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Any more reason needed to have your state with the capability of removing itself from the grid and supplying local power to customers.
There would be some states severely in the toilet, but others with a net surplus. Finding out who right now would be important.
...knowing that one of the more important power producers in your area had already shut down seven that’s right seven coal fired power plants up to fifteen years early that’s right fifteen years early to avoid problems, not with outages, no, problems with the terrorist at the EPA.
...and if this isn’t a manufactured crises by the terrorists in DC I’ll be really surprised. Time for an all FR PING
Some regions can produce more power than they need, some produce less. In the event that EVERY SINGLE ONE of these connecting transformers FAILED COMPLETELY there would still remain the generating capacity. The regions capable of producing more than they need could simply cut back to produce only what they need. The regions not capable of producing all that need could still produce all that they could, and provide rolling blackouts to make up the difference. It would be inconvenient, but hardly life threatening.
There is simply no scenario where every single transformer, and every single generator in the US gets simultaneously fried, incapable of repair. Never discount the ingenuity of man.
In the first map, I could not make out the key to what the green blobs and the red blobs are defining. Do you know?
“The core of our grid – what makes it tick – are the transformers that pass power from one node to the next. These often weigh in the hundreds of tons. Most are no longer produced in the United States, so any damage would require the importation of parts or complete units from China.”
From China.
You know what the difference is between the Boy Scouts and the US Government?
The Boy Scouts had adult leadership for decades.
I don’t get it ...it seems like all it would take would be about 5 guys per state taking out substations by using shotguns and/or aluminum foil strips on mylar balloons. I’m surprised nobody has done it yet.
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