To Raptor:
I apologize because it appears I've given you some "wrong" information. Sorry about that but I was just trying to help a brother out, based on my experience.
To Marssim:
Thank you for the links, I clicked, I looked, I read, and I stand corrected. And you're a sharp cookie to figure out my nuclear background is with a bunch of cornbread (I believe you may have meant corn fed, but I could be wrong) ducks in commercial nuclear power.
I am grateful for the gangs of high thinkers, their work creates work for me. We are constantly spending time, dose, and money correcting their concoctions.
Ummmm the OP (I assume that means original poster as I'm as inexperienced in internet lingo as I am in things nuclear) wrote that he found "just the type of answer I was looking for", why would you wonder, after the fact, if he found what he was looking for. Rhetorical.
I looked up mentive in my dictionary, not there. I Yahooed it, got a Myspace page. I Googled it, got Mad Men TV. Help a brother out! Rhetorical.
Turbines and generators have a definite discernible causal connection.
To the posters on this thread:
I think every one of you put out good information.
To all the others that may read this:
Man o Man! I have been away from a lot of the subjects discussed on Nukeworker for a long time. Usually I only come on here to look for work. The other day I spent several hours on here reading. I read the whole NPUA thread and the whole thread on how outages are changing (can't remember the title). One definite conclusion I've come to is if people on here spent more time being constructive than trying to one-up one another, bickering, and patting themselves on the back, it would be a better, more effective, and probably more popular place.
I hope this posting doesn't get deleted, I think more reasonable people need to speak up. Nukeworker is a great site, a great source for information, training, real world experience, etc. and I think the inordinate amount of BS that goes on only detracts from it. Jerry Springer and Housewives of Wherever comes to mind!
Just one man's opinion and yes, I know what they say about opinions.
A great 2011 to everyone!