The Truth About The Power Grid Outage Risk in America

[@meinking22]

Grew up and lived in SoCal for 30+ years. Suffered brownouts almost every summer. Have lived in Japan the last 6 years on a Nuclear Power grid. Even after 3 hurricanes and 2 major earthquakes, not one power outage. Not one.

[@MR-backup]

" Even after 3 hurricanes and 2 major earthquakes, not one power outage. Not one. " - SMFH!

[@ricksmith2609]

Japan doesn't have dizzy broads leading it. If they did they would mandate enough electric cars to destroy Japan's infrastructure as well. Thank God the Japanese have the sense to keep woman in their place.

[@meatloaf5772]

Yeah Japan isn't run by traitors and glue sniffing morons like we are.

[@seangallagher241]

Fucashima Sushi anyone. Lol😂 He is 100 % correct. We need to invest in America.

[@meinking22]

@@carlgibson593 The Fukushima meltdown was overblown and the result of a one in a million chance natural disaster. Not one person was harmed by the meltdown. Don't believe the FUD..

[@ForbiddTV]

Preparing for an EMP grid down scenario is the most difficult task anyone will face. It could easily be a multi-year long outage and about 90% of us would be dead in a year.

[@cristianperez1120]

Why would we be dead

[@ForbiddTV]

@@cristianperez1120 Mostly due to infections, sickness and ailments. No sewage treatment and no water treatment. Water borne diseases would run rampant without such infrastructure.

[@f42un84u]

An EMP is a nuclear strike which would get a nuclear retaliatory strike which would........ end the world. War theory states that is low probability.

[@beejcarson]

@@cristianperez1120 Famine. If most of the grid is down you can't refrigerate at warehouses, grocery stories or at home. Its hard for 350mil plus people to live off the land.

[@mattpolinsky4234]

@@cristianperez1120the entire food system is run by electricity. So unless you know how to procure your own food that’s about it for you.

[@zbLoodlust087]

The government certainly has the money to fix it yet lgbt, Israel and Ukraine are more important to electricity to its citizens

[@LooshChipper]

Funny part is they dont have the money for any of it

[@WSmith_1984]

​@@LooshChipperprecisely the original comment from @zbLoodlust087 sounds a like nat socialism...

[@paira23]

@@LooshChipperyep we are in so much debt 34trillion, that’s about 200k per taxpayer

[@JusticeInGaming_JIG]

Yes because they literally buy out those countries or part of them (oh yeah we are helping youre country financially to keep the war going) and plan to use theyre resources. That is the system american government do for decades. Have You ever asked youre government how many nuclear rockets they found in the previous conflict countries - i can answer you right away NONE - but do you know what they did find...GOLD/GAS/OIL. American government is a parasite a leech which sucks from all countries around it. Asia, europe and Africa 🌍 are tired from this systematic bullying. And how many dead from these artificial conflicts on both sides. 😔 Just to sell more weapons. So if wars doesnt do the job, lets go to the next level - pharmacy companies...

[@MarieChang392]

You forgot to add aliens

[@tylerbradford3489]

Pat I work in the power industry and I can tell you first hand that a lot of the power lines I work on they are from the 60s/70s but in some places the power grid and line are from the 30s/40s. Definitely need more funding and preparation for events like this

[@Likeaworm]

Also there’s less than 70 substations that are considered critical to grid function and if those went down then the entire country would be in the dark

[@jo3yhoang]

Can you imagine the entire grid charging their electric cars in the evening at the same time ?

[@ForbiddTV]

@@jo3yhoang The utilities would actually love that because it balances the grid better as opposed to everyone plugging in when they get home from work when peak demand is already the highest. This is why most utilities have higher rates during peak hours, it saves them from building additional peaker plants by encouraging customers to charge on off-peak hours.

[@PeterMikeSolomon]

I agree wholeheartedly. I’m a grid engineer and can say for a fact that we need WAY more than $3.5B in investment to modernize our electric transmission/distribution system. China is investing hundreds of billions in their electric infrastructure in comparison and will certainly leapfrog us if we continue this trend.

[@ValenceFlux]

I bet. A lot of those PCB ballasts nearly the size of cinder blocks were still left to be cleaned up when I started an apprenticeship late 2007. I only bring it up because I got horribly sick and nearly died way before covid but we did have that sars vac. Some of those old sparks have told me it may have been the insulation that did it to me. Gee I wonder. Pick a card of electrical work hazards. Specifically the armored cable I handled. We got gloves that lasted maybe an hour and we went through a ton of them. Causing stomach cancer if you touch your lunch if it gets on your hands they warned us.

[@tbmpetsolutions]

As a prepper this is old news. Glad this reality is seeping into the hive mind. Major grid down for extended period will kill millions. Your best prep is your spiritual and physical health.

[@psy-ryn]

Absolutely, learn skills. A lot of what we prep won’t survive anyways. You’ll need to be able to survive in the moment, healthy mind and body are everything.

[@danielcaissie1207]

I'm an old preper and I agree ... Do the best you can to protect yourself and your family

[@seymorefact4333]

and the WALL is to keep us IN!!! we the USA has the LARGEST OPEN PRISON!

[@momsmushroomsjodyfoster5786]

Bullseye 🎯

[@GoodForYou4504]

I wouldn't describe myself as a prepper, but I am prepared. The thing that I keep thinking, as I play out a bad situation in my mind, is desperate unprepared people trying to get what I have. That's the scary part.

[@iamkesha.]

It is irritating how the people who are pushing EVs are ignoring updating the grid that is needed to power our society.

[@kimberlys347]

EXACTLY!!!!! Like they got some nerve, pusing EVs on a system that can't even handle it. When you travel to other countries, EVs are unheard of bc they can't even sustain the regular population's basic needs.

[@daleolson3506]

And getting rid of coal power plants

[@JohnBruno-yi1ex]

Because it's a total scam brought to us by the wef pricks

[@JohnBruno-yi1ex]

I have seen countless environmental engineers say that those pricks are full of sh!t

[@toddtheisen8386]

Rural folks prepare for power outages, food shortages and water supplies on a daily basis. City people problems are sure different.

[@six7onevlog85]

My greatest concern when these happens, are social unrest, when people start raiding homes out of desperation, taking what you have.

[@nevmev5982]

2A

[@lemonsquareFPV]

Physical preparation, training and decoys are all well and good. But until you also get the emotional, mental, and spiritual part down. There will always be worries, AKA weaknesses. A lot of peace and clarity is gained when you understand true value and weakness. And look at things more holistically. I believe in you, you’ll be fine.

[@lemonsquareFPV]

@@nevmev59822A is amazing and fundamental, but it’s just a tool. I have a bit of experience with out of continent, dropped in, zero support, skeleton crew raids. Against better armed, home field advantage adversaries. Sure some blood tax was paid and stuff occasionally went funny, but overall it was a nonissue. People sleep, shit, and get distracted. Especially when holding a position. The leverage of a coordinated crew that has to be hyper focused for hours against a team that’s been there for days is huge. Not to talk about the size of their blind spot compared to ours, and our ability to pick the time and place. What’s gonna happen, will happen. That’s why it’s so important to be OK with yourself. And understand reality.

[@AB-qt4dj]

And the social unrest will be encouraged by the government out of equity.

[@suntzu94]

@@nevmev5982I agree with 2A but you can carry or have so many bullets

[@steeldriver1776]

We’re too busy buying out other governments to be worried about basic necessities here.

[@bissetttom1738]

you forgot never ending war while we steal other people resources.

[@Winnspeed]

My brother and I have been in the utility industry for 20 years, worked all over the United States…….if Americans only knew.

[@KuzzatAltay]

Why weren’t you born in the US, Patrick? We need you as the president.

[@MR-backup]

I feel this comment. But he'll be just as good as a Governor ;)

[@Doodoomaister]

Are you gay?

[@theresaowen2708]

Patrick is most powerful doing what he is doing now. Free agent.

[@glendawilliams5102]

Obama wasn’t born in the US. I think that set a precedent. PATRICK FOR PRESIDENT!

[@FakeName1984]

That doesn't seem to matter any more. Just print up a birth certificate from Hawaii.

[@tsidiarch]

South Africa has had loadshedding for almost ten years, cycling the energy with 2-4hrs of no power per day at catastrophic results for the economy. This was done as a mitigation against grid collapse… kinda like limping along, than total collapse. All because the government slept on the job of upgrading the grid and building new power stations when they were advised to. I cannot imagine what that would mean for the US.

[@bluefootedboobie1893]

Thats why you dnt let blacks run a country

[@lorenzomunisami6083]

In South Africa we already experience this on a daily basis. Loadshedding

[@n1mbusmusic606]

Sorry to hear that god bless stay safe

[@nathantegeler8585]

I am glad I am not the only one concerned about this as I work for a local power plant as an electrical engineer. I have gotten to experience the process that we go through to get our devices updated. I am echoing what other people are saying here, but some of the equipment we are using is from the 40's and 50's and is extremely unreliable. Thankfully we are working to replace that equipment but it is crazy that they let it go so long before doing any thing about it. I think the best thing that people can do is be aware of who is in charge of running the the grid in there area. There are smaller co-ops and government run systems as well as larger sometimes for profit organizations who own the power system. With this knowledge people can contact them and educate themselves and hopefully complain enough to the people running these entities that the make the needed upgrades. Though this will be an extremely slow process as the grid is massive and all of the equipment is extremely high cost.

[@syncrovanCos]

0:24 Actually, yes, many people out there did expected something like that and a bit more, but they were called "conspiracy theorists", while they called themselves "preppers". You can still find their old videos related to similar subject. Aaron Russo also talked about such events in his last interview with Alex Jones in 2007, referring as "invisible enemies".

[@jesshorn257]

yup that is why prepper's have dry food stores, water stores, power stores, and medical supplies.... we can bunker down for months till we know what is happening.

[@MR-backup]

Stop trying to defend tin foil nut jobs, you...you....you...FACTS SPEAKER!

[@Kthetruth]

Your a leader in the movement bro

[@vaughnkingston6902]

One Second After Novel by William R. Forstchen This novel really summarizes Pat's point on an exploited power grid.

[@troyedmond7586]

With more than 25 years experience working with the BES (Bulk Electric System), I would say the problem is worst than what you know, and not for the reasons you mentioned. How many MWs have we lost over the last 10 years vs what we gained?....and what kind of MWs have we replaced them with. You have the DOE (Department of Energy), over the FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), and the NERC (North American Energy Reliability Commission), all imposing rules and laws onto the ISO's (Independent System Operators), TO's (Transmission Owners), and GO's (Generation Owners) all while not listening/reading/understanding the bad reports from the front lines. This is killing the business (Loss of MWs) and the reliability of the system right along with it. I predict, within the next 5 years we will have rolling brown and blackouts due bad governance and over bureaucracy.

[@PWPNation]

During the first 6 months of COVID, i said, " You think this is bad? Wait until there is an internet shutdown."

[@northwestWW]

Honestly a c minus is generous. I work in the power trade and I tell everyone to get a generator. The system is much much more vulnerable. Since Covid we cannot get system critical parts for years.

[@MR-backup]

Hollywood really has 21st century Americans believing that cops teleport to your phone call when you dial 911, that the govt. in infallible, and that the magical receptacle's they see everyday in their buildings/homes will ALWAYS BE ON!

[@ricksmith2609]

You believe the covid narrative? Wow too bad for you and your family. Rethink the situation. This is done ON PURPOSE

[@Jonnyrockin71]

About ten years ago, I worked on a power grid visualisation project for a defence contractor. The big one. My client said that... They have identified 3 unique huge transformers in the North eastern grid that are not immediately replaceable. It needs to be built from scratch. A hacker would only need to loop power back into these three nodes to put the North East into a 9 month black out.

[@AFuller2020]

Explain how a hacker would do that.... Do you think XFRMS run on a Windoz 10 Dell OS? The switches and OCB's on transformers are operated by the power generation unit. Do you see the knife switches near the transformers on you street? Do you see a windows computer activated the release? Nope....human controlled. Yes....I'm in the biz.

[@Jonnyrockin71]

I guess Lockheed doesn't know what they are talking about. Nor the Chineses or Russians. You're so smart. @@AFuller2020

[@vladlenin3160]

@@AFuller2020 Then it just takes a crazy human to throw the switch. Take your blinders off... or get out of the biz for our safety.

[@MR-backup]

" A hacker would only need to loop power back into these three nodes " - Do you mean on the secondary side??? If so, how?

[@MR-backup]

@@vladlenin3160 he's talking about your Distribution Lines, i.e. the primary lines of your SP (street pole)/PM (pad mount) Transformer, which has nothing to do with these "3 unique huge..North Eastern Trans.'s". The point is, with (as PBD pointed out) our 60's era utility grib, there is no Automation in place to allow "hacking" of the digital kind. Someone would have to physically go to one of these "3 unique..trans's" and somehow find a way to "beat" the safety circuits & systems in place to mess sh+ up; that's if they can get by the 24/7 ARMED gaurds at these stations.

[@jesshorn257]

Preppers have been thinking of this for decades...we have dry food, generators, water, fuel, medical, ect... about time mainstream start thinking about this stuff also.

[@galeparker1067]

And "Canadian Prepper" is convinced Electric Vehicles are the way to go...... 🤔👃✌️🇨🇦

[@candace27co]

And ammunition

[@csview8936]

Nice to see you talked about this. Many know about this....but not most. Our society is VERY dependent on the grid.

[@maryfrawley4388]

One thing you missed is that most people are not prepared and after three weeks, marauders will be coming for your food and fuel. Defense of your property and self is paramount in prepping.

[@ForbiddTV]

No, much more paramount is being able to access safe drinking water.

[@jaymylar1726]

Even though more people are waking up, the majority of normies just don't care about anything outside their immediate circle of concerns. It's maddening, being the person who pays attention and knows how precarious our situation is and the spiraling trajectory of our country into totalitarian control, screaming into the wind to ignorant friends and family. They're the ones that will trade any freedom they have left for the government to save them from a situation the government itself created.

[@FrankS111]

This is why I got generators that can power appliances or the whole house that run on natural gas and / or solar.

[@viewfindernoise]

Work in substations on the east coast we talk aboit stuff like this all the time. The funny thing is the stuff built in the 50s lasts better than the stuff built today which sometimes only has a life expectancy of 15-20 years

[@SolarPowerMyRV]

I have no worries about the power grid. My Rv has plenty of solar and batteries to keep me going. Self Made and independent

[@brichardson1080]

I'm right behind you. I'm in the midst of building my setup now. I'm waiting for Anker to come out with their F3800.

[@glendawilliams5102]

Check the pockets of your nearest elected Congress person or President. Thanks Patrick for all you do to bring truth to the masses.

[@skipdegraff6547]

I have been saying that for 2 years, just flip the breaker box off and hide the keys and shut off water for the weekend. Instructions make a list...Sunday afternoon the entire family is prepping, go shopping. Do this randomly for a year 6 times.

[@FrankS111]

This is their goal. Have masses purely reliable on the electrical grid especially cars to eliminate mobility. They will start with rolling brownouts followed by blackouts.

[@lemonsquareFPV]

The electric grid is a necessity for this type of government and western lifestyle. Both cease to exist without it. Only way to really limit mobility is to make people fat, lazy, distracted and dependent. Every time I have left a SHTF area, it has always been faster on foot and I have always beat vehicle traffic to the destination. All except for helicopters, but I digress. Electric cars aren’t viable or scalable to begin with, so this really is a nonissue. Mandated kill switches on all cars is something tangible and already underway.

[@Duke_Of_Havoc]

Iirc it was Die Hard 4 which showcased this issue. A guy working for Homeland and also apparently a genius, tried to show his seniors how weak the system was. He got fired as a result, so he proved to them that he was right by using the same exact weaknesses to cripple the country in a day. Awesome movie btw. So glad PBD is covering this.

[@n1663r]

Every Die Hard after number 3 is garbage. McClain goes from a NY cop that finds terrorists at Nakatome Plaza to flying a F22 around and jumping semi trucks.

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

🎦 You should watch 'Into the Forest' (2014) and 'The Trigger Effect' (1996) too.

[@pucker672]

Get yourself a micro-grid and you have no worries. Just keep replacement parts around. It's an expensive options.

[@Jonnyrockin71]

Also. because most of the Grid is actually in private hands. The firmware on most of the devices at the various transformers that manage the grid is not updated and exposed to vulnerabilities!

[@riccaruso7791]

In this regard, you should interview Eric P. Dollard; Electrical Engineer & former University Professor

[@trulygrateful7217]

To be fair preppers have been talking about the likelihood of this happening for years.

[@jeannedellphotograph]

You can't access your money as well. No banking at all.

[@theodenaro5864]

Here in South Africa we had this problem for about 16 year's now it's very sad hope this enigma ends in the near future

[@bluefootedboobie1893]

Get white people to run your country and it'll get better

[@elizabethdarosa5036]

Proper prior preparation prevents piss poor performance!!

[@iramunn9611]

Excellent synopsis and presentation.

[@gennaCarr10]

This has already happened in Texas- we lost power- heat , people died. At this point ANYTHING is possible!!

[@angelofamillionyears4599]

Thanks patrick. Now interview a Grid expert on what needs to be done.

[@shuvmesumknowlegde]

The "grid" should not be on the internet first off.

[@LeonKotze70]

LOL, 2 HRS interruption a year... In South Africa currently we are sitting on 6 HRS a DAY, sometimes it goes up to 3 stints of 4 HRS each per day. That is what an incompetent government does to a country.

[@marewmpinge419]

Move to Namibia

[@ricksmith2609]

Stop voting for woman

[@emiliocofinco3151]

We are currently in solar maximum cycle and the magnetosphere’s strength has decreased exponentially… a Carrington Event during the modern era would be disastrous if our electrical grid is not updated and safeguarded for this type of event.

[@CanYouHandleThis]

These clips are the best!!

[@jakemiles4470]

Patrick, following for years, but this can not happen. You don’t know enough about this topic. I work in this industry for 22 years and we are constantly improving this and almost every major city is independent.

[@louchris9001]

We had an ice storm; we were without water and electricity for 3 days!!! We all gathered at my father's house, he had a gas fireplace and gas grill. We had candles and stored water!! Gas pumps didn't work and only people with cash could get into Walmart (the only store open). Still, you needed exact change!!

[@ForbiddTV]

And will be worse in the future when they ban gas hookups and eliminate cash. Already see those happening...

[@ewetoobblowzdogg8410]

I've been preparing for this since Trump was in office. Bought myself a beautiful 1920's wood cookstove like great grandma had. Also picked up a nice parlor stove that uses coal or wood. Also have a shelf full of oil lanterns to get us by.

[@waltereduardomeneses]

Pat, as an individual homeowner we can get solar panels and batteries and rely less on the grid.

[@annettemartin4287]

Just in 2021 or 2022 men with a high powered rifle took out an electrical substation in Moore County North Carolina and the power grid was out for a week or more.

[@NorCal-refrigeration]

Ted Koppel had a book about this years ago. Lights Out. Great read. Eye opening.

[@imeldadiaz4164]

Great book, can't believe more ppl haven't read it.

[@NorCal-refrigeration]

@@imeldadiaz4164 how about no spare transformers. Takes a year to build. This real I have friends working on the grid it’s from the 60’s. We are screwed if it gets hacked.

[@Helen_white1]

It is a government inspired crisis this time. The Treasury have to sell Bonds to cover the trade imbalance and the government spending imbalance. In order to sell them they have to raise interest rates and the old long-term, low risk, low interest, AAA investments (including Treasury Bonds), held by the banks (often due to government regulatory policy), become next to worthless. The next milestone is the 15th when the government issue a new batch of Bonds. I have approximately 350k stagnant in my portfolio that needs growth. What is the best way to take advantage of this downturn?

[@Steven-u2u]

Indeed, you are correct! Economic downturns offer numerous prospects for ordinary individuals to create wealth from the ground up. Nevertheless, seeking guidance from an investment planner might be necessary if you desire a more assertive return.

[@JacobPaula]

It's essential to comprehend the complexities of investing. Having a trustworthy support system, such as a financial adviser, who can advise you is crucial, especially when choosing assets...

[@JacobPaula]

There are a lot of independent advisors you might look into. But i work with Stacie Lynn Winson and I have been working together for nearly four years, and she is excellent. You could proceed with her if she satisfies your discretion. I support her.

[@Dave_East]

I appreciate you sharing this. When I looked up the woman you named and read through her credentials, it was obvious that she was a complete professional. I just need her to respond to the message I wrote her.

[@Joefest99]

The WEF talking about “preparation for a grid attack” reminds me of when they were talking about a global.coronavirus pandemic a year before it happened. 🤨

[@mpeezy358]

Id like to know how vulnerable our National Security actually is. on the other hand i probably dont want to know.

[@legobobafett5045]

"Ask for the Truth". *asks For truth "YOU can't handle the Truth".

[@eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee9531]

Millions are currently coming through the border from the north and south borders. And the democrats are going to put Illegal Immigrants in the army...

[@AThomp-hm4xq]

I work for the utiltiy company with the most line miles in the country. I work in the data area and It’s scary we have to replace nearly 80% of the grid we have built since 1900 by the year 2030 or we may have rolling blackouts. It’s different on each grid but PJM(Midwest) ERCOT(basically Texas), and California ISO are all at risk for rolling blackouts unless we build more infrastructure. And due to higher interest rates these projects are slowing down and many companies including Siemens energy are having to sell off some of their generation projects because they are so over budget. Only way this will get solved is through lowering interest rates and gov giving grants and other incentives to build it out. However that’s going to cause customer rates to increase and it will cost Americans more $$.

[@highlanderc]

the camera man and the editing crew are doing an amazing job!!!!!!!!

[@kenboose4473]

Unbelievable more people are not talking about this

[@Officialbillyd23]

Bringing awareness 👍

[@torontoson6954]

This is one of the most important topics right fkn now and ppl r just rtarded with head in sand

[@bipolarmotorjeffpenney2153]

Just discovered PBD, I like his style.

[@salimbouziri]

I can tell you even worse Patrick: a big part of the photovoltaic projects are controlled & monitored by Chinese dataloggers, which could allow the suppliers from China to shut them down as they wish. I can tell you in detail why, how, and the likelihood of that happening.

[@unitedwestanddividedwefall3521]

It’s why we can’t really sanction or punish China. They’ll shut our stuff down and also not sell us critical medicines we need. We sold out.

[@Andrea-LovesYouStill]

2:32 “Ok let’s get right into it…” (After 2 1/2 mins of promotions 😒)

[@devontektsellers]

It's happening in Europe right now in some places with no power because of ev charging stations

[@ezekiellimon2943]

Pat you should give an interview to mike glover on this topic!!!

[@faithesprit81]

Who's here July 2024 with the power outages and airport closures etc😊

[@lindenimotsumi8641]

We already have this in South Africa. Never thought this would be our daily. It seemed impossible until it happened. A major contributor to our country’s economy. Here it’s called Loadshedding.

[@kimberlys347]

As messed up as loadshedding is, at least you can plan around it. As our american luck would have it, they would crash the grid and let it stay crashed for an indefinite amount of time unfortunately. Correct me if I'm wrong, but loadshedding is a contingency to prevent the grid crashing. At this point we should be loadshedding here in the US also, but we're not. So we're on the way to a full crash.

[@SG-js2qn]

John Kerry just signed the US to a "no-coal" deal, when coal use is rising around the world. Coal is easy to store and can produce energy on demand.

[@toddtheisen8386]

Natural gas has replaced coal. Natural gas produces 42% of the US power. Coal now only produces 11% and getting less every day. Natural gas is cleaner, easier to use and much easier to transport than coal ever could be.

[@SG-js2qn]

@@toddtheisen8386 So why do we sign a pledge at all? Won't the market naturally select coal or natgas where is it best used?

[@toddtheisen8386]

@@SG-js2qn It has been. Government always follows the free market, it never leads it.

[@blago3480]

PBD, y'all should do something about these impending outages. In South Africa we have been going through outages since 2014 or so, we still feel the pinch everyday. This is madness, they are trying to privatize electricity and it has gotten extremely expensive. You guys must fight someone physically.

[@gotemmcoach8343]

Best podcast 💯

[@aspireactionalliance3249]

Thank you for being the first person to bring this up! Finally someone is talking about this. This is the MOST serious threat we face and not a single news outlet or social platform anywhere wants to discuss it. We are so vulnerable here and though your reporting on it is really helpful yet not even close to explaining how serious it is. If our grid goes down for any length of time it will be worse than any horror movie could ever possibly depict. Think The Purge time a hundred or a thousand. The most important thing is exactly what Patrick said, start bring it up to everyone you can and raise awareness. THE GOOD NEWS IS: It is completely fixable, we know how to harden our grid to prevent this kind of vulnerability. And as others have commented, we have the money to fix it…or more accurately, we’re spending much more money on foreign affairs. We can and MUST fix our grid. Congress even knows how to do it, they’re just not being pressed on it by the people so they’re not acting. This is fixable. Let’s work together on raising awareness at a government level by talking to everyone we can about it

[@nevmev5982]

He's not the first, but definitely the most visible.

[@aspireactionalliance3249]

@@nevmev5982 that’s probably true. Dennis Quaid has a whole documentary out about it too

[@nevmev5982]

@@aspireactionalliance3249 dedi Italy going to check that out. Thanks for the recommendation. 👍

[@OgamiClan]

Been an issue for years. Check with the infrastructure report that are put out every year.

[@KrystaliBeLoveLiveGracefully]

This is why my business startup idea is a niche within real estate & renovation where power and energy and not needing the grid and as of today i have a better plan for the water which again is not connected to the city water either

[@0_3_6_9_0]

Kickstarting trade schools to train more engineers would be a good idea of preparation. Common sense.

[@EuropaChronicles]

Every single American should read the book called One Second After which describes a fictional story of the U.S. power grid going down permanently. It’s an extremely sobering reminder of how dependent our society is on technology. I don’t think anyone can read that book and not immediately start “prepping.”

[@RajaniK-rs1bx]

Vivek has talked about this potential and how vulnerable we are due to power grid in control of China. So those who are paying attention knows Vivek has been warning us about topics most people and politicians have no clue about. Vivek2024!

[@kimchiba4570]

Yea.... He's indian with a big axe to grind with China. Like you

[@fredreed2001]

One of the major problems that we have with our power grid is that our electric companies aren’t investing enough in new technology like better power plants and better improved transformers. It starts with that called investment. Our country is not ready for a power grid meltdown and it will happen very soon and when it does we will be sorry because we aren’t ready yet.

[@jellyrcw12]

Back in hs my engineering and science teacher said "my generation should have updated and improved the power grid, your generation will have to" which about sums it up

[@lavonnekelly9173]

Malware attacks are very dangerous too right now..

[@teresasolis1179]

Get Dennis Quaid on to discuss this.

[@mattscole847]

A few months ago where I live the power was out for 2 days Over a little storm.

[@fr3ckmula782]

Love you PBD. Can’t wait to work with you 1day soon

[@mickeymch876]

I had a fire in 2014 so I'm not totally in the dark about what has to be done in a power outage. You need to remember, in a total grid down situation you really have nothing. No electric, no NG,, no water, no fresh petrol, etc. You have what you have on hand. Remember if you are tied to city water and sewer it's common for the township or city to use pumps, not only for supply but to move the waste to the plant. It's usually madatory that the township has backup power for pumps but that will run out fairly quickly. People will stil be trying to flush their toilets and many areas the sewer and storm drains are common. Know your system, know what has to be done. Don't forget about sump pumps. Not only do sump pumps lose power in an outage they are often tied into the soil line, that is a breach if the sewer were to backup. You don't have to go crazy preparing but you do need the basics like heat (for yourself and to keep pipes from freezing), food, water, a way to cook, access to water, a way to boil water, a way to filter and purify water, a way to shower, a way to take a dump, a way to wash cloths, lighting, plenty of ammo, etc., etc.

[@spl369ob3]

I worked power lines 39 years,the grid is old and outdated,very vulnerable,get ready more electric cars ,more blackouts

[@blakespower]

I live 30 miles outside DC and we always have small power outages lately so I bought UPS's because it can mess up your sensitive electronics or anything you have on a timer

[@StubbsMillingCo.]

Duel fuel generator and many 25 lb tanks or propane, several 1 lb tanks of propane and a hose and adapter to exchange fuel from the larger tank to the smaller tank.

[@mudzungamatidza3044]

In South Africa we call it loadshedding ..you will get used to it

[@cjbartoz]

We simply must get the vacuum energy part moving, for when one examines all the options, it is the only option that will work in time. We already know that the Maxwell-Heaviside equations, prior to Lorentz regauging, do include open systems in disequilibrium in their vacuum exchange. We are also already aware that the present classical EM model completely omits the vacuum interaction (much less any broken symmetry in that interaction!), which we also know is a gross non sequitur since the vacuum interaction (and the dipole's broken symmetry in it) have been well-known in particle physics since the 1950s. The major problem in the U.S. is that the decision scientists at top positions advising leaders/secretary/vice-President/presidents, usually do not know anything but U(1) electrodynamics, and the advice they get from additional "expert" scientific consultants or advisers is inferior in that these "expert advisers" also seem to know only U(1) and also only the Lorentz-regauged Maxwell-Heaviside equations. Many (most) do not even "believe" in the active vacuum, or if they begrudgingly admit it, they think it is of absolutely no consequence. And they simply do not believe the tremendous energy density of the vacuum, nor will they accept it, even though it is good physics and has been for decades. Hence the entire scientific energy structure and infrastructure in the United States is fearsomely welded to a small fragment (subset) of James Clerk Maxwell's theory, and even to just a Lorentz regauged subset of the severe Heaviside truncation of it! We have a scientific mindset problem of epic proportion. In short, the energy crisis is completely the fault of our own scientific community. It is NOT the fault of the President, the Vice President, or the Secretary of Energy! It is the direct fault of the inferior advice being given them by the NSF, NAS, etc. The sad thing is that the U.S. scientific community is seemingly no longer capable of even evaluating its own U(1) EM model, as it has become almost an iron dogma. E.g., in the 1880s Oliver Heaviside discovered the enormous energy pouring out of the terminals of any generator -- vastly more energy than we provide as mechanical energy input to the shaft. John Henry Poynting in 1884, of course, only dealt from the beginning with the tiny component of that energy outpour that is intercepted by the external circuit and caught and used. Hendrik Antoon Lorentz understood both the Poynting component and the Heaviside component as well. But no one could explain what could possibly be the source of such an enormous energy flow from EVERY GENERATOR, BATTERY, AND SOURCE DIPOLE. That is rigorous. Simply check Heaviside's original papers. Anyway, Lorentz in 1892 then took the attitude that this enormous Heaviside energy flow component, missing the circuit entirely and just wasted, had "no physical significance" (his words). So he arbitrarily discarded it (not from NATURE, but from MATHEMATICAL ACCOUNTING) by a clever little integration trick, still used by all the electrodynamicists and those energy scientists designing and building our electrical power systems, writing our textbooks, teaching in our universities -- and advising Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of Energy. In short, we most often face scientists who literally will not believe and cannot comprehend that every generator we ever built, already extracts enormous energy from the vacuum. It is quite easy to prove it, for peanuts. Any lab, university, or decent experimenter can do it. Kraus' diagram in his Electromagnetics, Fourth Edition, shows the nondiverged energy flow component in the form of contours, which are MEASURED watts/square meter at each point, where a unit point static charge will catch that much more energy. Let me now give you a rigorous proof, and very simple, that every system is already vastly overunity by producing far more energy out than we input. Consider a perfect DC generator, loss free, so that its efficiency is 100%. Now consider a perfect external circuit attached, which consists of two short lengths of perfect conducting wire, and a pure resistance load. Let the load be 12 ohms, and the voltage of the generator be 12 Volts D.C. Now we have a neat little situation: We put in the mechanical power equivalent of 12 watts to the shaft. Since the generator is loss free, all the 12 watts are perfectly transduced into magnetic field, and the energy in this field is dissipated with 100% efficiency to form the source dipole. Let us leave the source dipole for a moment. Now we look at the external circuit. There is one ampere of current (12V divided by 12 Ohms) flowing in the external circuit. So we are inputting 12 watts of power to the generator shaft, and we are getting 12 watts of power output in the resistor. All this is clearly measurable and normal so far. Now we check out John D. Kraus, Electromagnetics, Fourth Edn., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1992. Figure 12-60, a and b, p. 578 shows a good drawing of the huge energy flow filling all space around the conductors, with almost all of it not intercepted and thus not diverged into the circuit to power it, but just "wasted." Hey! We have 12 watts of power in. We have 12 watts of power output of the resistor as heat. By conventional Poynting considerations, we are getting out precisely what we are inputting. That is a blatant lie. We are getting output from the resistor precisely as much as we are inputting to the shaft of the generator. Yet we also are getting out a measurable vast amount of energy flow from those generator terminals, filling all space around that circuit. Those Kraus contours are experimental measurements. Anyone can do them, or similar. Anyone can build a little system very similar to this one, and approximating it. So where the devil is all that VAST EXTRA MEASURABLE ENERGY FLOW pouring from the generator terminals, and missing the circuit entirely, COMING FROM? Experimentally we can easily prove that this Heaviside nondiverged energy flow is (1) real, and (2) very large. Let us now add in an extra set of "receiving antenna/collectors" whose circuitry is completely separate from the DC generator circuit with its load. Suppose we add enough of these "little antenna/interceptor/detector" circuits, each containing a little purely resistive load, to obtain 3 watts total in all those extra and independent circuits. Well, now we are inputting 12 watts. We are getting out 12 watts in the external resistor attached to the generator. We are also getting 3 watts out of the "extra receiver circuits" separately, in separate loads. So our total input is 12 watts. Our total output is 15 watts. Our demonstrated COP = 1.25. So how do the "experts" explain that simple experiment????" They don't. But any lab worth a tinker's dam -- and that includes any lab in Department Off Energy and in any university -- can do a similar experiment, catching enough of the extra "usually nondivergent EM energy flow" to bring the COP to COP>1.0. This is a very simple experiment. So is the Bohren experiment which produces COP=18, is published in the hard literature, and is independently replicated by two additional scientists and published in the same issue of Am. J. Phys. that published the Bohren experiment paper. Anyway, Lorentz's "physically insignificant" vast Heaviside nondiverged EM energy flow component is indeed "physically insignificant" to that single external circuit powered by that DC generator. But it is certainly not "physically insignificant" to those extra "receiver/collector circuits" and their independent loads. Let's use two imaginary viewgraphs where in the first one Lorentz is shown in a sailboat on an ocean, in a very nice large ocean wind. Puffing his pipe, Lorentz is smiling and saying, "Only the wind in my sails is of any physical significance". In the second graph, Lorentz is looking aside at a whole fleet of additional sailboats, calmly sailing along and powered by that "insignificant remaining component of the wind". And Lorentz is saying, "How can they be using that physically insignificant wind?" This is an exact analogy to the state of thinking that now exists in the U.S. power industry and the U.S. scientific community concerned with power systems. We don't have an energy crisis, we have a collection and usage crisis-and a vast scientific mindset crisis. Hopefully this will change in the future with highly capable scientists who know quaternion electrodynamics, Maxwell's original complete theory, etc.

[@TheeKingMaker]

finally someone brings this up. shocking its not a bigger talking issue

[@danielkillorin9742]

Proper prevention prevents poor performance 🔥🔥

[@scoot5342]

The only presidential candidate who I have ever heard, even broach this subject, is Vivek Ramaswamy. This would be chaos everywhere, especially big cities. Thanks fellas

[@dejeaneahouston6949]

I'm getting prepared now

[@HAMMERHEALTH415]

P.S. I bought both of your books. I heard itoday that your latest book CHOOSE YOUR ENEMIES WISELY has reached a record of some type for most pre sales. We all know good to know who our friends and enemies are. The title itself is compelling.

[@Carbonbank]

I’m in South Africa / they’ll use “Power Grid Black out - Loadshedding tactics to crush small business.

[@thinadlamini4671]

For us South Africans it has literally become part of our everyday life. 😂

[@davidlemay4761]

A generator and a transfer switch are two things you can’t be without it’s either that or you spend a cold dark night in a house the days of the one or two hour power outages are over with.😮

[@lanesteele240]

Someone shot up a substation near my town. 30k were out of power for 3 weeks. They replaced the big transformers and thats it. It can be done again today. All they need to do is stack concrete barriers around it. At least make it harder. Chain link fence will not stop anything

[@egillis214]

We learned in Texas snowmeggendon event. No power 5 days with temps -10F. No water 7 days... frozen pipes. We learned. Never again.

[@wanderson1978]

Great subject!

[@4Nanook]

Tell me when the power is out how you gonna use your gold to get food?

[@jeremymagz]

You hire guys like me to build backup/off grid power systems for your home.

[@carpenjk]

Read The Catalyst book series. It's about exactly this.