A short circuit arcing across the wire that is wrapped around the rock. I assume the bolt is the arc following the rock as it heads towards the ground. Somewhat related, you can also apparently do some pretty wild stuff with graphite and power lines: https://youtu.be/_2i5TUR9jRk
Again, I would not recommend even thinking about doing this and am only posting this video here for educational purposes.
I feel like this knowledge could be reappropriated by the people. Maybe you could rig a canister of graphite wires with a simple explosive to launch them at the power lines with a pipe "bazooka". A half dozen environmentalists shooting at the power lines leading out from a coal power plant might be able to shut it down non-destructively.
Doing this would almost certainly lead to power outages and fires, especially trying to do a DIY version of it. And as always, without a well-organized network of workers to take advantage of whatever damage is caused, this won’t do anything except turn people against you and likely get you arrested.
I think the implication in the video is that whoever’s deploying this is choosing between the graphite, which keeps the majority of the infrastructure intact, and a more traditional bomb which would absolutely destroy it and have a higher change of killing civilians. But as we saw in Texas, US infrastructure is so shitty that even short lived outages will cause deaths
that's why I'm shooting the tangle of wires out of a bazooka instead of throwing a rock into the lines from below, to get myself further away from the electrical arc.
A short circuit arcing across the wire that is wrapped around the rock. I assume the bolt is the arc following the rock as it heads towards the ground. Somewhat related, you can also apparently do some pretty wild stuff with graphite and power lines: https://youtu.be/_2i5TUR9jRk
Again, I would not recommend even thinking about doing this and am only posting this video here for educational purposes.
That was a messed up video. Love how normalized total war is that targeting civilian infrastructure is just a given.
I feel like this knowledge could be reappropriated by the people. Maybe you could rig a canister of graphite wires with a simple explosive to launch them at the power lines with a pipe "bazooka". A half dozen environmentalists shooting at the power lines leading out from a coal power plant might be able to shut it down non-destructively.
Wouldn’t you risk screwing nearby neighbourhoods out of power
Doing this would almost certainly lead to power outages and fires, especially trying to do a DIY version of it. And as always, without a well-organized network of workers to take advantage of whatever damage is caused, this won’t do anything except turn people against you and likely get you arrested.
I think the implication in the video is that whoever’s deploying this is choosing between the graphite, which keeps the majority of the infrastructure intact, and a more traditional bomb which would absolutely destroy it and have a higher change of killing civilians. But as we saw in Texas, US infrastructure is so shitty that even short lived outages will cause deaths
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sounds like a good way to have that arc go from the lines to the ground via you
that's why I'm shooting the tangle of wires out of a bazooka instead of throwing a rock into the lines from below, to get myself further away from the electrical arc.
That's fair. Or maybe a catapult type thing. I don't know why I was picturing it standing there.
Drones seem like they could be useful there
It’s done by quadcopters with copper wires (allegedly, in minecraft)
Everyone wave to our FBI agent. Hey Fred! How are the kids? How did Nancy's ballet recital go?
just make a bunch of these and load them with graphite threads
Russia hasn't done this shit in Ukraine to my knowledge.
Russia is still providing electricity to Kiev-controlled areas of Ukraine from the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant that they captured.
don’t tell me what to do, these rocks ain’t gonna throw themselves