[giardini]

ethbr1 says "...or we use our newfound great power to annihilate each other."

That isn't possible without bio-warfare. I sometimes hear people foolishly speak of a shooting "race war" in the USA but always remind them that the active phase of such an event would last about 15 minutes.

[ethbr1]

Distributed mass hunting rifle shots on high voltage transformers.

Unguarded. Scattered around the country. Any oil leaks potentially destroy them. Manufacturing backlogs of multiple years.

https://www.energy.gov/oe/addressing-security-and-reliabilit...

The only thing that's kept domestic terrorism to a minimum is that anyone smart enough to do it well has better economic opportunities.

[more_corn]

The tragedy is that several players in the transformer market went out of business because they ramped up due to the building boom before the financial crisis. If I weren’t busy I’d go buy one of those old factories and open it back up. Great boring business to be in.