And lo on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:08:36 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>> And lo on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:02:40 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull>  
>> did spake, saying:
>>
>>> The thing is:
>>>
>>> 1. The guys at CAT have a contractual obligation to arrive within X  
>>> minutes of being called. If they fail to do this, they must pay us  
>>> absurd amounts of money.
>>  Yeah, but that's little compensation if as a result businesses stop  
>> using you and you fold
>
> I don't think you understand what I mean by "absurd amounts of money".  
> ;-)
>
> [As in, like, if companies *did* stop using us, we'd *still* have so  
> much money it wouldn't even matter...]

Sounds like you need a power cut, a narrow road, a tree, and a chainsaw.

>>> 2. The freezers don't instantly heat up when the power is turned off.  
>>> They have this thing called... thermal insulation. ;-) Not to mention  
>>> the specific melting heat of water. (Do you have any idea how much ice  

>>  I'm just wondering as to the overall cost of a CAT UPS over the cost  
>> of the contract to bring in a CAT generator, which would also run all  
>> your electrical equipment.
>
> Well, I'm sure somebody will have looked at that and decided it's not  
> worth it. (I would think that for more than 3 seconds of cover, you'd  
> need a battery larger than our entire office...)

You'd think.

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Phil Cook

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