The comments in that article are equally informative. I copied one below that might explain yet another reason why we are being forced into electric vehicles. While the topic is about locomotives, the same principles apply for personal transportation….
I heard an explanation about the substations for Ukrainian railroads. Substations convert the current from electric network into the current that electric locomotives use. The main thing there are transformers which are not THAT heavy, and repairs take few hours -- if you have spare trs
Number 1, there are about 300 diesel locomotives in Ukraine, and 1600-1700 electric.
Number 2, the only factory for making the transformers is out of action.
Number 3, the requirements of locomotives are different than in Western Europe, and the track is different, sending material aid may require several months for retooling the production (presumably, Europeans also use electric locomotives and transformers in substationstions).
Number 4: the number of spare transformers in Ukraine was not known to the commentator, but it must be somewhat limited. Ukrainian railroad was in rather sorry financial shape, so one should not expect that it has big stockpiles of spare parts.
Disabling railroads is an escalatory move, reactive to the delivery of heavy weapons. Damaging substations is relatively easy to undo once the peace or ceasefire comes, but that requires either time to restart the Ukrainian transformer factory, or spare parts from Russia.
The comments in that article are equally informative. I copied one below that might explain yet another reason why we are being forced into electric vehicles. While the topic is about locomotives, the same principles apply for personal transportation….
I heard an explanation about the substations for Ukrainian railroads. Substations convert the current from electric network into the current that electric locomotives use. The main thing there are transformers which are not THAT heavy, and repairs take few hours -- if you have spare trs
Number 1, there are about 300 diesel locomotives in Ukraine, and 1600-1700 electric.
Number 2, the only factory for making the transformers is out of action.
Number 3, the requirements of locomotives are different than in Western Europe, and the track is different, sending material aid may require several months for retooling the production (presumably, Europeans also use electric locomotives and transformers in substationstions).
Number 4: the number of spare transformers in Ukraine was not known to the commentator, but it must be somewhat limited. Ukrainian railroad was in rather sorry financial shape, so one should not expect that it has big stockpiles of spare parts.
Disabling railroads is an escalatory move, reactive to the delivery of heavy weapons. Damaging substations is relatively easy to undo once the peace or ceasefire comes, but that requires either time to restart the Ukrainian transformer factory, or spare parts from Russia.
Posted by: Piotr Berman | May 5 2022 17:44 utc
...valid information...
...good digging....
...doggy winks....