How could you possibly harden millions and millions of miles of wiring and transformers around the country?
RE: “How could you possibly harden millions and millions of miles of wiring and transformers around the country?”
Millions of miles of wire are not the endpoint damage issue.
The concern is what will happen to the thousands of mission-critical major power transformers and power plant ICS-SCADA systems that get severely damaged by kilo volts of stray electrical currents traveling atmospherically and via power lines as a result of a sufficently powerful EMP or CME event.
Read more before further commenting.
https://securethegrid.com/emp-technologys-worst-nightmare/
The Congressional EMP Commission, since disbanded, spent eight years developing a plan to protect all infrastructures from EMP – a plan that would also mitigate threats from cyber-attack, sabotage, and natural disasters that could be implemented in 3-5 years at a cost of $10-20 billion.
The Congressional EMP Commission estimated in 2008 it would cost $2 billion to:
-> *harden the grid’s critical nodes (i.e., roughly 2,000 large and medium-sized transformers and their associated SCADA systems, etc.). <-
Modest when compared with the unimaginably high costs associated with trying to remediate after an EMP event. Yet, it has been an excuse for inaction.
The above TV documentary from National Geographic is based on Dr. Peter Pry’s book entitled Electric Armageddon: Civil-Military Preparedness for an Electromagnetic Pulse Catastrophe (2013). Dr. Pry serves as one of our experts at the Secure the Grid Coalition.
Getting ready: Pentagon to protect electric grid from massive attack
www.washingtonexaminer.com/getting-ready-pentagon-to-... Proxy Highlight
Apr 14, 2017 ... Woolsey and former EMP Commission chief of staff Peter Vincent Pry have pointed a finger at North Korea, which is now threatening the U.S..
Grid-protecting CIPA: Enacted, but in time? - Washington Times
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/14/grid-protect... Proxy Highlight
Feb 14, 2017 ... Eight years ago, the Congressional EMP Commission urged Capitol Hill ... the electric grid and other critical infrastructures from a man-made or ... CIPA implements one of the most important recommendations of the EMP Commission to ... development of new technologies to make EMP hardening of all the ...
EMP Resilience Action Plan - Department of Energy
https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/01/f34/DOE%2... Proxy Highlight
Jan 10, 2017 ... DOE Electromagnetic Pulse Resilience Action Plan .... 3.1 Establish a national capability to conduct EMP testing of grid components, systems, and ..... to the electric power system in the 2008 EMP Commission report. .... military systems and hardening standards, in order to define and release unclassified.