025-04-29 08:17 +0200
Re: Low traffic Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-29 02:33 +0000
Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-29 20:14 +0200
Re: Low traffic John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-04-29 12:06 -0700
Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-30 01:22 +0000
Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-30 08:43 +0200
Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-30 20:28 +0000
Re: Low traffic Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-05-01 04:45 +0000
Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-01 21:12 +0200
Power plant cold start (Re: Low traffic) Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-01 20:57 +0000
Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-02 01:23 +0000
Re: Low traffic Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2025-05-02 19:01 -0300
Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-03 05:59 +0000
Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-01 21:23 +0200
Re: Low traffic Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-05-01 21:22 +0100
Re: Low traffic Thomas Prufer <prufer.public@mnet-online.de.invalid> - 2025-05-02 21:02 +0200
Re: Low traffic Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2025-04-30 09:13 +0000
Re: Low traffic scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-04-30 13:23 +0000
Re: Low traffic Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-05-01 17:52 +0100
Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-01 21:13 +0200
Re: Low traffic Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2025-05-01 03:13 -0300
Re: Low traffic Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2025-05-01 14:48 +0000
Re: Low traffic Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-01 20:50 +0000
Re: Low traffic Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2025-05-01 14:52 +0000
Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-01 21:37 +0200
Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-02 01:27 +0000
Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-02 23:10 +0200
Re: Low traffic rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-05-03 05:47 +0000
Re: Low traffic "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-03 14:02 +0200
Re: Low traffic Peter Flass -- Iron Spring Software <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-05-05 22:25 +0000
Re: Low traffic anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> - 2025-05-15 15:12 +0000
Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> - 2025-05-01 20:48 +0000
Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2025-05-05 17:36 +0000
Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2025-05-05 17:48 +0000
Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2025-05-05 17:58 +0000
Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2025-05-05 20:20 +0000
Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-05 22:55 +0200
Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-05-05 18:53 +0000
Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2025-05-05 23:15 +0000
Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2025-05-06 02:10 +0000
Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-06 11:35 +0200
Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2025-05-06 10:40 +0000
Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-06 12:59 +0200
Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2025-05-06 12:14 +0000
Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-06 14:27 +0200
Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2025-05-06 13:43 +0000
Re: Cold starting power plants (Re: Low traffic) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-05-06 18:38 +0000
Re: Low traffic Peter Flass -- Iron Spring Software <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-04-30 03:41 +0000
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