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Intelligence bulletin reveals plot against U.S. electrical grid using drone
ABC News ^ | Nov 3, 2021 | ABC news

Posted on 11/04/2021 5:23:49 PM PDT by thouworm

A newly-released intelligence bulletin, obtained by ABC News, reveals a plot involving the use of a drone to disrupt an electrical grid in Pennsylvania in July 2020.

(Excerpt) Read more at wjla.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: drone; drones; electricgrid; nationalsecurity; paping; pennsylvania; powergrid
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1 posted on 11/04/2021 5:23:49 PM PDT by thouworm
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That's one of the problems with solar and wind....it's all visible. It's also not efficient.

Natural gas, hydro, nuclear and like it or not...coal...makes the wheels go round.

Solar and wind will never support the population.

2 posted on 11/04/2021 5:28:24 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

True

“Solar and wind will never support the population.”

Never...


3 posted on 11/04/2021 5:35:12 PM PDT by thouworm ("To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth"---Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: carriage_hill; lightman

paping

hmmm....info just released. Incident occurred July 2020.


4 posted on 11/04/2021 5:37:43 PM PDT by thouworm ("To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth"---Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: thouworm

Get rid of the grid. The sooner the better. National security risk to be so dependent upon it.


5 posted on 11/04/2021 5:45:04 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
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To: thouworm

Bkmk


6 posted on 11/04/2021 5:47:37 PM PDT by sauropod
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Wow! The electrical grid is vulnerable. You know what we should do then? We should build more electric cars so we depend on electricity even more!


7 posted on 11/04/2021 5:49:19 PM PDT by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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To: thouworm

““Solar and wind will never support the population.””

Why can’t we use Coleman camp stoves with canisters of compressed solar power?


8 posted on 11/04/2021 5:58:45 PM PDT by dsc (Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans.)
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To: thouworm

The ignorance of FR is astounding at times...

Just to make it clear, this story is completely unrelated to wind or solar power. And “get rid of the grid”...just SMH and walk away


9 posted on 11/04/2021 6:02:05 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: thouworm

bookmark


10 posted on 11/04/2021 6:02:11 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: thouworm

I don’t remember the incident 2+yrs ago.


11 posted on 11/04/2021 6:05:45 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: thouworm

Been done before.
Operation Outward.


12 posted on 11/04/2021 6:06:52 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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In the 50s & early 60s Boy Scouts, we used Coleman camp stoves and lanterns with very volatile White Gas. Coleman fuel or white gas produces vast amounts of deadly carbon monoxide. Somehow we survived it all.


13 posted on 11/04/2021 6:10:23 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

“I don’t remember the incident 2+yrs ago.”

That’s the point. The drone crashed on top of a building. Which city or region in PA is not revealed in the article.

Depending on the size of the drone, there may have been no reason to report it even as a local incident in local news.

The incident was never known to the public until yesterday.


14 posted on 11/04/2021 6:11:15 PM PDT by thouworm ("To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth"---Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: carriage_hill

“Coleman fuel or white gas produces vast amounts of deadly carbon monoxide.”

That’s one good thing about tents: lots of ventilation.


15 posted on 11/04/2021 6:19:45 PM PDT by dsc (Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

“Been done before. Operation Outward.”

Operation Outward - Wikipedia

Operation Outward was a British plan during the Second World War to attack Germany by means of free-flying balloons.It made use of cheap, simple balloons filled with hydrogen. The balloons carried either a trailing steel wire to damage high voltage power lines by producing a short circuit or incendiary devices to start fires in fields, forests and heathland.


16 posted on 11/04/2021 6:20:07 PM PDT by thouworm ("To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth"---Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: thouworm

Should not have been released at all; don’t give people ideas - they have plenty of their own.


17 posted on 11/04/2021 6:20:21 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: The Antiyuppie

“Should not have been released at all; don’t give people ideas - they have plenty of their own.”

To your point (and from the article)-— odd rationale:

“Federal officials tell CNN they are distributing the intelligence bulletin now to “raise awareness about the incident and the general threat of drones to critical infrastructure.””


18 posted on 11/04/2021 6:27:36 PM PDT by thouworm ("To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth"---Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: thouworm

Who needs a drone? We’re doing the job ourselves using just solar and wind.


19 posted on 11/04/2021 6:42:56 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: thouworm
Don't forget the use of carbon “bomblets” spread over Iraq on the first night of “Shock and Awe” From wiki:

“The graphite bomb was first used against Iraq in the Gulf War (1990–1991), knocking out 85% of the electrical supply. Similarly, the BLU-114/B “Soft-Bomb” graphite bomb was used by NATO against Serbia in May 1999, disabling 70% of that country's power grid. After initial success in disabling Serbian electric power systems, the electric supply was restored in less than 24 hours. The BLU-114/B was again used a few days later to counter Serbian efforts to restore damage caused by the initial attack.

We should de-couple our “grid” but the system is based on the “purchase” of power from system to system. Harden the links against graphite and specifically EMP which a drone (one guesses) or drones may be able to release. Newt Gingrich was and is a real promoter of hardening against EMP. All modern vehicles with “computers” and needless technology— would all... quit running permanently.
Answer: keep a fully fueled (and fuel stock on hand with stabilizer in the tank) 1970’s vehicle with simple non- digital fuel sending.

20 posted on 11/04/2021 7:02:40 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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