Couple years ago on vacation this guy just started telling me how easy it would be to knock power out. Idk shit about it but you know how you’ll see those fenced off areas with all the sliver grey, I think they’re called transformers. He said you put a couple bullets in the right area on those you can have the power out for a long time
have the power out for a long time
Because certain components in that system cost tens of millions of dollars each and there's only a couple of spares for the entire united states.
Just a bit of fyi.
Tens of millions of dollars for the transformers?
Some large components of those substations are unserviceable, cost millions, take 12-18 months to produce, we don’t have spares, and they are made in China.
sub stations I believe is shat you are describing
Yes that’s it
"a long time" we had a somthing happen to our transformer up in town power was out for like 4 hours. some personal airplane went down near by and a peice of shrapnel damaged the transformer. i still dont see how a peice of shrapnel from literally 35 miles away hit it but im guessing they didnt want to admit a raccoon got in the transformer and shorted the whole system out lol
Something like that happened at my workplace a couple years ago when they found the problem a rat had chewed into the wire and a snake had bitten the rat.
a rat had chewed into the wire and a snake had bitten the rat
You're talking in code, right?
I've heard this too but never heard what "the right area" is. Starting a fire there would probably be easier.
There's a drain plug for the high insulation oil. Pull that out and it won't be able to switch circuits without arcing and damaging the contacts
Sounds like it would arc on you and damage you when taking it out
You could drain it through a bullet hole.
switching is rare, and there are tens of gallons of oil in the units to drain out
I keep hearing this. A couple bullets into a sub station. But no one ever gives any technical details.
This was literally some random guy in a hot tub telling me this
But you're not the first person to say this on an internet message board.
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