My neighbor works at a lumber mill that takes less time to fire up their cogen plant on scrap wood than 4 hours. IDK what they’re doing at UCSC, probably filling out safety forms for 3-1/2 hours.
LOL yeah that would not surprise me… although IIRC it’s natural gas and at least some of that time is what it takes to spin the turbine up/down. Probably something where the size of the thing and its design matters. But I’m just guessing, I asked but it was run by a different department and my contact didn’t know the details.
My neighbor works at a lumber mill that takes less time to fire up their cogen plant on scrap wood than 4 hours. IDK what they’re doing at UCSC, probably filling out safety forms for 3-1/2 hours.
LOL yeah that would not surprise me… although IIRC it’s natural gas and at least some of that time is what it takes to spin the turbine up/down. Probably something where the size of the thing and its design matters. But I’m just guessing, I asked but it was run by a different department and my contact didn’t know the details.