Posted on 11/26/2015 7:27:41 PM PST by RaceBannon
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Jacki Talks with Dr. Peter Pry about protecting the electrical grid from a terrorist attack. She also speaks with Congressman Ed Whitfield about the EPA.
Peter Pry
Congressman Whitfield: 
I’d rather see it protected from a Coronal Mass Ejection like the Carrington Event and from EMPs.
Terrorist should be a distant second.
I read an article in National Review probably in 1970 about this exact subject.
William F. buckley pointed out how vulnerable our electric grid was.
PING!
sort of like the VA scandal
everyone talks about it, campaigns on it, but no one does anything about it
I am trying to remember the article but can’t recall much. I do think Buckley used the term “flow technology” to describe our vulnerability.
Basically shutting down one area will cause a whole lot more to be affected.
no one does anything about it
This. We don’t have enough large transformers or switches on hand to even come close to handling major grid damage from an act of God or man. Having just been out of power here after a windstorm (some still without power a week later) it is something I no longer take for granted. It would be very expensive to require utilities to have enough stuff on hand to repair major damage and that is the rub. The biggest transformers (the big yards near power generation) are vulnerable and those can have a major impact throughout the grid to the point that we should either bury them or put them behind concrete walls.
The #1 threat to the power grid is the EPA.
This is the next 9-11
Dang, I wish we would get our act together on this.
I think we will have a few Mumbai’s first
And when people start retaliating, that is when Obama will start rounding up patriots, weapons, the fema camps
Someone said on this site a few days ago...
all the vehicles being taken back by Obama? The MRAP’s and Bradley’s?
They are for his syrian immigrants to run...against us...
It is incredible to realize that our vulnerability is so apparent, yet those empowered to secure and defend, do not take appropriate action.
Even the most dominate species have gone extinct. When thevgrid is attacked, and it will be, America will go dark, fall to her knees and be consumed by friend and foe alike.
SECURE THE GRID NOW!
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