Ashes Ashes
Ashes Ashes
Ashes Ashes
Ep 13 – Lights Out
56 minutes Posted Mar 1, 2018 at 8:01 am.
Preshow
What is the Grid?
Some History
The Grid Today
Foliage
Renewable: Difficulties
Renewables: Subsidies
Energy Storage
Transformers: Ageing
Transformers: Raw Materials
Transformers: Lead Time
Critical Substations
Physical Threats
Physical Threats: Liberty
Physical Threats: Metcalf
Transformers: Spares in Reserves?
Cyber Threats
Ukraine Cyber Attack
Incentives for a Cyber Attack
How Will War Begin?
What happens when the Lights go Off?
Electromagnetic Pulse
Solar Threat
Carington Event
1989 Geomagnetic Storm
Bureaucracy
What Can we Do?
Wrap up
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Show notes
Episode 13 - "Lights Out"
What do airports, water treatment facilities, gas stations, and espresso machines all have in common? A dependence on a reliable and stable network of power generation and distribution. In America, and around the world, our electrical grids are aged, stressed, and increasingly at risk of attack. Worse, the centralization and increased interdependence of these grids mean the risk for large-scale failure has never been greater.
If we don't act quickly, the next time the lights go out, they may not turn on again.
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