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POWER TO THE PEOPLE: How @ORNL researchers helped build a better grid for Puerto Rico after #HurricaneMaria. ➝ ornl.gov/news/power-peo… pic.twitter.com/nVW82pz2Kg
4:10 PM - 12 Mar 2019
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Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria batters Puerto Rico in September 2017. Image credit: NASA
Solutions for a better Puerto Rico grid
Topic: Clean Energy
March 12, 2019
As Hurricane Maria swirled out to sea after plowing a destructive path across Puerto Rico in September 2017, initial reports were clear: The island’s power grid lay in near ruin.
DOE and its national laboratories immediately got busy, working not only to offer solutions for rebuilding the island’s electricity network but also to make it resilient to future disruption.
At ORNL, researchers stepped in to develop models for better grid protection, analyze options for new generation sources, and deploy sensors to monitor and evaluate the grid and inform decisions by the island’s utility, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.
From left, Nils Stenvig, Isabelle Snyder and Travis Smith of ORNL’s Power and Energy Systems Group stand in front of a digital simulator, which allows them to simulate grid equipment. Snyder is holding a GridEye sensor. Image credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL
One key development has been a planning model that places and optimizes systems called “protective relays,” which control circuit breakers and can isolate areas where power lines may be down, preventing outages from cascading system-wide. ORNL’s Dynamic Protection Planning Model can be used to predict the behavior of the electrical system in the event of severe weather.
The tool can, for instance, take the projected path of a hurricane and analyze its impact on transmission equipment, said Nils Stenvig of ORNL’s Power and Energy Systems Group. Such information can be crucial for planning and recovery.
The model could support tasks such as predictive islanding: isolating portions of the grid expected to be hit the hardest to keep as much of the system running as possible during a storm, Stenvig noted.
Travis Smith, an ORNL protection system engineer who has worked for major utilities, had already developed advanced modeling tools for DOE that take into account protective relays. He expanded those simulations for the Puerto Rico project.
“Protection engineers know how to calibrate relays individually, but this tool gives them a way to analyze and coordinate the entire system and make improvements,” Smith said. “This is a real roadmap utilities can use to modernize their system.”
Another tool being developed for Puerto Rico analyzes locations where new power generation can be sited and integrated into the grid without costly transmission system upgrades. “Sometimes those transmission system upgrades can end up costing more than the new generation itself,” Stenvig said.
ORNL’s computational scientists are also evaluating locations on the island where equipment such as spare generators and transformers could be strategically placed for easy, secure access after a natural disaster.
Part 1 of 2
https://www.ornl.gov/news/power-people
To help visualize the grid in Puerto Rico and validate modeling, ORNL researchers are in the process of deploying 20 GridEye sensors that constantly monitor and report on the island’s grid.
GridEye sensors, developed by University of Tennessee/ORNL Governor’s Chair Yilu Liu, have already been deployed at hundreds of locations across the continental United States to provide wide- area situational awareness of the grid. The sensors plug into standard house- hold outlets and record data on electrical disturbances using a patented triangulation algorithm.
The sensors are located inside utility substations, universities and commercial buildings in Puerto Rico. They are connected to the internet and synchronized with one another via a global positioning system to provide voltage, frequency and other measurements and to ensure the accuracy of researchers’ models.
In another project, ORNL is working to promote the island’s economic vitality by analyzing potential investments in microgrids. The microgrids would be made up of power generated around the island combined with energy storage. Microgrids have become increasingly popular to diversify a utility’s generation mix. ORNL researchers are working with collaborators at Sandia National Laboratories to provide technical analysis of proposed microgrid projects.
“Microgrids would make a real impact on businesses across the island,” Stenvig said. “They could potentially supply power to surrounding neighborhoods as well.”
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Nils Stenvig
ORNL researchers are also conceiving a more flexible system of utility poles that could, for instance, bend rather than break in high winds or could be safely collapsed ahead of a storm and then unfolded afterward. The lab’s expertise and capabilities in additive manufacturing could be leveraged to more quickly design and produce such infrastructure.
The research “fits into everything we do here at ORNL in terms of materials science, sensing, electronics, simulation, high-performance computing, and cyber- physical security,” Smith said.
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https://www.ornl.gov/news/power-people
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Facebook Reverses Zero Hedge Ban, Says It Made A "Mistake"
It has been a strange 24 hours.
On Monday, we first learned that for the previous two days, Facebook had banned all Zero Hedge content across its various mediums, as it went against Facebook's "Community Standards" (which to the best of our knowledge, neither we not anyone else has any idea what they are), a decision which - as we noted yesterday - surprised us for two reasons: not only do we not have an official Facebook account, but Facebook did not approach us even once with a warning or even notification.
While we were in the dark about what had triggered Facebook, or what was the company's motive, we were humbled and delighted not only with the media coverage this event received, but far more so with the outpouring of support we received from readers and across social media, where Zero Hedge had not been yet banned, like Twitter, where figures from various industries and across the political spectrum voiced support and came to our defense, with many condemning what we felt was an arbitrary decision.
Among those who spoke up were President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., Nigel Farage, Peter Thiel's liberal foil at Thiel Capital, Eric Weinstein, Infowars' Paul Joseph Watson and many others.
The censorship continues. How does @zerohedge’s content not “meet community standards?” FB doesn’t agree with them and they hit the platform’s obvious flaws at times. That’s it and it’s disgusting!
Facebook Bans Zero Hedge | Zero Hedge https://t.co/n6YsFhvFI5
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 12, 2019
Get ready for new & improved 2020 US elections. This time, you will be able to share more TrustedNews from AuthoritativeSources w/o having your user experience degraded by spam, conspiracy theories, or harmful thoughts.
If you miss heterodoxy, try this: https://t.co/NIQsGrsHrP pic.twitter.com/Efp5IKQN2q
— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) March 12, 2019
This is a total disgrace. #StopTheBias https://t.co/XAWRymJeQ2
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) March 11, 2019
Facebook has outright banned all posting of Zero Hedge links, one of the biggest non-corporate owned news websites on the Internet (and a frequent critic of Facebook's power). pic.twitter.com/oMX8duQXnB
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 11, 2019
Part 1 of 3
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-12/facebook-reverses-zero-hedge-ban-says-it-made-mistake
Facebook is censoring political content from alternative news websites. This megacorporation — which has a revolving door with the US government — has already banned and suspended other news sites and journalists.
This is a huge threat to civil liberties.https://t.co/pCjQtMD9ZS
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) March 12, 2019
This is the Best news and publicity @zerohedge can get… Well done, proud to know you guys.. Grind even harder its working. Facebook is so 1973 ish
— Marc Cohodes (@AlderLaneeggs) March 12, 2019
Facebook has blocked @zerohedge. I went and checked. It is true. Facebook is a bunch of Orwellian-Nazi types. I would get off that platform ASAP. Zuckerberg: You can rot in hell. They are saving a place for you.https://t.co/eIDzZEpuMR
— Dave Collum (@DavidBCollum) March 12, 2019
Wait… what?! If there was ANY doubt, THIS is ridiculous. #Facebook bans @zerohedge Cue #Orwell “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear…” https://t.co/EUEljfHpLM #zerohedge
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) March 12, 2019
To them, and to everyone else who reached out - either to us or to Facebook, or "said something" in private or on the Interweb - our sincerest gratitude.
And then on Tuesday morning, everything had suddenly returned to normal, and whether due to the unexpectedly widespread support we received, or because Facebook had made a sincere error, the ban was reversed.
Part 2 of 3
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-12/facebook-reverses-zero-hedge-ban-says-it-made-mistake
While Facebook has yet to contact us directly, they did comment with a Facebook spokesman saying that "This was a mistake with our automation to detect spam and we worked to fix it yesterday." He added that "we use a combination of human review and automation to enforce our policies around spam and in this case, our automation incorrectly blocked this link. As soon as we identified the issue, we worked quickly to fix it."
We still have no insight into which article(s) Facebook decided was sufficiently "spammy" to block everyone's access to our content, or on what basis Facebook's "automation and human review" had made the decision to quarantine our small website from the rest of Facebook's 2.3 billion monthly users.
But we are heartened by this development, not so much because it means a rebound in our traffic - as we observed yesterday, we are lucky in that Facebook represents a tiny source of our inbound referral traffic - but because it means nothing changes: we can and will continue as before, with zero adjustments to our writing style, and we will certainly continue with our highly critical coverage of all things Facebook. And best of all: it will be read on Facebook, allowing users of the world's biggest media company to escape an informational echo chamber, and be presented with contrasting opinions, which even if wrong, will allow countless readers to make more informed opinions than if served with preapproved, uniform, and ideologically palatable content.
And since some may read this as a quasi-official press release, we leave the "about us" part to the money-losing media venture of billionaire Mike Bloomberg's business empire (funded since day one by the procyclical $25,000/year Bloomberg terminal business), which yesterday described our little adventure as follows: "Since being founded in the depths of the financial crisis, Zero Hedge has built a dedicated following by serving up a mix of hardcore financial analysis and populist political commentary. Both the ‘Tyler Durden’ name and the site’s tagline – "On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero” – are borrowed from the anarchic cult classic ’Fight Club.’
Part 3 of 3
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-12/facebook-reverses-zero-hedge-ban-says-it-made-mistake
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By Any Means Necessary A Marine officer candidate participates in an obstacle course at the Officer Candidates School, @mcb_quantico. pic.twitter.com/kIZ2UB2NXf
5:00 PM - 12 Mar 2019
https://mobile.twitter.com/USMC/status/1105619482284883968?p=v