Posted on 04/08/2014 1:24:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Granted, trying to understand ISO's, RTO's and the various aspects of the electric power industry is tough, if one is going to write about it, I would hope they would read and learn about it first.
And, I am NOT saying, by any stretch, the grid is immune from hackers, sabotage or terrorist activities. But, does anyone know where they get their power from?
Baby, it’s cold outside,,,
Not long after that, a tornado completely destroyed a tire plant that produced 30 percent of the tire production capacity of the company I worked for. It's not easy to find production capacity of specific sizes of tires for millions of tires per year. Friends of mine were responsible for this. It took them a whole week to find alternative sources. No auto production plant was even shut down. They did work very hard that week.
I vote for weeks, not years, to deal with "destroyed" substations. There are alternatives other than sitting around for two years waiting for China to build transformers.
Urban "groceries" of all stripes would be stripped of food in a matter of hours.
I would not want to live near a large urban area that was without power for months or even weeks.
A wood gas generator can run a generator, if you know how to build and operate it.
FEMA even had a brochure on how to build them, once upon a time.
I've actually built and used one, so I know how to make it work.
/johnny
Taking out nine substations doesn’t take out electrical production capacity. It makes it more difficult to equalize generators with users. It could lead to rolling blackouts, brownouts, manual equalization efforts, and things like that. A complete shutdown of all electrical generation in the US for a year and a half simply wouldn’t happen. These stories are fear mongering, not legitimate disaster planning.
Good job. Keep publishing these things til the muslims figure it out!
And we wonder why they bad things happen here...
Well, that’s what the conspiracy theory is.
Preppers’ PING!!
Hat tip to Whenifhow for the heads up!
You wouldn’t need to take out all 9 to bring the country to it’s knees.
Just take out 1 or 2 in the most populated areas and 10’s of millions of people would flee to the unaffected areas.
There is no way the unaffected areas could absorb that massive number of people.
The unaffected areas would have to be placed under martial law to handle it.
This was the Russians idea during the Cuban missile crisis.
It will take longer than that. Power lines will need to be replaced [from the riots that occurred] in addition to all of the carnage from the aftermath of this event. I am willing to bet it would take years to repair, including our society.
Bump for later
In his defense, he's riffing off a government agency's contention. I get a sense the government agency is attempting to justify the use of "more government" to resolve a problem that doesn't exist, in fact. But, if the problem is made to sound scary enough, the people will be stampeded into demanding action/help.
“Duhhhhh...and this is made public knowledge, because?!?”
There is absolutely nothing secret about it and people need to know in order to prepare for the possibility.
/johnny
Thanks for the good news.
Very valid point.
The “national” grid needs to be configured so that there are AC-DC-AC boundaries with trip-trigger at the state boundaries for any power line that crosses the state line.
In the event of a massive power surge, this will work to isolate the pulse to state boundaries.
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