US seized Chinese-built transformer – but nobody knows why

now you know how the other side feels.

Uncle Intel says US suspects China can take us off grid anytime they want. From space. And they will.

They probably planted mini nukes in them which would all go off at a push of the button. Or some type of mechanism which would shut them down at a push of a button. We should NOT be buying things like that from China.

My understanding is that China is essentially the only supplier in the world now for these large transformers. That is insane. The US should make it a law that all grid critical infrastructure should be sourced from domestic sources. I wonder just how compromised our grid has become.

Uncle Intel says US suspects China can take us off grid anytime they want. From space. And they will.

My understanding is that China is essentially the only supplier in the world now for these large transformers. That is insane. The US should make it a law that all grid critical infrastructure should be sourced from domestic sources. I wonder just how compromised our grid has become.

Uncle Intel says US suspects China can take us off grid anytime they want. From space. And they will.

I believe China is the only country we buy transformers from and we don’t have any/many backups. The lead time is 18 months to have one built, and if only a couple of the larger ones go down it could compromise the whole grid

My understanding is that China is essentially the only supplier in the world now for these large transformers. That is insane. The US should make it a law that all grid critical infrastructure should be sourced from domestic sources. I wonder just how compromised our grid has become.

US Federal Government authorities seized a 226-tonne electricity transformer made by Chinese company Jiangsu Huapeng Transformer Company at Houston port last summer and took it to Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for unspecified reasons, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The lab, which is operated by Honeywell International, handles contract work for the US Energy Department associated with threats to national security, the report added.

A US representative of the company, Jim Cai, told the newspaper that it had sold more than 7000 such transformers in the past two decades to numerous international customers.

Cai was unaware of what had happened to the transformer until he was asked for comment by the WSJ.

US President Donald Trump on 1 May signed an executive order for the DoE to find and ban devices from the power grid made by foreign countries that were considered a threat to national security.

A report in Politico said Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette had recently played down concerns from industry that new clean energy projects could be inconvenienced by the order.

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Another E. O. ? Order Emerson Electric to make transformers.

Yes. They want to tear it apart to the last nut, bolt and transistor to see if there's anything suspicious.

Earlier, the Chinese hid nasty stuff in high-end server motherboards.

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Its fuckin disgraceful that we have such components made in another country, let alone China. I fuckin hate China and all the politicians that sold us out to them. All should be hung for treason.

Say what you want about Trump but he is absolutely correct with China. If anyone disagrees with his China policies they are the fucking enemy.

I seized a Chinese-built TV
myself.

Like a hidden kill switch to break the windings?


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LOL. No, moran.

They probably planted mini nukes in them which would all go off at a push of the button. Or some type of mechanism which would shut them down at a push of a button. We should NOT be buying things like that from China.

With a teenie-tiny line of implanted code.

Sorta like that teenie-tiny line of implanted genetic code in COVID.

Weaken us with a bug, thenput us in the dark.

Oh, but Russia! Russia! Russia!!!!!! --- cries the chorus of libtarded parrots.