yup, they may even make it happen...The feds are practicing for a grid collapse.
That expertise involves running 5,800 major power plants and 450,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines, monitored and controlled by a staggering mix of devices installed over decades. Some utilities use their own antique computer protocols and are probably safe from hacking — what the industry calls “security through obscurity.”
But others rely on Windows-based control systems that are common to many industries. Some of them run on in-house networks, but computer security experts say they are not confident that all the connections to the public Internet have been discovered and secured. Many may be vulnerable to software — known as malware — that can disable the systems or destroy their ability to communicate, leaving their human operators blind about the positions of switches, the flows of current and other critical parameters. Experts say a sophisticated hacker could also damage hard-to-replace equipment.
yup, they may even make it happen...The feds are practicing for a grid collapse.
They can practice the mechanics of it until the cows come home and still not have a clue.
They do not know us - the people. They can’t factor it in because they don’t know who we are, only who they think we are. The way the people cope, react, respond is something they will never understand.
As that’s a good thing.
Trav, ping Laz. He has a datapoint re GA teacher warning kids to lay in a food supply for a few days.
Food is never the problem. Its water. You can go hungry for a long time. Thirsty, not so much.
The Feds have already seized control of the grid, causing much waste due to over regulation.
If the collapse occurs before the drill will they cancel it?
Fix'd
“Grid collapse”. Sure...
More like, “Can we still operate to subjugate the populace if we turn the lights off on them...”
GridEx II ???
I would like to know why GridEx I failed to give “authorities” enough information to fully understand why losing the power grid in the first place was really a bad thing...
That they (authorities) need another drill, part II, to somehow learn from the first one???
Seems to me this is all about how to react, instead of prevention in the first place...
I guess it is to practice how better to lock down and control the population of this country...
Almost to the point where they hope it happens...
Ehhhh, why should anyone worry...It’s the goverment, and they are here to help.../sarc