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Just got a home battery install (midcoast region), and it's perverse how I'm kind of looking forward to some decent storms this winter.

that's good lol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSjy...

One of Nick Petrie’s books had this as part of the plot with a right wing group using drones to attempt to take out certain substations and plummet the US into chaos.

Joke's on him, Puerto Rico is also part of the entire United States but our power company already blacks us out on a regular basis. Way ahead of the game!

Time to get solar panels installed

When a tree falls in Ohio, NYC goes dark

Nice of the New York Times to let all of our enemies know about this weakness.

This will happen after the food riots #sorry

Very much worth noting that the quote you pulled out (9 subs) is about an analysis performed in 2013 and not a recent analysis! Overall the piece is a bit credulous. E.g., the transformer China backdoor claim - so said Trump 1's DOE; zero credibility per Dragos; nothing ever heard about it after.

also reminds me of that "the fire truck industry consolidated and now there are multiyear waits to get a new fire truck" article from not far back

And right here in Commiefornia, no less.

Die Hard 4?

Wow.

It is a core flaw of our growth obsessed economy that creation of new infrastructure outpaces our capacity to maintain the old. Taxing unrealized capital gains is essential step to bringing economy back down to earth.

Yikes

Interestingly enough, I had worked on a committee report after 9/11 looking at this, and some other infrastructure soft targets. That report was later blamed for bringing the transformer vulnerabilities to the awareness of the "militia movement." Seems as though not much has changed since then.

Or how about if they just fucked up the GPS satellites.

Let's tell Iran.💡

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This was basically a plot point in FUBAR and it sounded far-fetched…

Not that I think it's a particularly realistic ask, but it would be nice if we could get some reinforced stations like this for Ukrainian civilians

We will call that plan B

Hugging my bluetti like a plushie.