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How to Kill a Transformer
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| Mar. 5, 2014
| Lou Frenzel
Posted on 03/10/2014 9:10:50 AM PDT by null and void
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
Does anyone know how he was going to do this, and why not do it now? Yes. Our government does. They had Tesla's place ransacked immediately after he died. Why not do it now? Follow the Benjamins. Who would have benefited the most from this technology being hidden? Who would have paid the most for it at the time?
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posted on
03/10/2014 12:51:26 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Truth sounds like hate...to those who hate truth.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
"We should hang the sort of chaps who shoot at transformers, or sabotage dams or point lasers at aircraft or drive 40 in the left lane with their blinkers on" while talking and/or texting on his phone.
Fixed it!
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posted on
03/10/2014 12:51:36 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
Ive got a little list Ive got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed who never would be missed
To: null and void
I wonder how long before they can make transformers with a 3D printer?
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:09:49 PM PDT
by
Hugin
To: null and void
I remember reading about this mode of infrastructure attack more than 10 years ago. This is not some bright new revelation.
There are also some vulnerable choke points in our goods transportation networks.
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:13:26 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: TheCipher
That’s exactly the article I had in mind. Sheesh, not 10 years old, more like 25. I remeber the remarks about the embrittlement marker, too.
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:17:39 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: cuban leaf
Yeah, there is a DC power transmission system, used commercially. Big semiconductors do the conversion to AC.
Wall warts can use small windings because they limit the energy supplied to the transformer. "Switch-Mode Power Supply"
The better solution from a "limit the losses in event of failure" point of view, for power transmission, is to do less of it. Generate power local to the points of consumption.
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:24:27 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: null and void
Trees are apt to short out (to ground) the power conductors coming in and going out. Substations are built in clearings for good reason.
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:27:22 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: RinaseaofDs
--
Transformers do more than step up and step down voltages. They also change the frequency in order to decrease line losses and reduce the heat (another form of loss). --
They can't change the frequency, and if they did, it would lead to all sorts of interesting effects ;-) What transformers can do (and in fact, are physcially destined to do) is change the phase angle relationship between incoming power and outgoing power - something called "power factor."
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:32:38 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: Cboldt
True. but even the partial protection from the areas not directly under the goesinta and goesouta power lines would help. Shorter growing varieties and/or routine trimming could be used even in those areas.
Where that is not practical, even a simple cinder block wall could provide shielding and concealment
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:34:59 PM PDT
by
null and void
( Obama is Law-Less because Republican "leaders" are BALL-LESS!!)
To: Cboldt
The better solution from a "limit the losses in event of failure" point of view, for power transmission, is to do less of it. Generate power local to the points of consumption. That is the ultimate solution.
No centralized grid, no centralized vulnerability.
Something that causes every big government/central planner screaming nightmares. A structure they can't shut down or throttle by fiat.
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:39:06 PM PDT
by
null and void
( Obama is Law-Less because Republican "leaders" are BALL-LESS!!)
To: null and void
Makes me nervous as the high tension power lines just a half-mile from my house run from the Monticello nuclear plant to downtown Minneapolis.
A half-dozen key switching stations and you’ll black-out most of Central Minnesota.
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:43:41 PM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
To: Alas Babylon!
See the
Carrington Event. There were reports of telegraph wires melting and railroad ties bursting into flame. We've apparently been lucky that nothing as significant has been aimed at Earth since then.
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:51:12 PM PDT
by
kitchen
(Even the walls have ears.)
To: null and void
Lemons, lemonade. An aggressive body armor company should start promoting its new line of custom transformer armor!
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:57:35 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
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posted on
03/10/2014 2:03:16 PM PDT
by
Altariel
("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
To: bert; Salamander
Ping for a snake-training opportunity.
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posted on
03/10/2014 2:04:16 PM PDT
by
Altariel
("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
To: RinaseaofDs
Its something youd use if you were going to come in and colonize a foe. Like the book One Second After. What is the range of such a thing, as in square miles, if you know?
To: nascarnation
Now this is a transformer!
To: VRW Conspirator
LOL I saw that one in ginormous size at the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis.
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posted on
03/10/2014 2:23:41 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
To: Cboldt
What transformers can do (and in fact, are physcially destined to do) is change the phase angle relationship between incoming power and outgoing power - something called "power factor."Not really a transformer. That would be a one to one induction coil. Transformers, by definition, change voltage.
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posted on
03/10/2014 3:39:22 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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