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The plant is built on a flat piece of ground. They could and probably should be required to build a berm around the facility by pushing up dirt and created a 10
by hourislate 9y ago
The plant is built on a flat piece of ground. They could and probably should be required to build a berm around the facility by pushing up dirt and created a 10ft/3m high wall. If they had a flood bladder they could of put it in front of the gate and basically kept the entire facility dry with the help of pumps running.
The couple of 100k it would have cost seems a small price to pay for flood insurance. I suspect they don't care and probably have the plant and it's equipment insured for 10 times the value. That's typically how these places operate. Now they can collect their insurance at 10 times the value of the loss.
- noddingham 9y agoAnd when the electricity went out, and then their generators were depleted, leading to the lack of refrigeration which caused the explosion. How would your solution have mitigated this situation?
- tlb 9y agoThe generators failed because they were flooded. Running out of fuel should not be an issue: you can easily have a couple weeks worth in the tanks, and deliver more by boat as needed.
- sjmulder 9y agoThere is a datacenter in the Netherlands – I couldn't quickly find out which one – of which the first floor is waterproof and has provisions for boat access on an upper floor, exactly for this scenario.
- hourislate 9y agoAlthough I can only speculate,they probably had the generator installed at ground level and no back up fuel supply. This is the problem with them and 100's of small plants in the region. There is hardly if any oversight nor is there any meaningful thought given to preventing a catastrophe. I am willing to bet a donut and coffee that they are celebrating at head office.
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