▲ | ethbr1 4 days ago | |
Distributed mass hunting rifle shots on high voltage transformers. Unguarded. Scattered around the country. Any oil leaks potentially destroy them. Manufacturing backlogs of multiple years. https://www.energy.gov/oe/addressing-security-and-reliabilit... The only thing that's kept domestic terrorism to a minimum is that anyone smart enough to do it well has better economic opportunities. | ||
▲ | more_corn 4 days ago | parent [-] | |
The tragedy is that several players in the transformer market went out of business because they ramped up due to the building boom before the financial crisis. If I weren’t busy I’d go buy one of those old factories and open it back up. Great boring business to be in. |