Electricfag checking in. For one surge to suddenly drop a grid is suspect. There are primary relay protections, backups and backups to backups in place to isolate damage and widespread outages. Think emp, massive concentrated solar flare or precision targeted strike at just the right time/location. Rarely is human error the cause of something like this, save for 2003 U.S. northeast blackout.
I’m highly suspicious given the region affected and current events. Very dasting indeed.
is there some central command where they could literally just turn it off? Not even central, at multiple stations. Weve seen what these people do to rig our elections, should be even easier for them to pull that off.
i have an EE degree, i design medical devices, tbh i regret not getting more trade skills cause theres a yuge difference in tooling and SOP when dealing with processors and gawd forbid 15v com buses then real power. I suppose when this shit goes down i can fix led lighting and anything running off of car batteries :P Of course im not that inept but its one thing to "know" have to do something and being experienced in it, when SHTF.
In San Diego county SDGE spent millions of dollars during COVID replacing existing poles and infrastructure. Reason given for week long blackouts while we were all working from home during lockdown?.... Ability to remotely shut off individual sectors of power grid in case of "wild fires"
and then they get rid of small engines and move everyone to electric cars for complete control. Incidentally, my dad was working in SD when a fire was started by.... a hawk, holding a snake, electrocuted them both on a power line, dropped and rolled into brush.
Updoot because uname indicates a weird and offensive personality. Definitely an electrician 😂. Agree that it would be about impossible to pull off conventionally even with our level of automation. Over there? Fuhgettaboutit.
This is a former Soviet country though. Do you think they built up their infrastructure the last 30 years, NWO HQ notwithstanding, to where a small failure would cause vast swaths of a country to go dark?
That’s a great point and it’s quite possible, but I can only speculate unfortunately. We have 60+yr old technology that we still rely on today but it still functions reliably. Places like mexico and India are no stranger to reliability issues, this incident just seems to far surpass it. Plus the crypto mining excuse just doesn’t pass the sniff test
While having a bunch of dedicated machines for mining crypto will indeed cause electricity usage to probably skyrocket, I also agree that that excuse is just bullshit. There's no way it would cause a whole grid to go dark. Anybody that believes that deserves whatever insults are thrown their way.
Electricfag checking in. For one surge to suddenly drop a grid is suspect. There are primary relay protections, backups and backups to backups in place to isolate damage and widespread outages. Think emp, massive concentrated solar flare or precision targeted strike at just the right time/location. Rarely is human error the cause of something like this, save for 2003 U.S. northeast blackout.
I’m highly suspicious given the region affected and current events. Very dasting indeed.
is there some central command where they could literally just turn it off? Not even central, at multiple stations. Weve seen what these people do to rig our elections, should be even easier for them to pull that off.
Absolutely, it can be done remotely at a central location (grid operations control room) OR orchestrated in person at key locations
i have an EE degree, i design medical devices, tbh i regret not getting more trade skills cause theres a yuge difference in tooling and SOP when dealing with processors and gawd forbid 15v com buses then real power. I suppose when this shit goes down i can fix led lighting and anything running off of car batteries :P Of course im not that inept but its one thing to "know" have to do something and being experienced in it, when SHTF.
You'll be worth your weight in gold. Would it really matter though in the case of an EMP, when all electronics are fried?
See my post below yours. Are you working with pacers and defibrillators?
In San Diego county SDGE spent millions of dollars during COVID replacing existing poles and infrastructure. Reason given for week long blackouts while we were all working from home during lockdown?.... Ability to remotely shut off individual sectors of power grid in case of "wild fires"
and then they get rid of small engines and move everyone to electric cars for complete control. Incidentally, my dad was working in SD when a fire was started by.... a hawk, holding a snake, electrocuted them both on a power line, dropped and rolled into brush.
Updoot because uname indicates a weird and offensive personality. Definitely an electrician 😂. Agree that it would be about impossible to pull off conventionally even with our level of automation. Over there? Fuhgettaboutit.
I think we would all be very surprised and worried about the potential cascade failure scenarios built in to the western powergrid.
Updoot for username alone.
Oh.... and we appreciate your knowledge also!
This is a former Soviet country though. Do you think they built up their infrastructure the last 30 years, NWO HQ notwithstanding, to where a small failure would cause vast swaths of a country to go dark?
That’s a great point and it’s quite possible, but I can only speculate unfortunately. We have 60+yr old technology that we still rely on today but it still functions reliably. Places like mexico and India are no stranger to reliability issues, this incident just seems to far surpass it. Plus the crypto mining excuse just doesn’t pass the sniff test
While having a bunch of dedicated machines for mining crypto will indeed cause electricity usage to probably skyrocket, I also agree that that excuse is just bullshit. There's no way it would cause a whole grid to go dark. Anybody that believes that deserves whatever insults are thrown their way.
Can’t wait to hear Daves take on this. Also…there’s a lot of queefs in this place 🤣