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Heathrow Shutdown Shows How Electrified World Depends on One Device
Reposted by Lauren Rosenthal
Akshat Rathi
@akshatrathi.bsky.social
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For the past few months, I’ve been working on a story that was set to reveal this week one of the biggest bottlenecks to our clean, electrified future. Then on Thursday night, it blew up.
Not my story, but the very thing—transformers—I was reporting on. Gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-bottlenecks-transformers/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0Mjg5MzQ2OSwiZXhwIjoxNzQzNDk4MjY5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVE5YV05EV1gyUFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwQzg4NkY0NTI0NzY0RUE0OEY2QTk4RTk1NDc5RTI2NSJ9.SPbg7_e7GzsxEz6p9X-s3CJxirBQrzH3mXAymBKZTa0
Heathrow Shutdown Shows How Electrified World Depends on One Device
A shortage of transformers is causing delays to power projects everywhere, holding trillion-dollar industries hostage—and that was before tariffs.
www.bloomberg.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
@akshatrathi.bsky.social
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For the past few months, I’ve been working on a story that was set to reveal this week one of the biggest bottlenecks to our clean, electrified future. Then on Thursday night, it blew up.
Not my story, but the very thing—transformers—I was reporting on. Gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-bottlenecks-transformers/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0Mjg5MzQ2OSwiZXhwIjoxNzQzNDk4MjY5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVE5YV05EV1gyUFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwQzg4NkY0NTI0NzY0RUE0OEY2QTk4RTk1NDc5RTI2NSJ9.SPbg7_e7GzsxEz6p9X-s3CJxirBQrzH3mXAymBKZTa0
Heathrow Shutdown Shows How Electrified World Depends on One Device
A shortage of transformers is causing delays to power projects everywhere, holding trillion-dollar industries hostage—and that was before tariffs.
www.bloomberg.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
https://bsky.app/profile/akshatrathi.bsky.social/post/3ll6w5wchnc2z