Friday, April 25, 2014

U.S. power grid could be too big, on the verge of collapsing like pile of sand


 http://www.naturalnews.com/044866_US_power_grid_infrastructure_collapse_electricity.html#ixzz2zuxzKvjY


"The U.S. could suffer a coast-to-coast blackout if saboteurs knocked out just nine of the country's 55,000 electric-transmission substations on a scorching summer day," Rebecca Smith wrote.

Indeed, as Natural News and other sites and publications have been reporting, there is increasing concern among U.S. policymakers, Congress and others that the nation's electric power grid is at risk of being crippled, either by direct cyber attack or by through the physical destruction of key transmission sites.

In fact, the power grid is as brittle as a sand castle, say a trio of researchers whose new study is sounding alarm bells in government and in the industry.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/044866_US_power_grid_infrastructure_collapse_electricity.html#ixzz2zuyP4WLz

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