[GTALUG] mysterious restarts

[Russell Reiter]

> As a director (again) of that project, I'm glad you like it, and I
> appreciate that you're not blaming your outages on it. I'd be more
> likely to attribute them to the Strachan substation, which is under
> colossal pressure from all the new condo builds. The city is trying to
> build a relief line and new substation capacity, but getting past
> objections is tough.

I always thought it a shame that the windmill was only used to generate
hydrogen for the hybrid fleet. It would have been nice to have it feed the
grid, although I'm not sure if that has changed since I last read the
plaque at the base of it.

>
> The wind turbine has a rather nice AC (variable frequency)-DC-AC (60 Hz)
> inverter. I imagine the new streetcars have something similar.

I believe that some pantographic transportation corridors hop between AC
and DC using similar tech.

It would have been nice if Smartrack could have been realized along those
lines.

However, I think everyone but the mayor's team recognized track gauge
matching between any kind of urban LRT and the GO corridor would be
problematic among all the other electrification issues.

>
> On DC, New York retired its last DC infrastructure only a few years ago.
> The very last few DC customers now have rectifiers installed in their
> basements, but are still charged the absurdly high DC metering price for
> their power. I'm led to believe these are heritage buildings with
> historic elevators and lighting which can't be replaced and remain
> within code without tearing everything out.
>
> cheers,
>  Stewart
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