The Electrician's Gauge for Societal Decline
When all your copper is locked up so people start stealing scrap aluminum, you know things have gotten to a bad place.
Aluminum, by weight, will sell for about 1/5 the price of copper. Additionally, aluminum has a density approximately 1/3 that of copper. That means that for a given volume of aluminum, you will receive about 1/15 the amount of money that you would for an equivalent volume of copper.
My site was raided again last night. The assailants were unsuccessful in their efforts and were arrested on site. As they were being intercepted by police, they dropped what they were carrying, shown in the upper right of the attached picture.
That is about $20 worth of aluminum at the scrap yard. The blue stuff of the reel is Cat6 data cable and will fetch perhaps another $8 as scrap.
That's where we're at in my city; people are willing to risk arrest, jail, and a criminal record for $30, split between two guys.
When all your copper is locked up so people start stealing scrap aluminum, you know things have gotten to a bad place.
Aluminum, by weight, will sell for about 1/5 the price of copper. Additionally, aluminum has a density approximately 1/3 that of copper. That means that for a given volume of aluminum, you will receive about 1/15 the amount of money that you would for an equivalent volume of copper.
My site was raided again last night. The assailants were unsuccessful in their efforts and were arrested on site. As they were being intercepted by police, they dropped what they were carrying, shown in the upper right of the attached picture.
That is about $20 worth of aluminum at the scrap yard. The blue stuff of the reel is Cat6 data cable and will fetch perhaps another $8 as scrap.
That's where we're at in my city; people are willing to risk arrest, jail, and a criminal record for $30, split between two guys.
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