Uninterruptible 1916
Another 1916 item, this one mentioning Spokane:
The outer structure survived through decades of dereliction, and now serves as
Steam Plant Square, a fancy eatery for rich folks.
What caught my attention was this sentence: "...the service will be safeguarded by a large storage battery plant, which will supply emergency service."
Modern utilities are struggling with the "need" to install massive storage solely to satisfy the EPA Terrorist Army's extortionate demands for ooooooooh-so-pretty windmills to kill millions of bats and birds. Bugs will then multiply uncontrollably and destroy the forests, and EPA can then blame "global warming" for the dead forests. It all makes perfect sense if you're a psychopathic wacked-out genocidal terrorist.
Back in sane times, utilities provided storage to
protect their own paying human customers from outages.
Labels: Carbon Cult