Posted on 02/25/2024 1:13:52 PM PST by george76
Imagine a world where you couldn’t call or text anyone, you couldn’t put gas in your car, you could pay for things, and there was no tap in your water. A nightmare, right?
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Hollywood actor Dennis Quaid is warning that such a scenario isn’t a foreign possibility.
During an interview with Tucker Carlson, Quaid highlighted the dangers of a solar storm that could kill more than 90 percent of the population within a year.
“Basically, there is a 100 percent probability that our sun, generating what they call a GMD, which is a solar storm, that hits hard, hits our Earth, and the magnetic field we have around the Earth, and can fry everything that is electric above the ground, including our entire grid,” Quaid said.
Everything from transportation, our finance system, phones, internet, food delivery, and other aspects of modern life would become obsolete.
“There wouldn’t be water in your tap. You couldn’t get gas for your car because the whole system is broken down. Everything we rely upon would be gone,” Quaid told Carlson, noting that China and Russia have done more than the U.S. to protect their infrastructure.
The Hollywood actor said that those who live in the country would have far more resources and chances at survival than city dwellers. However, Quaid stressed that our society is so heavily reliant on the grid that such catastrophic damage would be expensive and nearly impossible.
During the Trump Administration, the former president tried implementing measures to protect the grid. However, his efforts were halted by regulatory agencies that energy company lobbyists control. Quaid explained that many power companies are privately owned and unwilling to spend the money needed for proper protection of our power grid.
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He told Carlson that it would take roughly $100 billion to install protection relays— similar to surge protectors— that could stop transformers from being fried.
This is close to about the same amount of money the U.S. has given Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia.
Carlson also pointed out that the U.S.’s power grid could be targeted by terrorists from an EMP attack that would have similar effects to a geothermal event from the sun. A nationwide power outage could take months, or even years, to fix.
“It’s something we don’t like to think about, but it’s whether from the Sun or a bad actor, this is something that 100 percent risk it’s going to occur, and we are just in no way prepared for it,” Quaid concluded.
Well, if a Hollywood actor told Tucker Carlson…it must be true.
It appears to happen rather frequently. There have been a couple of that size since but we werent hit. There was evidence that one did in the late 900s and the one that caught us in the late 700s was 10x Carrington.
We have just been lucky so far.
We don’t need a solar flare event to collapse our electric grid, over reliance on unreliable solar and wind can easily produce the same effect. Texas in 2019 had blackouts leaving millions without electric power and even water for days due to a weather front freezing up the windmills.
I want to bump this....I think this is the deep state plan. It would only take destroying large transformers in 20 substation s to take out our electric grid.
Trump recognized the threat of China and banned, via executivew order, the use of Chinese made stuff like large scale transformers in our grid.
Biden RESCINDED Trump’s executive order.
There are currently at least 200 Chinese made large scale transformers in our grid made by China. They are purported to be accessible via the internet by china. They could be taken down this way OR even sabatoged by agents on the ground. Normal replacement time for these transformers could be anywhere from 18 months to 5 years.
IF they are taken down the grid goes down and we are in chaos we would gladly take the assistance of China in restoring them. Who’s to say China doesn’t already have replacement transformers ready to go? And when they take the grid down they’ll offers assistance (troops) to restore order so they can ship the waiting transformers over? Our politicians would welcome it and then we are now living in a new China.
Dennis Quaid is a great American.
I remember reading William Forstchen’s 2009 novel “One Second After” ... messed me up for a solid week! ... and I don’t believe countermeasures have improved all that much, but America’s enemies are clearly more capable than ever of pulling this off ... especially when our recent Democrat/Communist presidents provide financial support to these vicious enemies.
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