True Patriot Love - Why a $500M Project Used a Garden Hose for Cooling #tplmedia

00:00:00.000 I once did a project.

00:00:01.040 I got to tell you this story.

00:00:02.440 I once did a construction project, and they had a power generation plant in the building.

00:00:09.420 It was a small one, but it actually ran the whole block of buildings.

00:00:13.600 And the crazy thing is the guys who came up with this scheme of the power generation plant

00:00:18.440 had cooling issues, so they couldn't get them under control.

00:00:22.680 So their temporary solution, which ended up being a permit solution for over three years,

00:00:27.280 was to have some guy sit on a chair with a hose and spray down come on the generators from

00:00:35.280 overheating with cold water it sounds kind of wacky right yeah it's a bad solution and i always

00:00:40.760 remember taking people on tours because this this was quite this this was a massive project it was

00:00:45.740 over half a billion dollar project and uh you know i would take people on tours and we'd we'd walk by

00:00:51.340 the guy in the chair with the hose right that's the hose and people would always ask me what's

00:00:55.220 what exactly is he doing right and i'd make up a story because i was so embarrassed that this was

00:01:00.260 actually taking place and there was lawsuits over this and it was a very uh difficult thing because

00:01:05.220 they couldn't get it fixed right but the only re the only way to keep it going without blowing up

00:01:10.660 was to keep cooling it

True Patriot Love - July 29, 2026