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To: Pelham

Yes power out for a few weeks
It’d be Omega Man


97 posted on 09/24/2023 2:52:12 PM PDT by wardaddy (Why so many nevertrumpers with early sign ups and no posting history till now? Zot them PTB)
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To: wardaddy; sport

Our electrical grid includes a number of custom designed LPTs, Large Power Transformers:

“Key industry sources have identified the limited availability of spare LPTs as a potential issue for critical infrastructure resilience in the United States”

These are very expensive and have a long lead time. And naturally, thanks to bipartisan support for globalism and American de-industialization, we no longer build them. We probably no longer know how to build them, having surrendered the institutional memory along with the plants capable of making them.

Anyway a truly serious and angry opponent would knock these units out and let us wallow in the resulting chaos. It would take a very long time to recover. No nukes needed.

https://www.energy.gov/ceser/articles/large-power-transformers-and-us-electric-grid-report-update-april-2014

A smart country would encourage decentralized power generation in order to reduce this system risk.


104 posted on 09/24/2023 3:59:58 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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