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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1431320)	1/3/2024 6:01:30 PM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571935

He is clueless.... Edit: Now if you had a couple thousand people with high powered rifles shooting at the cooling fins (filled with transformer oil) of the big "multi-megawatt Step Down transformers" things would get interesting fast. That would be a problem. We don't have a huge inventory of those things laying around. You just can't go to your local electronics parts house for replacements. LOL!

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1431320)	1/3/2024 7:55:04 PM
From: miraje	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571935

LOL, the only thing that would happen would be massive blackouts that would last maybe a few days, maybe a week for some people. I'm not going to post a bunch of links, but the US power grid is vulnerable in several ways. Just a fraction of the money now being wasted could be used to harden the grid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse Another direct hit Carrington Event level CME hitting us from the sun could black us out for a lot longer than a week. You'd better hope we're not around when another one like that hits us, which it will, sooner or later, as we're totally unprepared. And there's evidence that even stronger solar storms than Carrington have hit us farther back in history. I doubt if localized ground level terrorist attacks could cause that much damage, but a rogue nation like Iran detonating a nuke generated EMP from a satellite or missile above us certainly could..

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1431320)	1/3/2024 7:55:23 PM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571935

Jon Wellinghoff: Less than 20. He apparently knows what he is talking about. President Barack Obama named Wellinghoff as FERC Chairman. Wellinghoff quickly established three top priorities for his term: the integration of renewable energy sources, including wind, solar geothermal and hydrokinetic energy, into the electric grid; the implementation of advanced technologies aimed at making the use and distribution of energy more efficient; and the promotion of demand-side energy practices, including real-time electricity pricing and the use of electric cars. All three of these priorities will emphasize improvements to the overall efficiency of the nation's energy infrastructure.