"Only 40,000 amps"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TJrF4h0AeKU

#Electricity #Physics #Experiment

"Somehow, we’ve made the industrial equivalent of a Fabergé egg the linchpin of our civilization. What would happen if someone started breaking them?" Christopher Cox for The New York Times Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/magazine/national-blackout-power-electricity-outage.html?src=longreads #power #electricity #transformers #reporting #longreads

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/659076-first-of-its-kind-solar-power-plant-in-south-africa-built-right-under-eskoms-nose.html

I am glad that another large scale #PV power project has come online.

But then my confusion starts.

They built a PV power plant, to power a...coal mine. exclusively. no grid feedin.

A coal mine that feeds a monster-sized coal powered power plant (that feeds national grid)

Are we, as a civilization, really this fucken stupid?

*checks notes*
ok, seems we are.

fuck.

#SouthAfrica #Electricity #ClimateChange

More will certainly follow

Largest #US #PowerGrid #PJM orders emergency curbs as #electricity use nears record peak

The largest US #power #grid operator PJM on ‌Friday ordered customers enrolled in #emergency electricity-reduction programs to curb their use as it battled generator outages, overloaded transmission lines & a surge in air-conditioning demand during a prolonged heat wave.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ExtremeWeather #temperature #GlobalWarming #HeatWave
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/largest-us-power-grid-pjm-says-it-is-no-longer-able-provide-expected-energy-2026-07-03/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

The $94 Million Smart Meter Surveillance Scheme Exposed

https://youtu.be/onYWQJsWFpk

Sacramento residents discovered their utility company has been secretly feeding their private energy data to police without warrants, leading to a massive surveillance operation that generated $94 million in fines. This explosive investigation reveals how SMUD transformed smart meters into government spy devices, monitoring when you shower, sleep, or use appliances.

Innocent homeowners faced armed police raids for using electricity to power medical equipment or mine cryptocurrency. One resident was forced outside in his underwear at gunpoint, while another disabled veteran was threatened with arrest for refusing warrantless entry. The surveillance threshold dropped dramatically from 7,000 to just 2,800 kilowatt hours per month, making air conditioning use suspicious in Sacramento's brutal heat.

Internal documents expose how SMUD analysts actively mined customer data for police, checking over 10,000 homes in a single month. Despite California law explicitly prohibiting utilities from sharing precise meter data without warrants, SMUD violated these protections daily for a decade.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit could reshape smart meter privacy nationwide. With the October 2025 court decision approaching, every American with a smart meter needs to understand how their utility company might be spying on them right now.

#SMUD #SmartMeters #EFF #Privacy #Utilities #Electricity #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Spying #4thAmendment #WarrantlessSearch #Constitution #CivilRights #Courts #Lawsuit #SCOTUS #Cops #Police #Extortion #Fraud

@privacy@a.gup.pe @infosec@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe