Along with the fragility of power delivery grids nationwide, some junctions are critical to keeping it all tied together. Collapse one of those junctions from natural or manmade events and you can lose delivery in many, many places. Few understand just how vulnerable our system is, though weather events the last couple years have exposed weaknesses in the system, it's all but ignored once the lights come back on.

The so called infrastructure bill could have addressed a lot of these vulnerabilities and even hardened and updated transmission capabilities, but instead we're sold solar and wind farms that come nowhere near meeting demand. Everything in modern civilization requires electricity. Refrigeration, heating, hospitals, food manufacture and distribution, water delivery and waste filtration, hospitals, schools, gas stations, refineries, grocery stores, businesses of all types, all depend on reliable, uninterrupted, power delivery. Go thirty days without power for whatever reason and and civilization goes out the door.

The resulting chaos would be biblical.

Jan 17
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2:16 PM