Posted on 03/19/2014 6:11:36 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
What would you do if the Internet or the power grid went down for over a year? Our key infrastructure, including the Internet and the power grid, is far more vulnerable than most people would dare to imagine. These days, most people simply take for granted that the lights will always be on and that the Internet will always function properly. But what if all that changed someday in the blink of an eye? According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's latest report, all it would take to plunge the entire nation into darkness for more than a year would be to knock out a transformer manufacturer and just 9 of our 55,000 electrical substations on a really hot summer day. The reality of the matter is that our power grid is in desperate need of updating, and there is very little or no physical security at most of these substations.
Can you post a little more info about what you do to get water out? Thanks.
light your lamps immediately after power goes out. It's CONSTANT HOT heat out of the chimneys. It can keep up the heat in the room/s.
What about carbon monoxide?
Lady Britney Bieber’s career would go ka-put!
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You can still find hand pumps for wells. As far as carbon monoxide from oil lamps, get a battery-powered sensor and open a window slightly when it gets higher than you’d prefer. It’s not a major source of concern, unlike trying to run a generator in an enclosed area or even a kerosene heater. It’s good that you’re being cautious and thinking about it though, so many don’t think of it at all and end up paying a very dear price.
Thank you.
Because the voltage coming from the plant is very high as in the neighborhood of 500K volts which must be stepped down usually at a Hub {Distribution Center} then from there onto a substation at about 180K volts to be stepped down to around 7000 volts to your service transformer and the 225/250 volts into your home.
It is the transformers at the switching stations and the substations they are talking about not the transformer out on the power pole. Many factories still make the residential/commercial pole/slab transformers. I used to drive for a trucking company that hauled transformers for McGraw Edison manufacturing plants.
Well this administration is the most "transparent" in History.
Sure they do. And what does the power plant use for fuel? Diesel? Assuming they had a hugh 1000 gallon tank of diesel fuel, eventually they will run out. What then? There's no power to run the pumps at a gas station that sells diesel fuel. Plus the refinery that makes diesel fuel is also shut down.
Same scenario if they power it with propane. Eventually all sources of fuel for their generators will dry up.
Here's an excellent book to read on this subject: One Second After. In the book the US is crippled by an EMP, but the consequences are similar.
I guess the easiest way for me to tell you is simply to go to ths link - and use which is best for you....
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=get+water+out+of+well&sm=3
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Hat Tip to DCBryan1 for the heads up.
Fuel delivery?
Those transformers are like building a locomotive.
Anyone stupid enough not to know it already is to stupid to do anything about it.
With all the build-up of ET reality, will the next false flag have aliens zapping the power grid so martial law can be invoked? ... “Is such a thing really possible? ... Yes it is.”
Quelph Ontario- at one time made and shipped sub- assemblies to ABB.
But the grid in Texas connects all of Texas and if it goes down??
Water. Say it three times.
Thanks! I’ll check out that video.
Control systems for railroads carrying coal fail. Even some pumping stations for natural gas depend upon electricity. Generators starve and drop offline.
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