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Transformer shortage hits utilities in storm season
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| 08/22/2022 06:55 AM EDT
| Peter Behr |
Posted on 08/22/2022 1:08:47 PM PDT by deport
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To: Paladin2
There are only 2 or 3 manufacturers in the US that makes the big Commercial/Industrial sized ones.
We’re in for a dark winter with supply chains and long lead times.
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posted on
08/22/2022 2:22:37 PM PDT
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
To: metmom
If a hurricane/tornado comes through we’re in for a world of hurt getting replacements.
I’m sure this particular shortage is just another coincidence.
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posted on
08/22/2022 2:24:41 PM PDT
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
To: Paladin2
Who needs inventory when we have JIT supply chains?
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posted on
08/22/2022 2:27:15 PM PDT
by
Roccus
(First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
To: deport
In New Jersey the old Westinghouse transformer plant stands empty, and hobbyists are flying model airplanes in the high bays.
To: Roccus
"Who needs inventory when we have JIT supply chains?"When I was forced to implement JIT 30 years ago....I warned everyone.
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posted on
08/22/2022 2:34:21 PM PDT
by
blam
To: deport
There are transformers all over the place just hanging from poles....
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posted on
08/22/2022 2:40:44 PM PDT
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
I never saw so many planned coincidences in my life.
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posted on
08/22/2022 2:47:43 PM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
As far as I can tell Utilities are still well paid by State
Commissions to employ and follow the recommendations of same.
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posted on
08/22/2022 2:48:47 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: deport
Save the electric grid, phase out EV’s
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posted on
08/22/2022 2:49:34 PM PDT
by
Cold Heart
(Save The Grid, Phase Out EV's)
To: George from New England
The Saharan sands (aka Saharan Air Layer, SAL) is an annual phenomenon. The sands are notable this year because of a high pressure system in the mid-Atlantic with the easterly winds.
The dust is beginning to thin out, just in time for the peak of hurricane season.
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posted on
08/22/2022 2:54:27 PM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(The federal tyrants have awakened the sleeping giant. )
To: Organic Panic
There are transformers all over the place just hanging from poles....
*********
Yep. But when it comes to generation and distribution
stations it can be a totally different game.
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posted on
08/22/2022 3:16:58 PM PDT
by
deport
To: blam
Yeah, but you were prolly one of those stodgy dinosaurs that were holding back all those up-and-coming MBAs that were going to re-write how business was done.
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posted on
08/22/2022 3:38:51 PM PDT
by
Roccus
(First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
To: Roccus
"Yeah, but you were prolly one of those stodgy dinosaurs that were holding back all those up-and-coming MBAs that were going to re-write how business was done." I was.
I retired right after that at the end of 1994.
I was a chip-maker.
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posted on
08/22/2022 4:19:45 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
So was I.
I was one of those 50+ year olds that was a drag on the company’s progress so those MBAs made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. Of curse it wouldn’t take effect for two years. By that time, the company had been sold, those MBAs were on the street and the new management was making very good offers to get us to stay for a few more years. If I could have, I would have stayed, but family obligations overruled.
At that time I was a Telco cable splicer.
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posted on
08/22/2022 4:48:45 PM PDT
by
Roccus
(First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
To: metmom
If anybody has ever worked DAT (Damage Assessment TEAM) for power outages, you’ll realize that a few days without power and folks will start dying.
Multiply that all over the world and this is what is possibly coming our way.
I’m so thankful I have Jesus.
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posted on
08/22/2022 5:35:54 PM PDT
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
To: Roman_War_Criminal
You ever read “One Second After”?
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posted on
08/22/2022 6:27:36 PM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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