More on Hoover Dam Explosion: It's Happening
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Looks like an air-handling unit caught fire. This is the result of poor maintenance. If a bearing gets too hot, it can ignite the oil used to lubricate it. I've seen this happen many times, especially on big wind turbines.
Sure it does. My fam works in engineering on power plants, and this is not only something that utilities spend money daily to prevent with software that predicts when you should do maintenance, if you don't do said maintenance it can result in fines or investigations.
Except they can’t find people to do the maintenance work, so the maintenance isn’t getting done.
Source: first hand report from a guy who does business with most of the major players in the food processing industry.
Or, somebody just blowed up a highly secure facility. Either way, if that footage is real, it continues habbening.
Your “software to predict maintenance” is a reminder that you set up on a daily, weekly, monthly, bi-annual and annual schedule. You may have a family member who is in the know, but I’m an Industrial maintenance engineer tech. I work on stuff like this daily.
Any facility caught past their service Interevals is out of compliance with their ISO guidelines and can result in fines and investigation, not so much the latter.
Here you have a fire outside of the building in a staging zone. If you zoom in, the fire is actually very small, it was something that ignited and flash pointed very quickly, likely because of an o2 accelerant.
Oh my lord I have to respond to that... I personally wrote softare for a company that was later aquired by Honeywell. We installed vibration sensors, and tempurature sensors, we wrote drivers to send the data from the sensors to PCS's, the data then went to IP21 and PI realtime historian databases. The data then went to an analytics engine which would alert operators if anything went out of normal operating specs.... we would then send emails / text messages / etc to everyone to recommend emergency maintenance BEFORE things blew up... This was exactly 22 years.... now they use machine learning to get even more precise detections. If something fails in a plant today, a human CHOSE to ignore alerts OR sabatoged things.
That’s completely different than what was stated. Anyone can look at a fucking HMI and see an alarm code Jack.
You took a really long winded way of saying you worked on PLC and softnet controllers.
Honeywell? You do realize HW focuses on gas and burner controllers right?? You see very many gas lines running around the dam boss?
An explosion happened where an explosion would happen. This is nothing to be excited about.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation stated that around 10 a.m. local time, a transformer at the dam caught fire and was extinguished a half hour later.
Amusing how people i the videos say "The ground is shaking" while they are on the dam walkway with a fire and explosion below..... um..... maybe get off of the dam?
When has this ever happened at a hydroelectric dam?
This kind of explosion would be shocking and rare if it happened at a far more "controversial" kind of plant such as nuclear.
That is a tiny fire compared to the size of the installation.
This is likely just something to keep us talking. Super small isolated fire in the staging zone. Nothing significant to see here. I’ve lit farts bigger than this.
Industrial maintenance engineer tech here, I see no issues of large scale destruction.
What’s happening? A transformer exploded? Happens all the time.
Looks like a full flow.
So... does this qualify as "Watch the water"
The Hoover Dam is a Simpsons meme.
Sacrificial plaque
https://tataandhoward.com/four-haunted-dams-united-states/
The Flood
Interesting side note: **Cover the head of the man on the plaque and you see
The Minotaur Pose **
of Black Dahlia/Mann Ray infamy. A powerful symbol of destruction.
Caution: contains image unfit for work or child viewing
https://stevehodel.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/MinotaurElizcompare300-1024x291.jpg
It's hard to tell from the clip but that kind of looks like a row of transformers and those fuckers blow up all the time. Literally a sliver of aluminum shaving bridging a connection will fuck it up. I don't think this is the big deal you think it is.