Posted on 12/31/2023 4:53:08 PM PST by TexasKamaAina
That won’t get any further than a tank of gasoline. Californians won’t be able to cross the desert.
The bulk of the Texas grid still is isolated and run by ERCOT. Texas has three HVDC interconnection points a north ,east and the railroad HVDC they can only pass about 500 megawatts each so a drop in the bucket compared to the 85,000 megawatts ERCOT capacity.
Texas is also not in synchronous to the Eastern or Western interconnects the 60hz of the Texas grid is not the in phase with either the East or Western interconnects so AC-AC connections are impossible. It would require a black start event in Texas on purpose to sync the grids as in a total blackout then start the Texas grid with external power and frequency control from either the Western or Eastern grids. In other words never going to happen. There is a small 100 megawatt variable frequency transformer in the Del Rio area that allows Texas to shift 100MW to and from border Mexico by shifting the 60hz phase to phase with the Mexico grid. There was a plan to build the three sisters HVDC grid tie in the Texas panhandle this was to be. Very large 5000 megawatt three way HVDC TO HVAC bridge the cost was in the billions and Texas would lose its exemption from Federal DOE oversite the voters put the stop to it with legislation post haste.
Hey that’s my birthday! Wayyy Koool!!!
I go around humming "Send us thine Asteroid Oh Lord" every now and then. Ok, on a weekly basis.
However, there is nothing certain in life but change. And change means there is always hope. Unless you are dead and then there is no change possible.
I didn’t bother to read it.
I’ve been watching fireworks - the ones from London and Rio were spectacular!
The rise time of such an event would be thousands of times longer than the rise time of an EMP impulse. Long enough for protective gear to operate.
And EMP pulse would be a different matter.
We are doomed!
Yup...in a fervent heat. I’ve always considered the massive coronal ejection idea....now suppose a very fast seriously massive body hits the sun at an angle such that a huge chunk of photosphere is sent toward earth...envelopes the earth and heats our atmosphere to about 1,000 degrees F..
The only thing good about it...some people would stop being concerned about being misgendered or if they were “diverse” or not. There would be two kinds of people
Tuco,..those who are dead and those who are dead.
A reply that offers information instead of a reflexive brain fart! Rare, indeed. Thank you. I still wonder how widespread that protection is and if it would be effective in a Carrington event, something that is supposed to have a 1 in 8 chance of occurring within any decade.
I know that dod is in no way hardened.
I have it on good (Congressional) authority that we have seven years and some change left. 🙄
I won’t type the words here, but as a hint; This story is very like that dark brown, very smelly fecal matter that spews from the south end of a northbound bull when he’s all riled up about something.
Meanwhile, there is a ship of Lithium-ion batteries burning off the coast of Alaska. Any of the batteries that ‘survive’ will be just fine. /s
And all those batteries are to ‘save the planet.’
PS....what fuel did the ship full of batteries use to travel across the ocean?? Wind?? Solar?? Pixie Dust??
2014
Army to build blast- and EMP-proof launch-control building for Alaska-based missile defense
U.S. Army missile-defense officials are constructing a special building hardened against blast and electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) at Fort Greely, Alaska, for command and control of anti-ballistic missiles to protect help protect the United States from enemy nuclear missile attack.
I say nationwide strike if Biden wins.
This guy, Doug Vogt, cites evidence that the Sun goes mini-nova every so often, and wipes out all humans not living deep inside of caves: https://www.youtube.com/@dieholdfoundation6705
Says the next one is due in about 36 years.
Cheerful character.../s
From the Prophecy 3 after Gabriel is made mortal:
Zophael Jones : Killing you would be so easy.
Gabriel : Yeah? Fried food can kill me, a mugger can kill me. You’re not so special down here, Jones!
Serious to perhaps catastrophic solar flares are increasingly likely as the earth’s magnetic field continues to weaken, as it’s been doing for the last several decades.
This situation is exacerbated by the migrating magnetic poles...
That said, the chances of a huge flare being aimed directly at us are rather remote.
The discharge of massive energy nuclear devices loaded with EMP producing nuclear material will do as much damage. The real threat is such devices may already be in orbit, waiting the signal to drop to earth and be set off at the exact position.
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