Hmmm, why Florida? It's almost as if the deep state and China are quietly trying to take someone out down there that's been a thorn in their side.
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Being able to work remotely prevents workers from dying due to incidents like Chernobyl.
A water plant is not a nuclear power plant. Genius.
Best to risk your life -- like risking your life every day while driving a dangerous vehicle capable of killing people -- to protect the public from accessing tainted water supply.
To further break it down in a way you can understand, as it pertains to petroleum being transported through pipelines, humans calculate the initial pressure needed to send the petroleum from say NY to TN but there's booster stations along the way to help it maintain a certain amount of pressure for it to reach it's destination. The reason why these booster stations are unmanned and SCADA is so useful here, is because it can dynamically change the pressure needed to keep that petroleum flowing through the pipe without causing it to burst or it can detect issues in transportation and close valves automatically as needed then send an alarm to a designated SCADA team. Humans cannot calculate the changes needed in pressure that quickly with tons of oil moving that fast. It's literally impossible.
From an economics stand point, your idea of having fully manned sites for all these companies, would cripple them financially and you wouldn't even get your oil or water in the first fucking place because they'd barely be able to afford to keep the lights on. A senior fluid dynamics engineer costs about 100k a year and a SCADA engineer is about the same and you're talking about having a whole team of these dudes on every site. Might not literally cripple them but quality in other areas would suffer because the oil companies and water companies would cut costs somewhere to compensate for that.
The cost of safety > public health problems
You talk nonsense.
Demonstrating your illiteracy AGAIN. I've already thoroughly explained how humans are literally incapable of dynamically calculating pressure changes needed that quickly on the fly with say petroleum in transit so it's pointless to have a team of engineers at every booster station. This is what SCADA is for and how product is able to move so quickly to everyone. This situation in particular is not even a matter of the companies deliberately trying to put cost effectiveness over public safety, it's literally the limitations of the human brain because we're not fucking computers. Maybe we could do this after Elon Musk implants everyone with Neural Link but until then, it ain't happening buddy.
Also I never claimed that a nuclear power plant was literally the same as a water plant. Learn to read. But water plants do unintentionally create toxic chemicals through the treatment processes. Look it up.
Okay, look, dumbass. You mention Chernobyl, idiot. You were comparing water plants to nuclear plants, dumbass. Everything in life has risk, idiot. Even sitting in front of your computer causes health risk, dumbass idiot. Inhaling the polluting chemicals in the air causes harm to your lungs, idiot. Probably a dumb, uneducated individual that is offended in being wrong. Keep at it. I hope it makes you look smart, idiot. I've studied SCADA. A WAN network is an option for convenience, dumbass -- Keep drinking the tainted water, idiot. I stated for a LAN network to be used to avoid intruders on the internet, dumbass.
1991 is a boomer?
Again, you didn't READ. I just mentioned that SCADA is used in the water, oil, and waste industries' logistics, etc. Me pointing that fact out is not me saying water plant = nuclear plant YOU FUCKING MORON.
SCADA uses HMI's as well as PLC's which means that at most they operate at the data link layer. Knowing that this is how they operate, how is it that a WAN network is an option for convenience when these are remote locations?