Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Fukushima Generators Came from Cruise Ships (w/ Greg Palast)" video.

  1. TO ALL: I am an Australian engineer and there is some very concerning stuff here and some stuff that really doesn't mean anything. The cruise ship stuff doesn't really mean anything. It might be something that's easily explainable. In any form of engineering there are parts that can be used almost anywhere. The fact that somebody used the same generators and pumps off a cruise ship might not look good to the average person but it means nothing compared to the FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATIONS and REQUIREMENTS. The "what does it have to do" stuff. For any engineered system the first question that should be asked is "What does it have to do?" followed by a string of questions regarding how well it has to do it. So for emergency generators and pumps it starts with things like: How fast does it have to respond? What's the minimum amount of time it has to be able to run at full power? If its a generator what's the power does it has to deliver? If its a pump how much water (flow rate & pressure) must it be capable of pumping? HOW RELIABLE DOES IT HAVE TO BE? Those answers become the Functional Specifications and Requirements. It may or may not include the specific industry. What can happen is that devices made for one industry are well enough designed to meet the requirements and or standards of other industries. An emergency generator for a cruise ship would have to have very high reliability because part of its specification would be the ship is at sea, in a storm and help is days away. Forget nuclear power station and cruise ship and think - its an emergency system so when its actually needed ITS AN EMERGENCY. I work in control system and part of that are the control circuits behind those big red buttons with EMERGENCY STOP written on them. You'd be amazed how many people, including other engineers, who just forget that the reason someone actually presses and E/STOP is because something bad is already happening. The REQUIREMENTS for any EMERGENCY device isn't what it has to do when everything is normal. It has to do its job when the shit has already hit the fan and being thrown everywhere. So the cruise ship stuff is meaningless BUT the failure to perform as SPECIFIED and REQUIRED is absolutely scream as loud as you can stuff.
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