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The Power Grid Is Far More Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks Than Most People Realize
The Power Grid Is Far More Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks Than Most People Realize In December of 2015, 230,000 people in Western Ukraine lost power after 30 substations were mysteriously shut off. Contrary to what most people assumed at the time, this wasn’t an innocuous power outage. The authorities would later admit that the loss […]
FEMA Is Preparing For A Solar Storm That Would Take Out The Grid
FEMA Is Preparing For A Solar Storm That Would Take Out The Grid FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Administration) is planning for a massive solar storm that would be so strong, it would take down the power grid. Noting that the rare, yet “high-consequence” scenario has “the potential for catastrophic impact on our nation and FEMA’s […]
Yesterday’s Broad Power Outage Likely Caused By Geomagnetic Storm
YESTERDAY’S BROAD POWER OUTAGE LIKELY CAUSED BY GEOMAGNETIC STORM Prior session, a massive US power grid failure was seen across the entire United States in one simultaneous fashion. San Fransisco, New York, and Los Angeles were the three main areas that were hit the hardest. Each of the areas experienced challenges or shut downs in business […]
Total Chaos: Cyber Attack Fears As MULTIPLE CITIES HIT With Simultaneous Power Grid Failures: Shockwave Of Delays In San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York
Total Chaos: Cyber Attack Fears As MULTIPLE CITIES HIT With Simultaneous Power Grid Failures: Shockwave Of Delays In San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York The U.S. power grid appears to have been hit with multiple power outages affecting San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. Officials report that business, traffic and day-to-day life has come […]
Newfoundland Power ends conservation warning; 13,500 still in the dark in N.L.
Newfoundland Power ends conservation warning; 13,500 still in the dark in N.L. About 140 traffic lights in St. John’s need replacement, but city has only 30-40 spares More than 70 intersections in St. John’s were missing traffic lights Sunday afternoon due to Saturday’s hurricane-force winds. (Mark Cumby/CBC) Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro has ended its power […]
Russia Threatens Retaliation If Washington Engages In “State Cyberterrorism”
Russia Threatens Retaliation If Washington Engages In “State Cyberterrorism” In the latest startling revelation that the US and Russia are ever closer to a state of, if not “kinetic”, then certainly cyberwar, overnight NBC reported that U.S. military hackers had penetrated Russia’s electric grid, telecommunications networks and the Kremlin’s command systems, making them vulnerable to […]
Blackout: California In Power Grid Emergency: “All Customers Should Expect 14 Days Without Power”
Blackout: California In Power Grid Emergency: “All Customers Should Expect 14 Days Without Power” The entire Los Angeles metropolitan area and most of Southern California can expect blackouts this summer. The power grid is under direct threat as a result of the unprecedented, but little reported, massive natural gas leaks at Alisco Canyon that was […]
How to Get Your Apartment Off the Grid
How to Get Your Apartment Off the Grid Picture: Low-tech Magazine’s solar powered office. The typical solar PV power installation requires access to a private roof and a big budget. However, wouldn’t it be possible to get around these obstacles by installing small solar panels on window sills and balconies, connected to a low-voltage direct […]
Ottawa scientists prepare for disruptive solar weather
Ottawa scientists prepare for disruptive solar weather A tsunami of solar particles could wreak havoc on planet earth Solar flares on the surface of the sun. (Natural Resources Canada) If the threats of climate change, a pandemic or nuclear war haven’t given you enough to worry about, how about solar weather? Large-scale eruptions on the […]
Venezuela Shows Us What an Electricity Shortage Looks Like
Venezuela Shows Us What an Electricity Shortage Looks Like The SHTF might be a lot more subtle than an EMP or a massive natural disaster. We preppers tend to think in black and white, but there are some gray threats out there that few are considering. What if, instead of a total power outage, our […]
Intelligence Insider: How To Protect Your Assets From Critical Infrastructure Failure: “Power Grid, Banking System, Cyber Financial Warfare”
Intelligence Insider: How To Protect Your Assets From Critical Infrastructure Failure: “Power Grid, Banking System, Cyber Financial Warfare” Intelligence insider Jim Rickards has previously warned of asymmetric attacks using cyber warfare, financial warfare and domestic disasters involving chemical, biological or radiologicial events. The threat is multi-faceted and the consequences of such an attack, whether it takes […]
Why the Grid is getting less reliable. House Hearing 2013.
Why the Grid is getting less reliable. House Hearing 2013. House 113-40. May 9, 2013. Grid reliability challenges in a shifting energy resource landscape. U.S. House of Representatives. 176 pages. Mr. Jonathan A. Lesser, President Continental Economics, Inc. [This is a really good introduction to how the grid works and the problems caused by intermittent wind […]
Cashless Crisis: “With Digital Payments, Civilization Comes To An End Until Power is Restored”
Cashless Crisis: “With Digital Payments, Civilization Comes To An End Until Power is Restored” The coming brave new world may also be a fragile one. As most of the Western world is pushed into abandoning cash and embracing a fully digital cashless grid, it is apparent how vulnerable populations will become in times of crisis. If the […]
90% of U.S. population could be wiped out with doomsday electromagnetic weapon … Pentagon woefully unprepared
90% of U.S. population could be wiped out with doomsday electromagnetic weapon … Pentagon woefully unprepared (NaturalNews) There is growing alarm among defense planners about the uptick in nuclear weapons development taking place among the various great powers, including the United States, Russia, India and China, as well as lesser powers like North Korea and […]
Ted Koppel It’s Not A Matter Of If But When The Power Goes Out…
Ted Koppel It’s Not A Matter Of If But When The Power Goes Out…
