Interesting comment on Twitter:<p>> "having talked to a guy who works at a (German) transformer manufacturer - it wouldn't be that hard to mass produce slightly shittier transformers by simplifying the designs a bit, it's just that there's no market for it"<p><a href="https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/1789792484450615623" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/1789792484450615623</a>
There is no mention of the financialization of investor-owned utilities and the consequent shift away from scheduled maintenance to run-until-fail. The discussion is of things that could knock down <i>even a properly maintained infrastructure</i>, which is not what we have.