2024 Tropical Weather Thread

efil4stnias said

he ( Lee ) did mention something about the "electricity requirement" since they were built in the 40s/50s. ( im guessing 220 vs 110 or something along those lines ) and how the City has known this issue for over 30 years and how they should have asked the Feds for additional $$$s post Katrina to figure out a solution to that issue.

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It's worse than that. SWB pumps require 25Hz power (consider US power is typically 60Hz and European power is 50Hz). This means that the generators (or transformers) to power the pumps have to be custom, and fixing the generators and pumps requires specific expert knowledge.

So you have to replace all the pumps and generators (as I understand it) as it would be close to impossible (or equally expensive) to retrofit it all.