Trouble ahead! BIG TROUBLE!-----Power grid transformer shortage exposes deep supply chain collapse | Fox News

The machines that keep America alive are failing. We forgot how to replace them - Brian Tochman

We've finally admitted that electricity is as essential as water, but we did so too late to avoid disruption...
No-growth industries make choices that are perfectly rational, yet corrosive.

• You don't fund apprenticeships when there's no new capacity to staff. 
• You don't keep spare metallurgical know-how on the payroll when nobody's ordering. 
• You don't recruit ambitious 25-year-olds into a sector whose pitch is "stable, essential, and never going anywhere.

So, the utilities didn't. 

• The transformer makers didn't.
• The steel mills didn't. 
• The workforce aged in place and the labor pipeline behind it ran dry...