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To: upchuck
urging the government to rapidly harden the U.S. electric power system against EMP
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I hear doing it would be relatively cheap, like 2 billion for basic protection, and 10 billion for everything.

Why this hasn't been done puzzles me, and it should puzzle you too.

7 posted on 09/24/2018 5:17:22 PM PDT by sailor76 (Trump is our last hope!)
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To: sailor76

Those numbers are way too low.


21 posted on 09/24/2018 5:30:46 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: sailor76

I have heard hardening the grid during construction or production of devices adds very little cost to the project, but retrofitting items is very costly.


28 posted on 09/24/2018 5:47:32 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: sailor76

“I hear doing it would be relatively cheap, like 2 billion for basic protection, and 10 billion for everything.

Why this hasn’t been done puzzles me, and it should puzzle you too.”

They want us dead.


44 posted on 09/24/2018 6:39:31 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: sailor76
Why this hasn't been done puzzles me, and it should puzzle you too.

Maybe if Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon, etc. would get in the business it would happen.

Naw, let's buy some F-35s and find some pre-industrial societies to bomb instead...

47 posted on 09/24/2018 6:57:39 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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Why this hasn't been done puzzles me, and it should puzzle you too.

Probably for the same reasons we don't have a border wall: sloth, politics, and political payoffs.

74 posted on 09/25/2018 6:11:55 AM PDT by Gritty (This is what the other side is all about. Hate and bullshit is their political platform.-DJ Trump Jr)
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