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419 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 11h \ parent \ on: The Factory Workers Who Build the Power Grid by Hand - WSJ news
The article was very light on the details of what takes so much skill in this work. Apparently wrapping the wires takes fifteen years to learn how to do? While this is unbelievable, the very fact that they have people doing it by hand implies there's something weird here -- I mean, have we really failed to invent a machine that builds transformers?
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123 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 11h
It’s news to me that this is done by hand but a friend of mine had a job designing transformers for a municipal power company.
I think the issue is that they have to be built to purpose for some reason and you can’t just go to Transformers R Us to get a mass produced one.
It must be prohibitively expensive to design a sufficiently flexible transformer making robot.
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