Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: use of military resources in natural disasters Message-ID: <9937@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 5 Oct 89 02:14:09 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: JHU-Applied Physics Laboratory Lines: 27 Approved: military@att.att.com From: jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt) From: Ernest H. Robl }This may be a bit of a stretch for this newsgroup, but it does }touch on the role of the military in peacetime and the discussion }on the future of the military in previous articles. I sort of wonder why there is a power shortage in Charleston, given that there is a nuclear submarine (trapped) pierside. Any ideas? When a hurricane hit Mississippi a decade or two ago, an LHA powered Pascagula using on-board diesel generators. Why not a nuclear power plant? [mod.note: I'll add another precedent. In the winter of 1929-30, the aircraft carrier Lexington provided power for the city of Tacoma, Washington after a drought rendered their hydroelectric plant useless. Lexington used steam-electric drive, where boilers powered turbines which operated generators. - Bill ] -- "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world." - Calvin ............................................................................. jwm@aplvax.jhuapl.edu,jwm@aplvax.uucp,meritt%aplvm.BITNET,jwm@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu