• SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    Every utilities company facing critical shortages for repairs and maintenance

    Still an issue, I work for a utility and lead times for things like high voltage transformers are still ~18 months or so from what I've been told

    Coincidentally, I also processed a shipment of smaller transformers that came thru from South Korea (which for us was unheard of)

    It's not ideal

    • bazingabrain [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      so what youre telling me is that if a group of organized people wanted, they could take out the entire us electrical grid by blowing up a bunch of transformers?

      HUH

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        8 months ago

        Attack on Nine Substations Could Take Down U.S. Grid (2014)

        https://spectrum.ieee.org/attack-on-nine-substations-could-take-down-us-grid

    • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Lead times on those have been that bad for at least 10 years