The future of power in America is obvious. State governments will make corrupt deals with data centers and factories to keep their electricity costs low, and raise prices on residential users to compensate until poor families are priced out.
Buy your solar panels now. Before electricity changes from a right to a privilege.
I used to work in automation and it’s amazing how much waste is created just in the process of creating an automated assembly line.
My company built lines that required power to motors and devices than used up to 600 volts of power. Computers and sensors everywhere. The newer lines tend to have so much more crammed into them to increase production of units. More robots and tools means more power required. Power was usually not shut off during any downtime unless we were working on something that needed to be disconnected.
The automation field is pretty amazing until I stepped back to really notice how wasteful and unsustainable automation is.
I had to leave the industry. It’s become clear to me that automation is far too destructive to the environment. Corporations and businesses have no care to make automation cleaner or more sustainable.
I don’t know how people can expect automation to create more green energy equipment when automation itself is so dirty and demanding.
My company built lines that required power to motors and devices than used up to 600 volts of power. Computers and sensors everywhere.
… how do you use 600 volts of power? power is measured in watts (joules/second, volt-amps, whatever), not volts. although i’m not questioning that you know that, considering that your job involved it, i’m just confused at the wording
I probably meant up to 600 voltage. After I went out of my way to get fired from that awful place, I quit my apprenticeship and left the absolute toxic culture of the trades world behind.
Also found it hard to justify being an electrician when electric cables need plastic insulation. Hard to separate electrical needs from the oil industry when the insulating material comes from the oil industry.
Also found it hard to justify being an electrician when electric cables need plastic insulation. Hard to separate electrical needs from the oil industry when the insulating material comes from the oil industry.
That’s a pretty extreme take. Industrial plastics are one of the better uses for oil. It’s fossil fuels and single use plastics that we have to eliminate.
