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Frank posted an update 8 years, 9 months ago
Hmmm… Moe suspicious activity with infrastructure both here and in Russia…
http://themillenniumreport.com/2017/07/are-these-two-july-power-plant-explosions-related-one-in-la-the-other-siberia/
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And frequent interruption of NY Subway System? Fires in CA? Gees. How do we sort this out? (Serious question.)
Interesting thought… BUT: How frequently do fires and explosions occur at electrical substations? And these recent events are at SUBSTATIONS. Why do all these media reports keep referring to them as power plants?
I did a little internet search and there are lots of electrical engineering articles on protecting substations from fire – hence I conclude that there is a real (if small) risk of fires, etc., which is the same as I was taught when studying electrical engineering.
I also found some parliamentary papers from Australia listing out incidences and causes of substation fires for EnergyAustralia:
https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/la/papers/Pages/qanda-tracking-details.aspx?pk=197715
For the years covered in this report (2000 to 2004 YTD) there were 13 fires.
So, while it is certainly possible that these recent incidents were caused by sabotage of some sort, fires and outages at substations are certainly not unknown. And with the likely situation that there is older, sometimes “decaying”, infrastructure in many parts of the world, I would guess that the causes of these fires are more likely to be related to older, perhaps many-times patched/repaired infrastructure.
Very interesting info that you have shared. My expertise is not electrical at all and am actually scared of electricity. I think from an investigative perspective is that the frequency of substation fires in CA and in Russia appears to be very frequent. However CA is very hot and very dry and this alone may be a factor. But there has been some rumors recently which are just rumors that CA is having great difficulty with their power grid and infrastructure. The other clue is frequency of fires within Russian infrastructure which via the media appears more frequent. I have not searched for exact amount of those actual sub station fires in either place. It may be coincidental and just looks odd or there may be more to this. I can say this for sure.. American mainstream media is corrupt and for the most part fake. So we get more disinformation then real news. I treat all stories generated from the major media outlets as either false, outright lies or misinformation and disinformation.
Yes, indeed it is a problem that so much of what we read in the media has a definite “agenda” driving it making it hard to sort out what to pay attention to.
I agree that the key thing is finding out what the actual statistics and historical trends are in terms of fires, etc. in various electrical distribution networks. My initial internet search did not turn these up easily but I am sure a more dedicated search would unearth some. Regarding the large number of fires that seem to occur in Russia and the USA, it could just be that there is more agenda driven propaganda going on for these nations, and hence more speculative story telling about fires (and disasters in general).
I too am rather scared of electricity. If anything, studying a degree in it made me more so! I got quite a few nasty shocks while doing lab experiments and tutorials… and our lecturers were very keen to share urban myth style stories of electrical things gone wrong 🙂
I agree that in order to speak on a subject the facts should be confirmed and stats are a great starting point. As far as the grid those areas are on FHS watch list and regarded as a possible target on their list. However that doesn’t mean every fire is an intentional act.
As for shock and fire i treat anything electrical as a threat and hazard. I like not being shocked into or turned into a human inferno…. Just saying. 😳