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Another power substation attack; Dec 25 2022; Pierce County, Washington 6

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TugboatEng said:
Just hold off on assigning political blame to this in this "engineering" forum.
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We'll, you're the one who inserted 'political' inferences into this "engineering" forum, specifically at time stamps '30 Dec 22 21:58' and '31 Dec 22 19:15'.

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Gentlemen... (binary term)...

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While I have opinions on politics, there is no evidence in play that makes them germane to this thread, so I will hold my peace.
However for those who want to spar, . . . [swords]. . . please be polite.
 
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Tug,

Isn't most of our political bickering unwarranted? As long as the villains can keep us bickering, they can keep their power and ignore the little people.
 
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From the manner of damage, it would appear that the perps knew exactly what they were doing.

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I bet we all agree on this:
Critical infrastructure - including substations - should be resilient, so these facilities can withstand vandals and semi-organized bad actors and hurricanes and floods and earthquakes and years of neglect and non-maintenance. That's the only engineering I see in this thread.
And I will do better in the future to resist bloviating; else, this site will trend toward Engineering Twitter.
 
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As mentioned in other threads, our power grid is not critical infrastructure. Protecting it therefore should be left up to the utility's discretion.
 
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Maybe not in Florida (unless you are looking at AC stuff) but in N.Dakota and other northern areas including Alaska, I would consider it critical and far beyond what you would want to trust utilities with.

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Oh great. That works.

Einstein gave the same test to students every year. When asked why he would do something like that, "Because the answers had changed."
 
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