[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.

[Freedom56v2]

“...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.

I don’t think convincing some regional power companies to rebuild is going to harden the grid. This is a national security issue that should be addressed nationally...It is just as important as the border wall, and yet we are not asking the border states to build their walls... The grids, tho regional, are dependent on each other...If one goes down...cascading will occur.
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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.

Don’t think anyone is opposed to that, but that is not hardening the grid except that might take some of the nuclear plants off line, and if they lose power, that would be a huge problem for the regions around them...
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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.

Gardening, canning, solar/wind etc, great. Actually, I suspect I am more prepared than most people on this board in terms of off grid living...Believe me, I get it, but I don’t want to spend the last 25 years of my life defending off grid property and practicing off grid living because the government did not protect the citizenry—one of its main functions.

Trump is for hardening the grid; I suspect if he did not have so much da*ned resistance from the Dems, GOPe backstabbers, and media, he would have addressed it already.