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[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Better to hit the substation supplying it.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Substations are full of oil-cooled power transformers.

Oil-cooled power transformers are large, obvious targets that can be permanently disabled by a single hit from a decently powerful rifle, even at great distance, and they're expensive and time-consuming to replace.

Just saying...

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

There was an incident a few years back where someone shot one up to cut power for a gay bar or some such other harmless thing. They never did find the person who did it.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 47 minutes ago

If only such power could be used for good...