{"id":48834,"date":"2019-10-05T09:04:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T14:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48834"},"modified":"2019-10-05T09:04:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T14:04:34","slug":"how-vulnerable-are-americas-power-grids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48834","title":{"rendered":"How Vulnerable Are America&#8217;s Power Grids?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/energy\/how-vulnerable-are-americas-power-grids\">How Vulnerable Are America&#8217;s Power Grids?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>America&#8217;s electricity grid powers our lives,<\/strong>&nbsp;but,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/how-vulnerable-are-americas-power-grids_3101666.html\">as The Epoch Times&#8217; Chris Chappell points out<\/a>, because it was never built with attacks in mind,&nbsp;<strong>it has plenty of vulnerabilities.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/power-grid4_2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/power-grid4_2.jpg?itok=4W2RCx3_\"><\/a>Everything from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-malware\">malware<\/a>&nbsp;cyber-attacks, to geomagnetic storms, to nuclear detonations in the atmosphere above the US, even sophisticated electronic weapons from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-russia\">Russia<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<strong>all these threaten to shut down our grid and sow chaos.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So&nbsp;<strong>what, if anything, is being done to counter this threat?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2F9WrfM48zI\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Vulnerable Are America&#8217;s Power Grids? America&#8217;s electricity grid powers our lives,&nbsp;but,&nbsp;as The Epoch Times&#8217; Chris Chappell points out, because it was never built with attacks in mind,&nbsp;it has plenty of vulnerabilities.&nbsp; Everything from&nbsp;malware&nbsp;cyber-attacks, to geomagnetic storms, to nuclear detonations in the atmosphere above the US, even sophisticated electronic weapons from&nbsp;Russia&nbsp;and&nbsp;China&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;all these threaten to shut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,7],"tags":[27306,5222,1574],"class_list":["post-48834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","category-survival-2","tag-chris-chappell","tag-electrical-grid","tag-power-grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48836,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48834\/revisions\/48836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}