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[–] [Sticky] • 12 pts (edited )

Transformer fire...

"At approximately 10 a.m. Tuesday morning at "the A5 transformer at Hoover Dam caught fire," according to a statement attributed to Jacklynn L. Gould, the Bureau of Reclamation's regional director for the Lower Colorado Region. "

[–] [Sticky] • 1 pt (edited )

Large transformers can be monitored for developing failure.

1) sample the oil in the unit. Degrading materials, cellulose if I recall, start to build up as the unit ages.

2) measure and release building pressure in the oil tank. Oil can be turned into gas (maybe by electrolysis), as it degrades.

You need to change the oil every now an then, and these devices do wear out over time. They can be rebuilt more easily if you do not allow it to become a bomb rupture, leak, and burn.

Also, this may be an old transformer full of PCB. We'll see how big of a mess that is now.

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Like they have been doing for the last 80 years. What has changed?

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They have not been doing so at Boulder Dam, evidently.

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Hoover Dam has been running and producing electricity for over 80 years. These turbines have had major overhauls several times. How did they get to the point where the maintenance was so poor that a turbine caught fire?

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Infrastructure destruction is part of “build back better.” Bank on it.

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"We must rid ourselves of this old decaying infrastructure built by racists and misogynists."

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See look! Hydroelectric power is just as dangerous as wind turbine power.

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Explosion? Looks more like smoke billowing from an equipment fire. Notice there isn't any scattering of smoke to the sides or any disruption on the water from shrapnel/debris coming from the explosion source. Is there any video of an actual explosion or just this smoke rising?

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Oh come on don't destroy these people's hopium.

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That's like asking me to play along with a tranny's mental illness and say 'she' is stunning and brave.

not gonna do it

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Noooo, I want to believe that they are destroying everything every time anything catches fire or crashes!!!!111

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Maybe that barrel at the base of the fire like it's tar burning. It's so coincidental they had the camera right there at the right spot to catch the smoke but no debris is shown at all. It's just the government making us go back to the stone age again so we'll appreciate all our modern conveniences.

We do appreciate them it's just that we are not going to pay for that shit and go thanks master BOB every fucking day we use something electric. They have got to get over their god complex and just realize they are a seller not gods gift to man or anything like that.

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I've had more explosive diarrhea than that.

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So much for muh renewable green energy. I mean despite dams being ecologically "invasive" that damage is already done and nature has gotten used to it.

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The controlled demolition of JewSA continues.

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Looks like a transformer might have shorted. Notice that they are not running the generators. You usually see the discharge where they were filming.

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you can tell that was a nigger narrating, because they pointlessly repeated themselves