Posted on 08/15/2016 9:04:51 AM PDT by bananaman22
Delta Airlines recently experienced what it called a power outage in its home base of Atlanta, Georgia, causing all the company’s computers to go offline—all of them. This seemingly minor hiccup managed to singlehandedly ground all Delta planes for six hours, stranding passengers for even longer, as Delta scrambled to reshuffle passengers after the Monday debacle.
Where Delta blamed its catastrophic systems-wide computer failure vaguely on a loss of power, Georgia Power, their power provider, placed the ball squarely in Delta’s court, saying that “other Georgia Power customers were not affected”, and that they had staff on site to assist Delta.
Whether it was a true power outage, or an outage unique to Delta is fairly insignificant. The incident was a single company without power for six measly hours, yet it wreaked much havoc. Which brings to mind (or at least it should) what happens when the lights really go out—everywhere? And just how dependent is the U.S. on single-source power?
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Where would you buy fuel for your 1960 tractor?
Do you mean WITHOUT power backup?
Suck it out of my cars that don’t run, and my neighbors cars that don’t run. :)
Yes. Yes I did. :)
I had never thought of that but I bet they have.
I suspect many of them spend most of their waking hours trying to figure out how to murder Christians and damage America or and Western nation.
:)
Some of the pumping stations are electrically driven.
Forty-eight hours to establish a blockade—contain the pillagers assault for two weeks and then sort out the remainder.
As one wouldn’t use infantry limited to bayonets on tanks—chose an appropriate option from the book.
Unfortunately a mob of desperate people shed civilization as snakes shed their skin.
PA system playing a recording of a generator running as decoy? as bait?
I like the idea, but not if it draws too many coordinating folks.
“Unfortunately a mob of desperate people shed civilization as snakes shed their skin.”
In addition to being prepared for a power outage we’re also prepared for mobs of desperate people and people who want to “help us” in an official capacity.
Honestly, the mobs don’t scare us as much as the latter.
++++prepared for mobs of desperate people and people who want to “help us” in an official capacity++++
Oh yes, the “we’re from the gubbmint and we’re here to help” crowd.
Avery scary bunch.
I got me a generator installed - it’s when the natural gas mains go down that I’ll be in trouble....
..3300 amps of battery storage for 20 hours which means I can use the battery for a week and a half before I worry about it.
39KW?
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No, actually it is 3300Amps rated at 20 hours.
It is a 48Volt Battery so that works out to a little over one megawatt total in 20 hours. I will not likely use more than 25killowatt a day except in very hot weather, if the weather is hot there will be sunshine to charge my batteries at the rate of nearly 12KW per hour for over 6 hours in the summer.
I realize that I have more storage than I am ever likely to use but the life of a battery is in the number of deep discharges. Taking 15 or 20% out of a battery is nothing, it will last many more years than the rated life of 7-10 years at 2000 to 3000 full discharges.
Delta went down with help. That is all.
Don’t forget the Metcalf CA test attack.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/02/the_metcalf_incident.html
Exactly true, an while the Metcalf attack occurred in April 2013 , we didn't hear about it until February 2014.
Why didn't we hear security concerns ?
All that time the Feds kept the weakness of security of the electrical grid to themselves; this was but just one, well planned, physical attack at one rural substation.
What if there were multiple attacks, timed simultaneously, in a specific geographic region,
designed to crash the system where there is maximum draw, and attempt to take the entire system down.
Metcalf was a single physical attack that showed electrical vulnerability ; what if it was coordinated with a series of electronic hacking incidents as well .. /?
As we let larger numbers of foreign nationals with unknown agendas into the country, we increasingly lose the ability to defend areas of our utilities infrastructure
whether it be electrical, water, waste, communications, mass transportation ,or simple governmental administration.
Metcalf was a practice run to crash the Silicon Valley electrical system that proved that our infrastructure is vulnerable to attack and collapse.
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