A year or 2 ago, some assholes were shooting substation in the hopes of causing major damage. Im sure data centers got a smaller version of this
Those 5 green blocks are radiators. One of those assholes shot and damage a few of the radiators at a critical substation. It caused power loss to about 7k people including schools and a hospital. The news story said they had to truck in temp substations until they got the new parts to repair. ETA was 6 months to a year.
Sorry, kinda went on a tangent. Good luck with your AI recipe that uses 5 gallons of salt or whatever.
I’m going to take this opportunity to rant about a Ukranian tactic of drone plus thermite bucket.
You can get fine aluminum and iron oxide powder online easily. A sparkler sets it off or even a superheated wire.
The Ukrainians have been having great success at using thermite to forcibly evict Russians from their trenches, and sometimes, from their mortal coils as well.
Intellectually speaking, A strip of magnesium acting as a fuse would work, but require lighting before the trip. In practice, though, someone could get hurt, so only do this for science.
A cigarette is the classic slow-acting fuse that will give you 3-5 minutes. In college, we would hook them up to firecrackers, and then go hang out near the RA, so when it went off, we had a fool-proof alibi. The bang would destroy all evidence of the cigarette fuse.
We once set 3 at once and then were hanging in plain sight near the RA when the first one went off. We all ran to that one, and then we heard another one go off down another hall, etc. We were standing next to the RA when all of them went off. The PERFECT crime.
The drone already has electricity from a battery. Surely you could utilize it in some way. You also know with a drone that it will be flying fast and crashing into something, maybe the force of the impact could be used. This is all for a school project right?
Thermite in a bucket melts through the bucket and then dribbles out, melting/burning through just about anything it lands on. When delivered via drone, you don’t want to crash the drone since you can keep targeting that stream versus just making a puddle.
A year or 2 ago, some assholes were shooting substation in the hopes of causing major damage. Im sure data centers got a smaller version of this
Those 5 green blocks are radiators. One of those assholes shot and damage a few of the radiators at a critical substation. It caused power loss to about 7k people including schools and a hospital. The news story said they had to truck in temp substations until they got the new parts to repair. ETA was 6 months to a year.
Sorry, kinda went on a tangent. Good luck with your AI recipe that uses 5 gallons of salt or whatever.
I’m going to take this opportunity to rant about a Ukranian tactic of drone plus thermite bucket.
You can get fine aluminum and iron oxide powder online easily. A sparkler sets it off or even a superheated wire.
The Ukrainians have been having great success at using thermite to forcibly evict Russians from their trenches, and sometimes, from their mortal coils as well.
Probably a bad idea to buy it online.
How would they even remotely trigger such a device nobody should consider building?
Intellectually speaking, A strip of magnesium acting as a fuse would work, but require lighting before the trip. In practice, though, someone could get hurt, so only do this for science.
A cigarette is the classic slow-acting fuse that will give you 3-5 minutes. In college, we would hook them up to firecrackers, and then go hang out near the RA, so when it went off, we had a fool-proof alibi. The bang would destroy all evidence of the cigarette fuse.
We once set 3 at once and then were hanging in plain sight near the RA when the first one went off. We all ran to that one, and then we heard another one go off down another hall, etc. We were standing next to the RA when all of them went off. The PERFECT crime.
Can’t get away with it today, too many cameras.
Also, modern cigarettes go out on their own if not consistently puffed.
In school, we used a magnesium fuse in a puddle of glycerin.
The drone already has electricity from a battery. Surely you could utilize it in some way. You also know with a drone that it will be flying fast and crashing into something, maybe the force of the impact could be used. This is all for a school project right?
Thermite in a bucket melts through the bucket and then dribbles out, melting/burning through just about anything it lands on. When delivered via drone, you don’t want to crash the drone since you can keep targeting that stream versus just making a puddle.
I was thinking model rocket engine igniters would do the trick.
Funny those guys seem to have returned to their hedge now that Trump is back in power.
They are to busy with their new ICE jobs to entertain such notions any longer.
Why shoot substation for free when ICE will pay them to shoot minorities and their supporters instead.
I doubt their schedule is so busy they couldn’t do both.