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   AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 08:58:48 JST AI6YR Ben

   • Chris Neklason

   @chris Very good question... I'm not sure how automatic all of that is.

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 08:58:47 JST AI6YR Ben

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     • Douglas
     • Chris Neklason

     @douglasvb @chris "generator" is just short for "usually does not work"

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 08:58:47 JST mark

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     • Douglas
     • Chris Neklason

     @ai6yr @douglasvb @chris this is so painful. I work at a place with constant confidence runs on the gens. Everything is always perfect. Until something happens to utility and we sit around trying to figure out why THAT case failed.

     Still better than remote tape backup

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     Douglas (douglasvb@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 08:58:48 JST Douglas

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     • Chris Neklason

     @ai6yr @chris even if most of it is intact, a control cable melting could be enough to disable the generators. Or a coax cable could melt and kill the transmitter. Or the AC in the comms bunker could fail. Or etc etc etc.

     For that matter, backup generators fail to work about 10% or more of the time. I've found that to be true across the nuclear power industry, hospitals, data centers, and the defense sector over the last 15 years.