Very cool to see the multiple uses of drones. Telecom uses them for antenna inspections and even home inspectors don't need to climb on my roofs now....
Quit watching at 2 minutes.This was an engineering video but a flea brain attention span. Spend long enough on each scene to appreciate the techniques.
Why AC instead of DC? DC much less resistence. Bum Crack Hydro suspicious conduct. Why can't Vancouver Island generate their own power? You replaced the DC submarine cables with AC but I don't remember public input.
Rivers dry up so that takes hydro out of the picture. There would have to be a major shake up of government to force BC hydro to allow tidal bore power generation to occur at Mudge Island without it turning into that Run of River cash grab for Plutonic Power selling power for 40 years back to the grid at 65c/kWh when the going selling price was 6.5c/kWh and now about 11c. But BC Hydro always was about the sweetheart deal (Thank You Gordon Campbell) ever since they went for coffee with Enron and decided to screw PGE changing their outlook from "The People's Power" with E+ Metering of surplus power to Two Tiered Billing and soon to be Time of Day Billing which they said they would never institute when they were ramming their smart meters down everybody's throats. I would never be for privatizing them but they sure do need reforming.
You’d need rectifiers all over, not sure what the cost vs the loss from just running ac over long distances is. Another thing to consider is space because I’m sure rectifiers for 500kv isn’t small.
I was at the Duncan substation. The setup was massive. We saw big circuit boards the size of a squished flat side to side Cooper Mini with a gallon jug of mercury right in the centre of it. There were a few of them in a stand all with big arcing tracks from one side to the other. They were buying spare parts from a dam in the USSR (I think it was Georgia) as there were none available elsewhere. The cables were leaking oil. This is in Duncan. The frequency filter yard was massive chopping that square wave to something a lot more sinusoidal. It was failing, too expensive to run. They built the Cheekye / Dunsmuir AC Line for redundancy before the Delta / Duncan HVDC line failed. After that I lost track of it. Wonder why Wayne thinks they should have talked to him about replacing a failing HVDC powerline? Perhaps he owned property in the rights of way they forced through Delta when they were building its replacement. In rereading I see that Youngsta0 's comment was more general about a 500KVA DC transmission line vs an AC one not specifically related to the Delta/Duncan one that I construed Wayne was referring to specifically, which he wasn't. BC Hydro doesn't generate power on Vancouver Island by mid summer because the rivers are short, fed by melting snow pack and they need to keep the water flowing in the rivers to keep the fish fry from dying of overheating or just plain keeping enough water in the river so the fish don't get stranded. Plus the Municipalities need the water in the reservoirs to dispense to their water wasting populations at Stage 3 and 4 restricted levels. There's not enough water left over for power generation releases. Here is more information. I'm not sure which pole we (the Camosun College's Electrical Trades graduation class of 1992 were looking at. I was mightily impressed by the size of the circuit boards and what had happened to them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Vancouver_Island
Great job!
It was cool being a part of this. Once in a lifetime experience. Awesome bunch of guys. I still think you guys are nuts.... LOL
Very cool to see the multiple uses of drones. Telecom uses them for antenna inspections and even home inspectors don't need to climb on my roofs now....
Good job guys,
Cool to see this! It was great to meet the team and be able to assist with some of your pilot certification needs towards this project.
Well done, great video.❤
How are things?. Yeah,very unreal picture- peace out-)
How much weight can a drone carry?
Quit watching at 2 minutes.This was an engineering video but a flea brain attention span. Spend long enough on each scene to appreciate the techniques.
Why AC instead of DC?
DC much less resistence.
Bum Crack Hydro suspicious conduct.
Why can't Vancouver Island generate their own power?
You replaced the DC submarine cables with AC but I don't remember public input.
Rivers dry up so that takes hydro out of the picture.
There would have to be a major shake up of government to force BC hydro to allow tidal bore power generation to occur at Mudge Island without it turning into that Run of River cash grab for Plutonic Power selling power for 40 years back to the grid at 65c/kWh when the going selling price was 6.5c/kWh and now about 11c.
But BC Hydro always was about the sweetheart deal (Thank You Gordon Campbell) ever since they went for coffee with Enron and decided to screw PGE changing their outlook from "The People's Power" with E+ Metering of surplus power to Two Tiered Billing and soon to be Time of Day Billing which they said they would never institute when they were ramming their smart meters down everybody's throats.
I would never be for privatizing them but they sure do need reforming.
You’d need rectifiers all over, not sure what the cost vs the loss from just running ac over long distances is. Another thing to consider is space because I’m sure rectifiers for 500kv isn’t small.
I was at the Duncan substation. The setup was massive. We saw big circuit boards the size of a squished flat side to side Cooper Mini with a gallon jug of mercury right in the centre of it. There were a few of them in a stand all with big arcing tracks from one side to the other.
They were buying spare parts from a dam in the USSR (I think it was Georgia) as there were none available elsewhere. The cables were leaking oil. This is in Duncan. The frequency filter yard was massive chopping that square wave to something a lot more sinusoidal.
It was failing, too expensive to run. They built the Cheekye / Dunsmuir AC Line for redundancy before the Delta / Duncan HVDC line failed. After that I lost track of it.
Wonder why Wayne thinks they should have talked to him about replacing a failing HVDC powerline? Perhaps he owned property in the rights of way they forced through Delta when they were building its replacement.
In rereading I see that Youngsta0 's comment was more general about a 500KVA DC transmission line vs an AC one not specifically related to the Delta/Duncan one that I construed Wayne was referring to specifically, which he wasn't. BC Hydro doesn't generate power on Vancouver Island by mid summer because the rivers are short, fed by melting snow pack and they need to keep the water flowing in the rivers to keep the fish fry from dying of overheating or just plain keeping enough water in the river so the fish don't get stranded. Plus the Municipalities need the water in the reservoirs to dispense to their water wasting populations at Stage 3 and 4 restricted levels. There's not enough water left over for power generation releases.
Here is more information. I'm not sure which pole we (the Camosun College's Electrical Trades graduation class of 1992 were looking at. I was mightily impressed by the size of the circuit boards and what had happened to them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Vancouver_Island
Why don’t you apply to work at BC Hydro since you seem to know so much champ?! 😂 always a conspiracy somewhere for you nut jobs isn’t it.