It's the end of the world as we know it!

[SpeareChucker]

Our Vulnerable Power Grid

As a thriller novelist, I expect to be terrified by the scenarios I explore. With bioweapons, terrorist attacks, and loose nukes as my daily companions, it takes a lot to get a rise out of me. But in researching my new book, “Total Power,” I stumbled upon what I now believe to be America’s greatest weakness: Our electrical grid.

It’s been called the most complex machine in the world and that’s probably a fair description. Three thousand three hundred utility companies, fifty-five thousand individual substations, and two hundred thousand miles of transmission lines all coordinate to meet the country’s insatiable demand for power. Unfortunately, it’s this scope and complexity that makes us so vulnerable.

And this isn’t just a theoretical threat. In 2013, a meticulously planned attack was carried out on a substation near San Jose, California. It caused fifteen million dollars in damage and looked very much like a dry run for something bigger.

None of the perpetrators were ever caught and if they are indeed plotting something more ambitious, it could be unimaginably destructive.

How quickly could we rebuild from multiple hurricane attacks
in the vast regions where we worry about tornados at best?

Even our own internal anarchist movements
(even they unite, go figure)
could bring us down...



Just a thought



https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/terror-bio-attack-nukes-threat-power-grid

 

[bellisarius]

As a side note, Texas is not interconnected to the national grid.

 

[SpeareChucker]

It's a whole 'nuther country.

 

[Conager]

It would be the most catastrophic in big, blue, cities. Fuck 'em.

I would just make sun-dried jerky.

I should probably sock away enough petrol to make it to Bel's place for refueling instruction and equipment.

 

[Adre]

Actually:


“There is the Eastern Grid, the Western Grid and the Texas (ERCOT) Grid, with the Eastern Grid being the largest of the three. While all three of these grids are connected, they also also operated independently.”

 

[SpeareChucker]

It would be the most catastrophic in big, blue, cities. Fuck 'em.

I would just make sun-dried jerky.

I should probably sock away enough petrol to make it to Bel's place for refueling instruction and equipment.

I don't really want to have to shoot their refugees...



They are the worst-designed moving targets ever.

There's no "sport" in it.

 

[DeluxAuto]

It would be the most catastrophic in big, blue, cities. Fuck 'em.

I would just make sun-dried jerky.

I should probably sock away enough petrol to make it to Bel's place for refueling instruction and equipment.

Opioid addiction affects poor alt-right white trash more than normal people. Fuck you.

Is Bel your dealer, Connie?

 

[HisArpy]

Actually:


“There is the Eastern Grid, the Western Grid and the Texas (ERCOT) Grid, with the Eastern Grid being the largest of the three. While all three of these grids are connected, they also also operated independently.”

And this has what all to do with whether terrorists, of either homegrown or foreign type, can take down the power grid?

 

[Adre]

Opioid addiction affects poor alt-right white trash more than normal people. Fuck you.

Is Bel your dealer, Connie?

Yes, West Virginia. All white, all Trumpers.

 

[SpeareChucker]

And this has what all to do with whether terrorists, of either homegrown or foreign type, can take down the power grid?

Nothing.



He just has to be the loyal opposition.



If I posted that it was a nice day, he'd say, "It's midnight here!"

 

[bellisarius]

ERCOT is synchronized to itself. Entities outside of Texas must synchronize to ERCOT or be disconnected. Texas is a power unto itself. (pun intended)

 

[SpeareChucker]

AND!



It's fawkin' raining!

 

[Adre]

And this has what all to do with whether terrorists, of either homegrown or foreign type, can take down the power grid?

It has to do with an incorrect statement.

Now shut up.

 

[SpeareChucker]

ERCOT is synchronized to itself. Entities outside of Texas must synchronize to ERCOT or be disconnected. Texas is a power unto itself. (pun intended)

This one is allowed, but you are up against your Lit quota.

 

[Adre]

Nothing.



He just has to be the loyal opposition.



If I posted that it was a nice day, he'd say, "It's midnight here!"

We understand, facts don’t matter.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Adre
This message is hidden because Adre is on your ignore list.




Still fighting to be relevant.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Yes, West Virginia. All white, all Trumpers.

He's a desert dweller, another hotbed for opioid addicts.

Adre
This message is hidden because Adre is on your ignore list.

Still fighting to be relevant.

You're a coward who is only relevant to your few old racist cronies and people who make fun of you.

​

 

[SpeareChucker]

I'm a coward?




That's your best at pejorative derogation?



C'mon man! Step up your game! Try something like craven coward...

 

[Conager]

Actually:


“There is the Eastern Grid, the Western Grid and the Texas (ERCOT) Grid, with the Eastern Grid being the largest of the three. While all three of these grids are connected, they also also operated independently.”

Ackshulllly. . .the same techniques could be used against any and all grids and coordinating such attacks would require only a calendar and an analog wristwatch.

Not that is would make a difference to the outcome if they were simultaneous or not.

 

[DeluxAuto]

I'm a coward?
That's your best at pejorative derogation?
C'mon man! Step up your game! Try something like craven coward...

You have Adre on ignore. Adre?! He's benign and you still feel threatened by him.

Sad!

 

[SpeareChucker]

Ackshulllly. . .the same techniques could be used against any and all grids and coordinating such attacks would require only a calendar and an analog wristwatch.

Not that is would make a difference to the outcome if they were simultaneous or not.

Cascading would be much more effective;
let one grid get the news before they go dark.
If you suddenly go dark, you think it's just you.



I know this, because I live in an area where outages are common.


You know, tornados and sitch...

 

[SpeareChucker]

You have Adre on ignore. Adre?! He's benign and you still feel threatened by him.

Sad!

*chuckle*


One comment a quarter is feeling threatened...



You are fucking gold!



[I only mention it because he insists on posting in thread where he knows the OP has him on ignore. It's his own special sick---, er, uh, no, perversion.]

 

[Conager]

Opioid addiction affects poor alt-right white trash more than normal people. Fuck you.

Is Bel your dealer, Connie?

Typical Tweaker. You see everything through the lens of the drugs that you "don't abuse." It's Thursday. Have you started early, or are you still high from your "Tweakend" of "not abusing" meth, Luk?

"Normal people" despite what you apparently assume based on your tweaker circle are not "affected" by opioids all. They, like I, not only "don't abuse" it, we don't use it at all.

Bragging that you "aren't as affected" by opioid use as some mythical alt-right users is just silly.

Speaking of alt-right, you do knuw that Biden got the endorsement, "right?"

 

[RobDownSouth]

You have Adre on ignore. Adre?! He's benign and you still feel threatened by him.

Sad!

Like BoBo, AJ feels threatened (and personally insulted) by anyone and everyone who has the utter gall to disagree with him.

 

[Rightguide]

Our Vulnerable Power Grid



How quickly could we rebuild from multiple hurricane attacks
in the vast regions where we worry about tornados at best?

Even our own internal anarchist movements
(even they unite, go figure)
could bring us down...



Just a thought



https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/terror-bio-attack-nukes-threat-power-grid

"Somebody" in Washington tried to cut down several 12,000 volt power poles with a chain saw. The media was quick to swear that Antifa didn't have chainsaws.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/...-fbi/281-b9c5436c-f19a-418c-979e-f6ef459eca24

https://apnews.com/afs:Content:9425851801