From: cacst9+@pitt.edu (Cecelia A Clancy)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: RFD: sci.engr.power
Summary: I hope to see the formation of the proposed newsgroup.
Keywords: power engineering, new group, request for discussion
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:09:18 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <Bxty6t.41C@uunet.uu.net> power+@edrc.cmu.edu (Power List) writes:
>This is a formal Request for Discussion on the creation of a new newsgroup
>(internet bboard) called "sci.engr.power" (not moderated).
>
>PURPOSE
>  The newsgroup 'sci.engr.power' would be a forum for discussing 
>  issues related to generation, transmission, distribution, and
>  consumption of electrical energy.
>
>RATIONALE
>  Electrical Power Engineering is an important discipline that is 
>  undergoing significant changes -- deregulation, overloading of existing
>  facilities, environmental regulations, new technologies (FACTS,
>  parallel computing, alternate energy sources, etc), and new applications 
>  (e.g., electric cars). It is felt that an internet bboard would facilitate
>  discussion among those interested in all aspects of power engineering.

I think this should also be cross-posted to ieee.general for obvious
reasons and to sci.engr.mech because 
ME's do power too.   Generators are rotational machinery that are driven
by fuel-consuming engines or by steam turbines or by water power (as
at Hoover Dam).    And think of all the valves, piping, pressure vessels,
intricate heat-exchange set-ups at any power plant involving liquid
water and steam -- especially at a nuclear power plant !!!   (And never
forget that nuclear engineers often come from ME backgrounds.) 



>POSSIBLE ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION (not an exclusive list)
 
May I add the topic of public concerns for the safety of strong magnetic
fields.   Here in Pennsylvania, for example, we are now very much concerned
about a proposed cross-state high-tension transmission line that will bring
power from Pittsburgh (where we now have a lot of unused power-generating
capacity -  we have generators that once supplied power to all those
no-longer-existing steel mills now sitting idle) to eastern Pennsylvania
and perhaps to parts of New Jersey and New York and Deleware and Maryland.

Should we be building giant power plants with a resulting maze of very
high voltage high tension lines criss-crossing the countryside and the
city-scapes or should we build many smaller power stations and present
the public with less exposure to strong magnetic fields?

ARE strong magnetic fields dangerous or are they not?    For help on
this and similar questions, maybe we should cross-post the proposal
for this newsgroup also to sci.med.physics.


 
>NAME
>  sci.power.engr seems to be the most fitting for this group.

Ooooops!   I think you meant to write " sci.engr.power "


>Thank you for your interest! 
 
And Danke Scho"n to you far more for YOUR interest in getting this
new newsgroup started !!! 


Cecelia.   <muller+@pitt.edu>

       Cecelia Mu"ller        (412) 682-2798
       P.O. Box 71222
       Pittsburgh, PA 15213
       USA

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