Chapter 23 Setting Up Base (2)

• There was still a good amount of daylight remaining and the rooms were bright enough to work in, so, Lisa decided to first start organizing her new living space and fortify the entrances to the Powerhouse building. The living space she wanted to make was going to be the most work. After all, how long these rooms had become covered with dust and clutter was anyone’s guess. The furniture clutter Lisa decided to use as part of the fortifications. It was going to be a bit tricky to turn this office place into a suitable living area. 
• The Powerhouse building is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power, not a place designed to be lived in. Power stations are generally connected to an electrical grid which runs into the town and beyond. Many power stations contain one or more generators, a rotating machine that converts mechanical power into three-phase electric power. The relative motion between a magnetic field and a conductor, creates an electric current. The amount of electricity produced from a hydroelectric dam, such as this one, is normally measured in megawatts and kilowatts.
• To make things simpler to understand one megawatt can power around one thousand homes. Then a megawatt can produce one thousand kilowatts. This Powerhouse building has four such generators and transformers just in this room alone, as well as the offices and control rooms above them. Lisa estimated from the dam's huge size the electricity produced here could be a huge number of megawatts, thus powering this town easily and even towns beyond if the power grid was still functional.