[Freedom56v2]

Doesn’t the military use our electric grid?

I will answer, yes they do...

Altho some of their military grid is hardened, much goes across civilian grid, so why wouldn’t you want to harden the grid when you say “One more thing. The more we shy away from building up our defense forces, the sooner we’ll see a nuclear exchange?”

[familyop]

"Doesn’t the military use our electric grid?

I will answer, yes they do..."

They don't need it, though.

[familyop]

"...so why wouldn’t you want to harden the grid when you say “One more thing. The more we shy away from building up our defense forces, the sooner we’ll see a nuclear exchange??"

Oh, I'm all for it. Convince your regional power company to make plans for rebuilding, if the local investors aren't too corrupt for that. Some writers have misled us, when they said that the whole U.S. has one monolithic power supply. Even the components are different from one area and another.

The greatest improvement for power companies would be to have plans, materials and components to build new power plants in some of the smaller cities. That's a possibility, where local business and government leaders are not too selfish and lazy to bother. Finding employees for power plants in big, temporarily toxic cities might be difficult.

Each of us should have our own plans and supplies to get by, though, to lighten the load for everyone else. That dreaded solar energy can power the right kind of freezer (Sundanzer, etc.). Gardening and home canning would work well too, for non-Malthusian folks.