Posted on 12/10/2018 6:53:37 PM PST by marktwain
They haven’t bought diddly. Just words on paper right now.
I had to look it up but does anybody here remember the Ice storm from 1998 that hit Quebec and surrounding area.
According to Wikipedia “Millions were left in the dark for periods varying from days to several weeks, and in some instances, months. It led to 35 fatalities...”
It also caused somewhere between 5 and 7 billion dollars of economic loss.
What I remember hearing was the fact that many of the emergency generation facilities installed in such critical infrastructure as hospitals, civil defense operation centers and public survival shelters started suffering mechanical breakdowns after three or four weeks of continuous operation. Something else to take into consideration.
I also find it quite amazing that in the middle of a Canadian winter the death toll was only 35 people. Obviously, the living conditions would have been less than optimal but it allowed just about everybody affected to survive.
That is one heckuva machine.
Not sure why they think this is a threat.
But the lights flickering tonight a lot. In fact right at the moment, the power here seems
...
Maybe PDJT has heard the Left, who seems to even make the stock market go down to hurt him, has players who can take out the grid and blame him...
Might be a dumb thought but would it be possible to build super large surge protectors for the power grid? I once heard someone saying it was possible.
Take the $7500 tax credit for every electric car sold and put it towards the national power grid.
There are technological ways to protect against some of the various threats.
There are some mechanisms that do rather similar to what you suggest. A comprehensive strategy is in order.
One thing we are already doing is putting berms up around the substations, so that direct attack with rifles is harder.
The globalists poo-poo the entire notion, because no one would ever attack us, according to them.
One prototype was built and tested. I think it was in 2012.
The program was started in 2008. Looks like nothing done after 2012.
Money was supposed to go into national infrastructure during the Obama presidency.
It should have gone in to projects like this.
Instead we have the insane Solyndra boondoggles to his political buddies.
I just did some searches on emergency generator failures.
Maintenance is a big factor. I will bet that over the 4 weeks operation, filters and oil were not changed as required.
Another tidbit was that older generators are more reliable than the newer due to complications for emmissions.
I found one site that showed Oregon had plans for long term use of emergency generators. Long time power outage (months) would occur in a Cascadia fault earthquake.
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