Tens of millions of dollars of damage caused by lighting one single electricity pole on fire? I don't support destroying public property but that is amazing bang for your buck!

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They did say it was a nine-figure electric pole… premium German engineering ;-)

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They used the word "pylon" in the article, which I assumed (only) meant it was wooden. Turns out I was wrong, but now I'm struggling to imagine how one can light this

on fire.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thermite baybeeeeeeee

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

That would avoid the use of fossil fuels :-)

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah… I guess people have tossed chains on other high voltage installations to cause self-destruction. We might be talking ”burned” a bit to literally?