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Another casualty of the trade wars: now we don't have transformers | Inside China Business
The United States will soon need to replace over 30 million power transformers on existing power grids, while somehow meeting the enormous new power demand from factories and AI data centers.
Under US law, all the new components and materials used by electric utilities must be build in the United States.
Wait times for new transformers and switches are now over three years, and costs are rocketing higher.
Damn, this seems like a huge vulnerability in the US's industrial production, communications, and computation sectors - imagine if somebody attacked the transformers of key facilities all over the country? They're usually outside and protected by a chain link fence at most. A destructive actor seeking to sabotage the operations of US industry and government could deal enormous damage with simple homemade explosives lobbed over fences at these critical points of an already vulnerable grid. Crazy to think about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_County_substation_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
the capitalist response to climate change will be increasing stochastic terrorism against its own electrical infrastructure, thereby reducing emissions maybe
Easier to just get a carbine and take potshots at them well outside of the range of the fences and any cameras watching the permiter.
applying for a sabotage permit? rookie mistake
Fascists in my area were doing that a few years back and caused millions in damages in just a couple of weeks
Were they caught? If you know they're fascists it seems like they got caught doing it and it's not a safe method? How were they caught?
People typically haven't been caught for these attacks because they're done in the dead of night at great distance in uninhabited areas against mostly unwatched infrastructure. When they're caught it's from ballistics forensics or because they were loud about it before or after the attack online or in person.
wow
I believe the US also provided a bunch of transformers and other equipment to Ukraine that had been in reserve for weather disaster response repairs. Then that hurricane hit and demolished the appalachian region and shucks we were fresh out of transformers.
Shock therapy :kelly:
Dying empire
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
thanks for being there for me, lil buddy
let's hurry up and destroy this evil shithole already
What do you mean is coming? I pay $350-400 a summer every montj
Cost of living only became a talking point in the 2020s. Bro, I was noticing that the porks were deciding EVERYTHING should be a luxury for the rich in the mid 2010s.
You’ll own nothing and you’ll be miserable while you are at it.
Remember how the cost of living crisis was framed as a temporary hurdle to overcome? We've just slowly accepted this is the new normal and it's never going back.
Funnily enough, the Trump admin just killed a loan guarantee for the "Grain Belt Express", which would've helped distribute cheap wind power out of Kansas. The project might still get built but it seems like the Trump admin is hellbent on scoring some own goals here.
Inb4 the narrative is “expensive electricity is good, actually. You want porky to make a lot of money, don’t you?”
wtf, why doesn't archive.is work on this site
yeah, I noticed that. luckily the prompt for email is pretty chill and you can just enter trash in there with a bunk password, no rigamarole.
sincerely,
fart@aol.com
That's interesting...
Guess the archiving process doesn't turn off site scripts to block those popups?