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As Worries Over the Power Grid Rise, a Drill Will Simulate a Knockout Blow ( Nov 13-14, 2013)
The New York Times ^ | August 16, 2013 | MATTHEW L. WALD

Posted on 11/02/2013 5:49:37 AM PDT by Yosemitest


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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americanblackout; communisttakeover; dsj02; electricoutage; empdrill; gridexii; janetnapolitano; nationalblackout; nov2013; powergrid
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To: Marcella
Have you not heard of PowerFilm's Portable Remote Power ?
They're thin, flexible Solar Panels and are extremely light.
61 posted on 11/02/2013 8:41:13 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Vermont Lt
And...sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Yes, however why are the democrats so concerned now?

Murkowski Blocks Effort to Protect US Power Grid
62 posted on 11/02/2013 8:52:56 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Marcella
Remember:
63 posted on 11/02/2013 9:04:56 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: PA Engineer
WHY ?
So they'll have another crisis they can use as a "Trojan Horse" to further their VILE agenda.

Thanks for that addition link of condemning evidence ~ that the Obama minions ARE ~ doing it INTENTIONALLY in order to "Collapse the System" !
64 posted on 11/02/2013 9:14:58 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest

I have a solar panel and charger strong enough to recharge my many rechargeable batteries in a reasonable length of time and it’s strong enough to recharge my Kindle and cell phone (which won’t work if power is out). With power outages after a hurricane, I have two older phones that plug directly in the phone jack in the wall and they work. My power needs are met. Losing power won’t affect me very much except for air conditioning but I will have working fans.

If you are suggesting hospitals could have these light weight panels, they won’t have them.


65 posted on 11/02/2013 9:49:58 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Yosemitest

“that the Obama minions ARE ~ doing it INTENTIONALLY in order to “Collapse the System” !”

If you are talking about the November drill, they are not turning off the power, they are assuming it is off. I think your tin foil hat is a little tight.


66 posted on 11/02/2013 9:53:30 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Marcella
If the power goes down for more than 6 hours, most of those batteries backing up the power in those cell phone towers go dead, and that's IF they're fairly fresh.
Some have backup generators to power them and fuel such as LPG or diesel to run them for about 24 hours.
After than, even if your phones have power, they probably won;t get a connection.

I'm only suggesting those panels for individuals and if they're not shielded during the "blast"; if they're in use at that time, then they'll probably get "Fried" .
67 posted on 11/02/2013 10:04:16 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Marcella
You obviously have NOT worked for the government very much.
Accidents DO happen, and I wouldn't put it past this EVIL scum to INTENTIONALLY have that "accident" and really shut the nation's power grid off.
Then they'll 'claim' that all those email and data the Congress wants on Benghazi, the IRA, Fast and Furious, and every thing else Congress is investigating, ~ got wiped out and their computers got "Fried" during the "accident".

Yes, they're that EVIL !
68 posted on 11/02/2013 10:11:00 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest

“If the power goes down for more than 6 hours, most of those batteries backing up the power in those cell phone towers go dead, and that’s IF they’re fairly fresh.”

I think you have misinformation. When power goes off, cell phones don’t work, period. After every hurricane when power goes out, cell phones don’t work - been through that over and over. My older plug in the wall phones did work.

“I’m only suggesting those panels for individuals and if they’re not shielded during the “blast”; if they’re in use at that time, then they’ll probably get “Fried” .”

Now, it appears you are talking about an EMP blast. A study by scientists for the government tested what an EMP blast would do. Anything not plugged in to power had no damage. Devices plugged in were damaged.

They also tested cars and trucks and ambulances. A few cars/trucks turned off but started again just fine and most did not turn off. With an ambulance, the only thing that happened was a computer for medical data turned off but turned right back on with no damage.

An EMP event caused by a nuclear blast is regional unless it is over the central part of the US. In other words, if it is near the west coast, damage stops before it gets to the east coast. The damage field is more in the shape of an umbrella. If the EMP event is caused by a solar discharge, it goes in a straight line right into the power grid and takes it all out and anything plugged in is fried. If it isn’t plugged in, it is fine.

This was all in the scientists’ report and I posted this information on FR months ago. Most people have no idea how these various kinds of damage happen so they believe anything anyone says. That is why I researched it to find out what truly happens.


69 posted on 11/02/2013 10:42:08 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Marcella
Spend 8 miniutes and 16 seconds of your time and watch
70 posted on 11/02/2013 10:46:25 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Marcella
Re-read comment #58.
My brother currently works for a security company has the contracts to replace some of those batteries that are backing up most of those cell phone towers, and most of the Security-Alarm Systems in banks and hotel Fire-Alarm Systems.

EMP "blasts'' can damage, often wipe-out, solar panels when they are in use at the time of the blast.
By being in use, they ARE powered up and supplying power to either a charger or appliances.
If the "blast" happens with them "powered up", then they'll be damaged or destroyed (Proven at Kwajalein Atoll).

71 posted on 11/02/2013 10:57:10 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest
My brother currently works for a security company has the contracts to replac all by itselfe some of those batteries that are backing up most of those cell phone towers

I was out exploring one of those crannies you can find in a city and ran into a cell phone antenna kinda nailed to a water tower. It was sitting there with its butt hanging out, gated on one side and totally open to about a half a million people on the other. (If they were willing to bushwhack a half a mile) It had an expensive looking mini container looking thing under it. Not even one no trespassing sign. Sort of random don't ya think?

72 posted on 11/02/2013 11:14:56 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: Yosemitest
“My brother currently works for a security company has the contracts to replace some of those batteries that are backing up most of those cell phone towers,”

You can tell your brother they don't work after a hurricane takes out power. No cell phone works and people don't understand why my house phone still works - it's because that one plugs directly into the wall. My son called me from England after Ike came through and my house phone plugged into the wall worked. No cell phone worked.

I don't plug in the charger to the solar panel unless I'm recharging batteries so the greater part of the time the solar panel has nothing attached to it, no reason to have the charger plugged in. An EMP from a nuclear blast “might” damage it if the charger was attached and batteries in the charger, but an EMP from the sun would not harm it as the charge goes directly into the grid and not into anything outside the grid.

You believe whatever you want and I'll believe the scientists who did the tests and have the knowledge to differentiate between the types of incoming EMPs.

73 posted on 11/02/2013 11:17:10 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Yosemitest

I watched your Power Film commercial. So, you are selling or promoting Power Film solar panels.


74 posted on 11/02/2013 11:30:07 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Marcella
Those "landline" phones will only work as long as they have power.
When the batteries run out of power, normally a major junction box or "hub" that belongs to the phone company, they no longer have power to "boost the currency' coming from the phone company's home station, where it either receives its power from the power company, (and is backed up by a generator (normally LPG or some other fuel).
Once that power is no longer received, the phone lines go dead, until power is restored. I disagree about solar panels. When the EMP "charge" crosses the photocell while it's active or charging, it overloads it and damages it. (Again, proven at Kwajalein Atoll, years ago. My brother was there.)
75 posted on 11/02/2013 11:37:35 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Marcella
Not necessarily.
I've just been researching them, for a long hike I'm contemplating.
76 posted on 11/02/2013 11:38:41 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Stentor
It wouldn't surprise me.
You be surprised just how easy it is to get into the F.F.A.'s RADAR and NEXRAD Weather antenna systems that are normally on a high hill or mountain top.
But they do have "No Trespassing" Sign.
77 posted on 11/02/2013 11:43:45 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Marcella
???
Obviously you did NOT watch it,
because "PowerFilm's Solar Panels" is NOT what Take Back Your Power Film: Smart Grid And Smart Meters Exposed is about.
But rather it's a "Film" about "Take Back Your Power"
and the dangers of "trusting the government" with the "Smart Grid And Smart Meters", measuring and controlling the electricity coming into your house.
You really need to watch and LISTEN to it, and heed the warning.
78 posted on 11/02/2013 11:58:37 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest

Of course I watched it, I wouldn’t say I did if I didn’t. I know about smart meters and how they can be manipulated. I don’t have one and won’t have one. Toward the end, these solar panels are shown/promoted.

Our conversation is over.


79 posted on 11/03/2013 5:59:20 AM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Marcella
You're not a person who watches much "YouTube" , are you?
That so-called advertisement is to subscribe to that "Channel" on "YouTube" .
"PoweFilm" Solar Panels is a totally different organization.

I agree.
80 posted on 11/03/2013 5:53:26 PM PST by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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