Can anybody add anything?
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August 13, 2014 at 12:06am
This comment has just come in from a regular reader:
Something is definitely not OK at the Delimara power station. I’m told that the Chinese people who were “working” there packed up and left abruptly.
Can anyone here add some valid information about this piece of heartening news?
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I didn’t know there were Chinese people working there. What has happened to the power station?
Id-dawl taghna lkoll.
U d-dlam ukoll.
Le, habib. Id-dlam taghna lkoll – id-dawl taghhom biss.
Publishing of contracts imminent
Looks like we’re in for some blame game.
Konrad Mizzi is said to be working together with China on a back-up system to cater for power station breakdown. Namely, 100,000 Chinese based in the Freeport area
In event of power outage, Konrad calls out HAI!, they all raise their hands in unison and, Presto. Many hands make light work.
Perhaps having black-outs is the ONLY sure way for Muscat to keep his promise re reduced electricity bills!!
Il-blackout zgur li Taghna Lkoll. L unika haga li hi Taghna Lkoll
That photo is not of one of the power stations, but of Marsa South distribution Centre, which is in the Marsa Industrial Estate behind the Turkish Cemetery. At this centre and explosion took place.
I suppose we’ll have to wait for the usual twisted version of facts, then we can assume that the truth is exactly the opposite of what was stated.
And the usual threats of an ‘enquiry’ and that ‘those responsible will be held accountable’ bla bla bla… Usual national socialism to keep the Labour extremists quiet until they forget all about it.
L-Enemalta mhux anarkija Laburista, x’tistenna hadd ma jrid jaghmel xejn?
I hear they ran out of cats….
I don’t know if the old Marsa Generating Station is still operating as a power adjunct to the Delimara Generating Station but here goes my armchair quarterbacking from a continent away:
If they placed an extra alternator on line to meet demand at Delimara and mis-judged the phase frequency match of the other alternators, a transient spike can be sent down the lines that can have terrible consequences to sub-station transformers down the line.
That is part of the reason of why very large and expensive capacitors are in series with the transmission lines after every stretch of good distance when transporting high tension power long ways away, to phase frequency match other power station output in places like in North America and the European continent.
Because in long distance power distribution you cannot guarantee 100% phase matching with separate distant generating stations all the time and every time.
But it has to be done, as large sub-stations would start to disintegrate in a very dramatic like what happened here at this Marsa distribution centre.
High tension power can do some very strange things and it is a whole engineering field ( or world ) on to its self, with its own strict rules. Mistakes are usually very catastrophic, unfortunately deadly and very costly in material terms.
Just my two cents on the matter.
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