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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 16 February | 66 comments (66 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Living Off the Planet (none / 0)
looking in here

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=480200&page=774

it looks like TEPCO saved money by buying cheap thermocouples, 2 wire rather than 4 wire, and the insulation has finally failed on those 2 wires, and that has resulted in themo-electric effects causing random extra ammounts of electricity, reading out at the control room as fluctuating heat.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Feb 15th, 2012 at 07:32:37 PM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 16 February | 66 comments (66 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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