Natural gas, hydro, nuclear and like it or not...coal...makes the wheels go round.
Solar and wind will never support the population.
Get rid of the grid. The sooner the better. National security risk to be so dependent upon it.
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Wow! The electrical grid is vulnerable. You know what we should do then? We should build more electric cars so we depend on electricity even more!
The ignorance of FR is astounding at times...
Just to make it clear, this story is completely unrelated to wind or solar power. And “get rid of the grid”...just SMH and walk away
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Been done before.
Operation Outward.
Who needs a drone? We’re doing the job ourselves using just solar and wind.
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The British did this against the German war machine using thousands of weather balloons trailing thin metal wires with moderate success in occupied Europe.
Anyone with any rudimentary knowledge of how an electrical system works, would know that a fairly decent sized drone targeted at a transformer in a substation would do tremendous damage at worst, temporary large outages at best.
Likely Drone Attack On U.S. Power Grid Revealed In New Intelligence Report
An apparent attack on a power substation in Pennsylvania underscores the very real threat drones pose to domestic critical infrastructure.
By Joseph Trevithick November 4, 2021
A low-quality image showing the drone recovered after the likely attempted attack in Pennsylvania. The green lines are the nylon cables. A copper wire was attached to the bottom ends of both lines.