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I should have mentioned that sometimes the overloads need a hearty push, but it sounded like you had a handle on it.

I tell my customers, lightning is this big (hold arms wide apart) while a lightning arrestor is this big (hold fingers close together).

Microfarads are more important than voltage, that capacitor should be fine. Connection does not matter. Lightning can hit the ground and...

You're correct. Many of the new combined cycle gas plants I commission are using air cooled condensers that are closed loop.

"It would take 3.7 trillion pounds of materials to generate half of U.S. electricity with 1,095,000 2 MW wind turbines. Each turbine...

Maybe taxpayers are footing the bill through state or federal government funding. Billions have been given away by the federal gubmit...

I have dodged the windmills twice. Now they want to put a huge transmission line across the place. Just another consequence of being...

I start up gas fired power plants weekly, and I don't understand why you think they're unsafe. No fuel is perfect, but NG seems to...

I would rather have a windmill near me than a data center. If we had less data centers, we could get by with less power plants...

As was said, never use rope down a well. Cable makes an even bigger mess when it comes loose. I never put anything down the well that...

If the pump is stuck bad enough that the pipe and wire won't get it out, cable or rope probably wont help. We've made up the same tool...

We have never saved a pump because it had a rope on it, only lost them. We NEVER install or replace rope in the well, it doesn't belong...

I am surprised the pump service guy would not send the camera down. I know the outfit I worked for would have. Then you know what your...

You’re spot on — a well pump with the right check valve setup can easily handle that kind of pressure, and avoiding extra valves helps...

Twice this week and once last week I've driven 40 minutes to pick up my 16-year old granddaughter and then driven 30 minutes to take her...