Hedges
I See Electromagnetic Fields!
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2020
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Copper price history (grey bars are recessions):
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Dollar purchasing power
I’ve purchased a large selection of butt connectors. I hate them like the scourge and there’s places where you shouldn’t use them but as the cost of living increases people are going to start to piece things together.
I keep old extension cords and cut off old appliance cords and have used them many times for small system wiring. Not pretty but they work.
PG&E likes to do that with short sections of 30" high pressure gas pipe.
Just ask the residents of San Bruno.
I literally just got off the phone with my internet provider who call to explain why my service was out. He said the the wiring from the pole just past my house had been stripped for the copper. He informed me that this has been on the rise in the last few weeks.
Carzy.
There has been a lot of similar cases in the UK over the last 5 years - often gangs pulling out underground cable with a truck
Fortunately we're fully fibre to the premises - just hope the average thief can tell the difference between glass and copper before they pull it!
I was about to say the same about my Gbit fiber.