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Fatal Explosion At Russian Hydroelectric Dam
stadium writes "An oil-filled transformer exploded at the Sayano-Shushenskaya power plant in Siberia, destroying three turbines and bringing down the ceiling of the turbine hall, which then violently flooded. The dam itself did not sustain any damage. It is unclear how many people were killed, but with 12 confirmed deaths and as many as 64 still missing (all presumed dead), this is a serious incident. The huge transformer had enough oil in it to produce a three-mile-long oil spill slowly moving downriver. BBC News reports with three separate videos. The dam produces a quarter of the total energy of RusHydro (whose stock thus took a steep dive at London Stock Exchange) and also feeds the world's largest aluminum smelter. The damages will take years to repair."
The transformer was a Decepticon.
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Isn't this news from yesterday?
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In soviet russia, hydroelectric damns YOU.
Glenn Beck says Hydro Dams are death panels and will kill grandma.
It isn't the volts, but the amps that will kill you.
Or it might have been the explosion.
I don't think this one was due to amps. There were no bands set up on stage at the time of the accident.
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Apparently this installation contained enormous quantities of DHMO as a coolant and working medium. We need to protest their excessive reliance on DHMO. This disaster is just one more proof that DHMO is a dangerous material that needs more regulation.
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From the BBC article:
From the summary:
Apparently the exchange rate between countries is so bad these days that a few months just doesn't last nearly as much as it once did.
My power just came back on.
I'll say one thing for the Russians, when they have a disaster they have a really big, proper, all-out disaster. They don't do things by half there, unlike the half-assed yanks with their Three-Mile Island and whatnot.
It may be the amps that kill you, but the voltage is the bus they take to work.
Nothing to say here... move along
They why don't they figure out a way to put a roof on top of the reservoir to limit the evaporation?
I don't think you're familiar with the size of Lake Powell. It's 26,000 sq mi, or roughly 27 million Libraries of Congress.
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Agreed, I zapped a buddy with a 50,000v aftermarket one by accident... and while it made him jump farther than I've ever seen him move in less than 1/2 second he's still around to not laugh at it :)
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Long term addiction. It's not easy to kick that stuff y'know!
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And so the circle closes: My grandma has a deadly pan with a handle and would like to kill Glenn Beck.
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In this video, it appears that there is a guy running toward the explosion. Is this playing backwards?
Have gnu, will travel.
since DHMO is the major contributor to global warming.
If we had just enacted Kyoto this tragedy could have been averted.
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