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Disconnect From the Grid, Reconnect With the Planet
DISCONNECT FROM THE GRID, RECONNECT WITH THE PLANET The grid: that vast network of utilities that includes electricity, water, sewage, gas and telephone lines. Most utility bills are predictably unpredictable. They maintain a monthly grip around the wallet, keeping most people tethered to one monopoly or another. For a growing number of people, the idea of […]
GridExIII Drill Coincides with American Terror Threat: “ISIS Cells Could Attack Our Power Grid”
GridExIII Drill Coincides with American Terror Threat: “ISIS Cells Could Attack Our Power Grid” The threat of an ISIS attack on U.S. soil has become a tangible possibility and a perhaps an inevitable one, with the Paris attacks demonstrating how easily terrorists can infiltrate Western nations and target public areas. The political chaos that is […]
Ted Koppel Is Buying Freeze-Dried Food For The Day When A Cyberattack Takes Out The Power Grid
Ted Koppel Is Buying Freeze-Dried Food For The Day When A Cyberattack Takes Out The Power Grid Most Americans have absolutely no idea how incredibly vulnerable our electrical grid is, but Ted Koppel does. For many years, Koppel was the level-headed host of Nightline on ABC, but now he is issuing a very chilling warning […]
Preparedness Tip: Cooking Without Power, Part 1
Preparedness Tip: Cooking Without Power, Part 1 Thanks to a reliable power grid Americans aren’t used to the “lights going out” often, but when they do many are surprised to also lose their cooking means—stovetop elements, ovens, microwaves, toasters, and coffeemakers. Everything Americans use on a daily basis for food preparation needs a plug. Even […]
The Whisper of the Shutoff Valve
The Whisper of the Shutoff Valve Last week’s post on the impending decline and fall of the internet fielded a great many responses. That was no surprise, to be sure; nor was I startled in the least to find that many of them rejected the thesis of the post with some heat. Contemporary pop culture’s […]
Tesla launches Powerwall home battery with aim to revolutionize energy consumption
Tesla launches Powerwall home battery with aim to revolutionize energy consumption Larger version of battery has been tested in pilot program Tesla CEO Elon Musk is trying to steer his electric car company’s battery technology into homes and businesses as part of an elaborate plan to reshape the power grid with millions of small power […]
The EMP Threat: All It Would Take Is A Couple Of Explosions To Send America Back To The 1800s
The EMP Threat: All It Would Take Is A Couple Of Explosions To Send America Back To The 1800s Our entire way of life can be ended in a single day. And it wouldn’t even take a nuclear war to do it. All it would take for a rogue nation or terror organization to bring […]
Rethink the Grid: Personal Power Stations
Rethink the Grid: Personal Power Stations Rethinking the grid is quickly emerging as one of the hottest topics. The concept of our own personal power stations can be seductive…and just might save us a whole lot of money too. “Get big or get out!” Those were the famous, and controversial, words of Earl Butz, Secretary […]
PROPER PREPPING: WHAT’S WHAT WITH WATT?
PROPER PREPPING: WHAT’S WHAT WITH WATT? Regular readers may remember a humorous post from November of 2014 by Mrs. Cog titled ‘Amps Times Volts Equals Watts’. In that article Mrs. Cog relates with a giggle her struggle to understand the basic fundamentals of electricity, something she had previously given no more thought to for her […]
10 Lessons from Living Life Off the Grid | Alternet
10 Lessons from Living Life Off the Grid | Alternet. It was in 2011 that I first understood what off-grid living really meant. Before then I had heard people claim they were off-grid if they switched their cell phone off for a day or two. Other people thought anyone who lived in remote places was […]
Ukraine Temporarily Cuts Off Power To Crimea | Zero Hedge
Ukraine Temporarily Cuts Off Power To Crimea | Zero Hedge. While Ukraine continues to plead with the international community that the Russian annexation of Crimea is illegal and against all international norms and directives, and just after it voted to end its non-aligned status and work towards Nato membership, a move Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called […]
Secret Homeland Report Warns Solar Storm Could Leave 100 Million Without Power: “We Are Running Out of Time to Prepare”
Secret Homeland Report Warns Solar Storm Could Leave 100 Million Without Power: “We Are Running Out of Time to Prepare”. Homeland Security officials are warning that a major coronal mass ejection, solar flare or electromagnetic pulse may be inevitable and catastrophic to modern civilization. The devastation to the electric grid and modern infrastructure could impact the […]
Syria Goes Dark |
Syria Goes Dark |. Syria Then and Now “Arab Spring” situations have an inexorable tendency to go pear-shaped (Tunisia, the first country to experience one is the lone exception, but even there the “old guard” is reportedly making a comeback, so the whole thing was essentially for nothing in the end). In Egypt, the revolution went […]
Ukrainian PM reports accident at nuclear power plant | Reuters
Ukrainian PM reports accident at nuclear power plant | Reuters. (Reuters) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Wednesday an accident had occurred at the Zaporizhye nuclear power plant (NPP) in south-east Ukraine and called on the energy minister to hold a news conference. “I know that an accident has occurred at the Zaporizhye NPP,” Yatseniuk said, asking […]
Images From A Dark Detroit: “Major Cable Failure” Sparks Widespread Power Outage | Zero Hedge
Images From A Dark Detroit: “Major Cable Failure” Sparks Widespread Power Outage | Zero Hedge. Just 15 months after Detroit’s Black Out 2013 debacle, spokespeople for the city and DTE Energy confirmed at around 11:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday that most of Detroit’s municipal grid is offline: *DETROIT CITES ‘MAJOR CABLE FAILURE’ FOR POWER […]
