Posted on 05/14/2018 8:37:04 AM PDT by Perseverando
Your local utility is more interested in cramming a “Smart Meter” down your throat (and hence creating yet ANOTHER vulnerability) than in addressing this threat.
I am beginning to think that plain old acts of sabotage from sleeper cells entering the US everyday in the name of diversity combined with cyber attacks will be the way this happens. Many of our enemies best attacks have been low tech use what you have and be damned the losses as there is a greater like awaiting you in paradise. With most of the biggest transformers now made in China you can be sure they will turn the screws on us. I have no doubt that we would in the end overcome such an attack, but the cost would be great.
Oh, OK...are you sure?
>> one huge solar flare. Then the side facing the sun is affected <<
Maybe so. But even then, destruction of approximately one-half of the world’s productive capacity could set back the other half of humanity by maybe as much as hundred years.
The local utilities were forced by legislation to “cram” those smart meters out to the public. Millions per utility have been spent on that nonsense.
In before the Carrington Event deniers!
“A long-term outage owing to EMP could disable most critical supply chains, leaving the U.S. population living in conditions similar to centuries past,
prior to the advent of electric power,” said the July 2017 report provided Secrets."
“In the 1800s, the U.S. population was less than 60 million, and those people had many skills and assets necessary for survival without today’s infrastructure.
An extended blackout today could result in the death of a large fraction of the American people
through the effects of societal collapse, fuel shortage, disease, and starvation.
While national planning and preparation for such events could help mitigate the damage,
few such actions are currently underway or even being contemplated,” added the executive summary."
"I'm here from the government, and I'm here to help."
Right ! Tell that to the people of Puerto Rico, if you need a recent example.
Do you have the necessary skills to survive a year,... or more ?
Water, food, shelter, transportation, communications, medications, ability to defend yourself and family,
necessary skills training, or a work around the loss of electricity ?
If you can't protect it, ..you don't own it !
YMMV !
PING.
EMP Commission warns ‘blackout’ of electricity, food, water to last ‘year or longer
You are right as it would be very much like Puerto Rico many times over and if they thought the delay and the slowness of the recovery was great in Puerto Rico imagine what it would be like with everyone is pretty much in the same boat and can offer little to no help to their neighbors.
That’s right.
The Deep State, Gaia worshipers/Environmentalists, et al would welcome such an event.
Puerto Rico is still in bad shape and huge resources have been spent on fixing that minor disruption.
Or hours like in March 1989. "Geomagnetic storms represent an approximation to an E3-induced voltage effect. The experience to date is of events that may be orders of magnitude smaller in scope and less severe than that expected from an EMP" From the report: http://www.empcommission.org/docs/A2473-EMP_Commission-7MB.pdf page 43. That's pretty iffy and hand-wavy. They don't explain, for example, how the widespread nature of the EMP causes more damage. It will certainly cause a wide outage. But they do not specifically state what long term damage is caused. E3 is slow and protective devices should protect transformers (p.33) so they resort to handwaving about E1 and E2.
Iran and North Korea...
Spam.
That's an easy one. It's the same reason that PR had a three day outage without any storm: http://energia.pr.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Expert-Report-Revenue-Requirements-Fisher-and-Horowitz-Revised-20161123.pdf There's no valid comparison to the mainland US grid.
While I’m not a denier, I do believe that the EMP thing isn’t well understood.
Like someone mentioned here, it would take dozens (Way more, in my analysis) and they have to be repeated several times to get full coverage.
But you don’t need an EMP To get this effect. You need a computer virus.
We don’t need to look for missiles in the sky from another country. We need to look at some dude in his basement writing the perfect virus. And that is WAY more scary.
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