Lance Armstrong vs Austin Electric Utility Power Plant

"dude" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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I was at the shopping mall today, and saw in the Oakley store window a poster with some figures
concerning Lance's power output. I first heard these figures quoted by Chris Carmichael on OLN
during the 2001 Tour.

On the poster: "Over the 20 stages of the Tour, Lance produces 97,175,983 total Watts of power,
That's enough power to light his hometown of Austin, Texas for 2 hours and 18 minutes, or the
entire state of California for just over 3 seconds."

These boasts are way, way off. One of Austin's power plants, the Holly Street Unit can produce
628,000,000 watts of power. Lance's average Tour output was 340 watts, that is 0.000054% of the
Holly Street Power Plant. How long would it take Lance to generate energy equal to the power
plant's output for 2 hours and 18 minutes? 484 years or 49,398 times longer than the 86 hours of
the 2001 Tour.

You are assuming that all of the power produced by the plant is immediately consumed by the city.
Chances are that even it was running at full capacity (628,000,000 watts ?), the power plant
probably provides power to other cities / county areas / etc. Not to mention that the capacity you
mentioned is probably needed for fail-over situations with other plants in other cities / states.

-T

dude said:

I was at the shopping mall today, and saw in the Oakley store window a poster with some figures
concerning Lance's power output. I first heard these figures quoted by Chris Carmichael on OLN
during the 2001 Tour.

On the poster: "Over the 20 stages of the Tour, Lance produces 97,175,983 total Watts of power,
That's enough power to light his hometown of Austin, Texas for 2 hours and 18 minutes, or the
entire state of California for just over 3 seconds."

These boasts are way, way off. One of Austin's power plants, the Holly Street Unit can produce
628,000,000 watts of power. Lance's average Tour output was 340 watts, that is 0.000054% of the
Holly Street Power Plant. How long would it take Lance to generate energy equal to the power
plant's output for 2 hours and 18 minutes? 484 years or 49,398 times longer than the 86 hours of
the 2001 Tour.

And your point is?

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I was at the shopping mall today, and saw in the Oakley store window a poster with some figures
concerning Lance's power output.

There are Oakley stores in the mall now?! Does anyone else remember when Oakley was a company that
just made number plates for BMX bikes?

I first heard

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these figures quoted by Chris Carmichael on OLN during the 2001 Tour.

On the poster: "Over the 20 stages of the Tour, Lance produces 97,175,983 total Watts of power,
That's enough power to light his hometown of Austin, Texas for 2 hours and 18 minutes, or the
entire state of California for just over 3 seconds."

These boasts are way, way off. One of Austin's power plants, the Holly Street Unit can produce
628,000,000 watts of power.

'The Holly Street Unit' should have no problem beating Herman Meier in the prologue then.

Is she related to Picabo? Or Randy Johnson?

-'The RJ Unit'

"dude" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

I was at the shopping mall today, and saw in the Oakley store window a poster with some figures
concerning Lance's power output. I first

heard

Quoted message said:

these figures quoted by Chris Carmichael on OLN during the 2001 Tour.

On the poster: "Over the 20 stages of the Tour, Lance produces 97,175,983 total Watts of power,
That's enough power to light his hometown of Austin, Texas

for

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2 hours and 18 minutes, or the entire state of California for just

over

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3 seconds."

These boasts are way, way off. One of Austin's power plants, the

Holly

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Street Unit can produce 628,000,000 watts of power. Lance's average Tour output was 340 watts,
that is 0.000054% of the Holly Street Power Plant. How long would it take Lance to generate energy
equal to the power plant's output for 2 hours and 18 minutes? 484 years or 49,398 times longer
than the 86 hours of the 2001 Tour.

The poster should probably have said 97,175,983 Joules. 1 watt = 1 Joule/sec so at an average 300
watts, Lance's time would be roughly 90 hours.

Phil Holman

In article <[email hidden]>,

Tom Schulenburg said:

"dude" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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I was at the shopping mall today, and saw in the Oakley store window a poster with some figures
concerning Lance's power output. I first heard these figures quoted by Chris Carmichael on OLN
during the 2001 Tour.

On the poster: "Over the 20 stages of the Tour, Lance produces 97,175,983 total Watts of power,
That's enough power to light his hometown of Austin, Texas for 2 hours and 18 minutes, or the
entire state of California for just over 3 seconds."

These boasts are way, way off. One of Austin's power plants, the Holly Street Unit can produce
628,000,000 watts of power. Lance's average Tour output was 340 watts, that is 0.000054% of the
Holly Street Power Plant. How long would it take Lance to generate energy equal to the power
plant's output for 2 hours and 18 minutes? 484 years or 49,398 times longer than the 86 hours of
the 2001 Tour.

You are assuming that all of the power produced by the plant is immediately consumed by the city.
Chances are that even it was running at full capacity (628,000,000 watts ?), the power plant
probably provides power to other cities / county areas / etc. Not to mention that the capacity you
mentioned is probably needed for fail-over situations with other plants in other cities / states.

-T

I couldn't find information on Austin's power consumption, so I used just one power plant's output.
Austin's utility owns two plants locally and portions of others outside the city. The Holly Street
plant is the smallest currently in service.

Holly puts out 570 megawatts not 628

Rope

"dude" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

I was at the shopping mall today, and saw in the Oakley store window a poster with some figures
concerning Lance's power output. I first heard these figures quoted by Chris Carmichael on OLN
during the 2001 Tour.

On the poster: "Over the 20 stages of the Tour, Lance produces 97,175,983 total Watts of power,
That's enough power to light his hometown of Austin, Texas for 2 hours and 18 minutes, or the
entire state of California for just over 3 seconds."

These boasts are way, way off. One of Austin's power plants, the Holly Street Unit can produce
628,000,000 watts of power. Lance's average Tour output was 340 watts, that is 0.000054% of the
Holly Street Power Plant. How long would it take Lance to generate energy equal to the power
plant's output for 2 hours and 18 minutes? 484 years or 49,398 times longer than the 86 hours of
the 2001 Tour.

In middle of summer Austin has a peak load of 2069MW

Rope

"dude" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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In article <[email hidden]>,

Tom Schulenburg said:

"dude" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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I was at the shopping mall today, and saw in the Oakley store window a poster with some
figures concerning Lance's power output. I first

heard

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

these figures quoted by Chris Carmichael on OLN during the 2001 Tour.

On the poster: "Over the 20 stages of the Tour, Lance produces 97,175,983 total Watts of
power, That's enough power to light his hometown of Austin, Texas

for

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2 hours and 18 minutes, or the entire state of California for just

over

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3 seconds."

These boasts are way, way off. One of Austin's power plants, the

Holly

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Street Unit can produce 628,000,000 watts of power. Lance's average Tour output was 340 watts,
that is 0.000054% of the Holly Street Power Plant. How long would it take Lance to generate
energy equal to the power plant's output for 2 hours and 18 minutes? 484 years or 49,398 times
longer than the 86 hours of the 2001 Tour.

You are assuming that all of the power produced by the plant is

immediately

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consumed by the city. Chances are that even it was running at full

capacity

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(628,000,000 watts ?), the power plant probably provides power to other cities / county areas /
etc. Not to mention that the capacity you

mentioned

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is probably needed for fail-over situations with other plants in other cities / states.

-T

I couldn't find information on Austin's power consumption, so I used just one power plant's
output. Austin's utility owns two plants locally and portions of others outside the city. The
Holly Street plant is the smallest currently in service.

Wonder how the Holly Street Unit climbs. Or time trials! Yes! Now there's a match-up .... Armstrong
v. Holly Street U in the prologue.

dude said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Tom Schulenburg said:

"dude" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

I was at the shopping mall today, and saw in the Oakley store window a poster with some figures
concerning Lance's power output. I first heard these figures quoted by Chris Carmichael on OLN
during the 2001 Tour.

On the poster: "Over the 20 stages of the Tour, Lance produces 97,175,983 total Watts of power,
That's enough power to light his hometown of Austin, Texas for 2 hours and 18 minutes, or the
entire state of California for just over 3 seconds."

These boasts are way, way off. One of Austin's power plants, the Holly Street Unit can produce
628,000,000 watts of power. Lance's average Tour output was 340 watts, that is 0.000054% of the
Holly Street Power Plant. How long would it take Lance to generate energy equal to the power
plant's output for 2 hours and 18 minutes? 484 years or 49,398 times longer than the 86 hours
of the 2001 Tour.

You are assuming that all of the power produced by the plant is immediately consumed by the city.
Chances are that even it was running at full capacity (628,000,000 watts ?), the power plant
probably provides power to other cities / county areas / etc. Not to mention that the capacity
you mentioned is probably needed for fail-over situations with other plants in other cities /
states.

-T

I couldn't find information on Austin's power consumption, so I used just one power plant's output.
Austin's utility owns two plants locally and portions of others outside the city. The Holly Street
plant is the smallest currently in service.

Jeff Brody said:

Wonder how the Holly Street Unit climbs. Or time trials! Yes! Now there's a match-up ....
Armstrong v. Holly Street U in the prologue.

Holly Street U. sounds like an academic institution.

dude said:

On the poster: "Over the 20 stages of the Tour, Lance produces 97,175,983 total Watts of power,
That's enough power to light his hometown of Austin, Texas for 2 hours and 18 minutes, or the
entire state of California for just over 3 seconds."

These boasts are way, way off. One of Austin's power plants, the Holly Street Unit can produce
628,000,000 watts of power. Lance's average Tour output was 340 watts, that is 0.000054% of the
Holly Street Power Plant. How long would it take Lance to generate energy equal to the power
plant's output for 2 hours and 18 minutes? 484 years or 49,398 times longer than the 86 hours of
the 2001 Tour.

On the other hand, the poster only says "light," not "provide for all electric power consumption."

Duke