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14 February 2001, 09:55 PM
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Way off topic 
The Met Office are relocating to Exeter from their current site in Bracknell (yippee!)
One of the designs for the new building can be seen at:
The Met Office are relocating to Exeter from their current site in Bracknell (yippee!)
One of the designs for the new building can be seen at:
14 February 2001, 11:24 PM
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There's an ISP London way (near Heathrow IIRC) that has built their own gas fired power plant.
I'll try to dig out a name or some info which might be usefull.
Chris.
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I'll try to dig out a name or some info which might be usefull.
Chris.
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14 February 2001, 11:46 PM
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Chris,
Nice one mate, you is a star. Can talk to them and see what kind (if any) problems they have.
Cheers
Ian
Nice one mate, you is a star. Can talk to them and see what kind (if any) problems they have.
Cheers
Ian
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The NatWest building I used to work at in Aldgate was originally designed and built as a Key Data Centre and had a similair power arrangement except based on oil or diesel generators.
In normal use I beleive they actually over produced and fed back into the National Grid. I was never aware of any problems at all with this setup, generally find its much cleaner power and far less likley to drop out unexpectedly. I can't recall a single glitch while I was there. It certainly seems like a better Idea than waiting for the mains to die and then attempting to switch to back-up generators which have to be started etc.
The fuel crisis did cause one or two tense days
. They got down to 24 Hrs fuel before a Tanker turned up. I was in a meeting to discuss what would happen to the comms kit if for the first time in 20 years the building had to go to National Grid for their entire power...There was apparantly the possibility a small blip !
Dean
In normal use I beleive they actually over produced and fed back into the National Grid. I was never aware of any problems at all with this setup, generally find its much cleaner power and far less likley to drop out unexpectedly. I can't recall a single glitch while I was there. It certainly seems like a better Idea than waiting for the mains to die and then attempting to switch to back-up generators which have to be started etc.
The fuel crisis did cause one or two tense days
. They got down to 24 Hrs fuel before a Tanker turned up. I was in a meeting to discuss what would happen to the comms kit if for the first time in 20 years the building had to go to National Grid for their entire power...There was apparantly the possibility a small blip !Dean
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