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How would I turn the power back on when it goes out? It would be a 6 hour drive for me to the power plant. I’ll take my odds with the VPN and satellite internet
by generatorguy 7y ago
How would I turn the power back on when it goes out? It would be a 6 hour drive for me to the power plant. I’ll take my odds with the VPN and satellite internet connection! If someone wants to cause an outage they can drive their car in to a power pole, have an earthquake drop rocks off a bank and crush the pen stocks, have a river change its course and take out 10 poles, send little animals on to the insulators to cause short circuits, have branches fall on the power lines, have droughts make the power plant run out of water... all those things already happened. if some nerd hacks in to my PLC they can’t do anything worse than I’ve already done! Someone physically breaking in to the building could cause a lot more damage, they could just burn it down!!
- cheunste 7y ago> send little animals on to the insulators to cause short circuits You don't even need to do that as it happens organically. At my company, we had a comms outage to a wind farm for several days (and the outage was wide enough where even surrounding wind farms outside of my company were affected) and just two days ago, the LEC (Frontier) discovered a bird build a nest in one of the junction boxes which links up to all the plants. All of this happened in a span of five days or so.