Dancing starling spectacle caused power cuts in Scottish village (2020)
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Re: Dancing starling spectacle caused power cuts in Scottish village (2020)
#2Well, there seems to be no trees there, so the starlings are sitting on the power lines because no choice.
Re: Dancing starling spectacle caused power cuts in Scottish village (2020)
#3> He said the firm would work with RSPB Scotland to find ways to discourage the birds from the power lines.
Or just maybe install some plastic spacing rods in the effected stretch to prevent the wires clashing.
Re: Dancing starling spectacle caused power cuts in Scottish village (2020)
#4> He said the firm would work with RSPB Scotland to find ways to discourage the birds from the power lines. Or just maybe install some plastic spacing rods in the effected stretch to prevent the wires clashing.
> Install some plastic spacing rods in the effected stretch...
No! Nature is the enemy! We can't let birds around the cables. They're fake anyway! /s.
Re: Dancing starling spectacle caused power cuts in Scottish village (2020)
#5What makes me slightly angry is the supplier saying they don't know what is causing it when all they had to do was go there and look!
That is my biggest gripe with corporates and bureaucracies, they talk a lot when a simple bit of action would nip something in the bud! We have become feaful people who would rather write an email than call somebody or go and see them in-person.
Re: Dancing starling spectacle caused power cuts in Scottish village (2020)
#6What makes me slightly angry is the supplier saying they don't know what is causing it when all they had to do was go there and look! That is my biggest gripe with corporates and bureaucracies, they talk a lot when a simple bit of action would nip something in the bud! We have become feaful people who would rather write an email than call somebody or go and see them in-person.
Go where? Chances are there’s quite a few km of power lines in sometimes badly reachable places to inspect.
Also, given that the interruptions were intermittent, it wouldn’t just be a matter of checking the power lines once.
I also don’t rule out they have fairly good stats on causes of intermittent short power interruptions, and looked at more likely causes first.
I don’t think there is enough info in this article to put blame this way.
Re: Dancing starling spectacle caused power cuts in Scottish village (2020)
#7What makes me slightly angry is the supplier saying they don't know what is causing it when all they had to do was go there and look! That is my biggest gripe with corporates and bureaucracies, they talk a lot when a simple bit of action would nip something in the bud! We have become feaful people who would rather write an email than call somebody or go and see them in-person.
Go where? Chances are there’s quite a few km of power lines in sometimes badly reachable places to inspect. Also, given that the interruptions were intermittent, it wouldn’t just be a matter of checking the power lines once. I also don’t rule out they have fairly good stats on causes of intermittent short power interruptions, and looked at more likely causes first. I don’t think there is enough info in this article t…
It's true it might be inaccessible and that they have telemetry. But if the issue is recurring and you find no solution in the data you gotta walk the line. In fact this time it was the solution but ill grant you its an unlikely event. So you are both right? In medicine you always ALWAYS perform visual inspection of the site no matter how sure you are.
Re: Dancing starling spectacle caused power cuts in Scottish village (2020)
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Go where? Chances are there’s quite a few km of power lines in sometimes badly reachable places to inspect. Also, given that the interruptions were intermittent, it wouldn’t just be a matter of checking the power lines once. I also don’t rule out they have fairly good stats on causes of intermittent short power interruptions, and looked at more likely causes first. I don’t think there is enough info in this article t…
It's true it might be inaccessible and that they have telemetry. But if the issue is recurring and you find no solution in the data you gotta walk the line. In fact this time it was the solution but ill grant you its an unlikely event. So you are both right? In medicine you always ALWAYS perform visual inspection of the site no matter how sure you are.
If a short happens on the line in theory if they can measure the amount current they can figure out the resistance and how far down the line to go.
Re: Dancing starling spectacle caused power cuts in Scottish village (2020)
#9Why is there a powercut? Because there was a tweet-storm.
Re: Dancing starling spectacle caused power cuts in Scottish village (2020)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Go where? Chances are there’s quite a few km of power lines in sometimes badly reachable places to inspect. Also, given that the interruptions were intermittent, it wouldn’t just be a matter of checking the power lines once. I also don’t rule out they have fairly good stats on causes of intermittent short power interruptions, and looked at more likely causes first. I don’t think there is enough info in this article t…
It's true it might be inaccessible and that they have telemetry. But if the issue is recurring and you find no solution in the data you gotta walk the line. In fact this time it was the solution but ill grant you its an unlikely event. So you are both right? In medicine you always ALWAYS perform visual inspection of the site no matter how sure you are.
I live in rural Scotland and we had a mild problem with our electricity supply - our lights were flickering slightly, nobody else noticed but it was really annoying me.
I contacted the electricity supplier and they had a team come out within 24 hours - which rather surprised me. Turns out there was arcing at a junction box in the supply outside of our property which they fixed pretty quickly - presumably they react to things like that promptly due to potential fire risks.