The solar storm theory has led to another conspiracy about a global blackout on September 24. Although the world has never experienced a global blackout, it is believed that the phenomenon would result in the world being rendered without electricity. Solar flares are electromagnetic radiation in the atmosphere of the sun, and NASA defines them as intense bursts of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy from the surface of the sun.
Conspiration theories often involve secret agendas and malicious intent. The WEF’s Great Reset initiative may not include these elements. People on platforms like TikTok, Telegram, Facebook, and Twitter have suggested a global-wide blackout that will cause a “great reset” in the economy, politics, and more.
Several explanations have been offered for the massive power failure in the north-eastern United States and Canada on August 14. Tawainna Anderson sued TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance in 2022 after her 10-year-old daughter Nylah attempted the “blackout challenge” the year prior. Media blackout is the censorship of news related to a certain topic, particularly in mass media. An attack on an unprotected civilian grid could result in a long-term blackout event.
Washington officials say there was never a blackout, and experts and social media tools suggest that DCBlackout was initially spread by fake and hacked Twitter accounts. Conspiracy theories are having a big moment in America, driving online chat room conversations and fueling public frustration and suspicion.
A wave of power shortages has swept through Southeast Asia, sparking public frustration and suspicion. The United States announced plans in 1965 to build one thousand nuclear power plants, and Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro claimed sabotage behind the massive power outage on August 30.
📹 A Catastrophic Blackout is Coming – Here’s How We Can Stop It | Samuel Feinburg | TEDxBaylorSchool
This talk was given at TEDxBaylorSchool in September 2017. We are terrible at listening to warnings about disaster.” In this …
📹 How Long Would Society Last During a Total Grid Collapse?
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The real solution to most of these problems is decentralization. Centralization is usually very efficient at doing or producing ONE thing, and very bad at doing everything else. Moving to a decentralized model of energy production, storage, and distribution will increase the robustness of the system many times over, for a (relatively) small decrease in efficiency.
For three decades I have read and studied the potential risks and damage from a “hit” by a CME or a nuclear explosion causing a large EMP. This is the best, most informative, and level-headed presentation on EMP / fragility of our nation’s power grid that I have ever seen. Kudos! Members of Congress should be required to watch this presentation on a yearly basis.
Jack Phillips never went to sleep that night, the night before the collision he stayed up all night trying to fix the Marconi device even though the rules said he should have waited until New York. Can you imagine what would have happened if it hadn’t been working when the Titanic hit? The lifeboats would have been left adrift and only would have been found by the Oceanic 29 days later most likely with zero survivors. The Marconi operators took shifts so Phillips probably had a couple of hours of sleep that day. Now he had to take care of the hundreds of messages that had piled up over the last few hours from passengers who wanted to send messages to their loved ones. The other ship which intercepted him that this man was talking about started transmitting their message while Phillips was transmitting his message. Now you have to imagine that the place he was transmitting to was 600 miles away and the ship that was transmitting to him was less than 50 miles away (Some even say 5 miles but that is still an ongoing argument whether it was the mount temple or not) So now the Sleep deprived Phillips who was catching up on all the messages he hadn’t sent during the 12 hours while the machine was broken had this other operator interrupting his transmission. Phillips replied with “Shut up old man! I am working Cape Race!” When the wireless operator on the Californian heard this, he shut down for the night. Another piece of false information is that Philips did not get one minute of sleep until he died that night, he was still transmitting messages when the ship hit the iceberg, when the captain came in and told him to send distress calls to nearby ships, he did.
I’m glad for everything I’ve learned from my Amish neighbors. I can feed myself and many of my neighbors from my barn long enough to bring a newly planted crop to harvest. And I have a great collection of mantle lamps, candle making supplies, and a well in the back yard if needed. Nothing beats knowing how to do things, real things. Without electricity. Helps to have a couple acres of trees. But in the end, knowledge is power as it always has been.
i lived in a canadian community growing up in the 80/90s that regularly lost power several times each winter, for hours usually, but often as much as a week each winter with a big storm. in the ‘old’ world of that era, phones generally still worked when the power went out, most people had a woodstove to heat their home and at least boil some water, we pulled out boardgames, lit candles and invited the neighbours over. we all had food in the cupboards from out ‘big trips’ to the urban centre two hours away, but the small town grocery store/pharmacy would open up a few hours on a generator, as the shopkeeper knew how to make change.. and still existed before urban box stores ran them out of business. point being, in the last 20 years we’ve lost even these basic capacities in our technologically improved dumbed down societies.
Before I retired, I was in a position that let me know that what he said is the absolute truth. He didn’t mention that many Powerhouses are remotely controlled, often by one person who is monitoring two or more facilities. Most Powerhouse transformer switchyards are vulnerable to attack by any number of means. To use his analogy, the iceberg isn’t over the horizon, it’s within the fog bank we’re about to enter. We need to heed this warning before it is too late.
Skilled workers in all network utilities, internet, gas, electric and water are so undervalued and poorly paid. It’s easy to talk for a good living. Society and the people in charge really need to support the vital engineers and scientists who build and maintain these critical networks, human existence relies on it.
I grew up poor. It taught me so many valuable lessons. Throughout life I’ve been tempted with money, with possession, with advancements in technology. But a seed was planted. I already knew I could be happy and content with the nature around me that was entirely free. The same nature that they are currently pillaging for the ‘advancement’ of our world. We’ve seen the planet start to fight back for itself with natural disasters, it’s time to take a side. See ya in the trenches earthlings 🙂
Actually the military, big business and government have known about this for years. National Geographic even published an edition about it. They have been quietly working on hardening the electrical grid, aircraft, communication system etc. against an EMP for several years. It might help to get them to move a little faster if you are pro-active and contact your state and federal officials and tell them you are aware of this problem and want action. Otherwise you can just stand around in the dark and berate yourself when it finally happens. Putting opaque walls around power substations so bad guys can’t see them to shoot at them might help too.
A summary, if anyone wants it: This comes from Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of Helena, a problem-solving institution that addresses urgent societal issues through for-profit, non-profit, and legislative action. This article focuses on the United States in particular, but is outlining what every country operating on an electric grid needs to think about, ie a major (electric) blackout, which would result in: -no cell phone signal or tv even if you had a way to charge your phone or power a television -no (indoor) running water -no functioning streetlights (and therefore traffic pileups) – sewer system would start to overflow within a week or two -food would be gone from the grocery stores within 3-5 days -mass evacuations -societal order deteriorating We already know that a blackout would likely be triggered in one of 4 ways: 1. Cyber attack from an outside country on the grid, which reportedly there is already the technology (70-90% likelihood) The next 3 items are all ways to blow out critical step-up step-down high voltage electric transformers (of which there are only a few thousand in the US), which would result in taking out the entire grid. Each transformer costs tens of millions of dollars, must be ordered a year in advance from places like Germany and South Korea, and requires a special permit to transport because they’re so massive they might take out a bridge mid-transport. Most of the original ones were brought in via now decommissioned railways: 2. Solar weather that could surge the grid (10% chance within the next decade, taking out all or a portion of the national grid) 3.
I’ve been hearing that our electric grid will be shut down some time this year. On the off chance this is accurate information, I suggest people prepare best they can. Learn how to live without electricity now, so if or when it happens you have some skills to deal with it and won’t join the millions who will panic (and die).
The power is in the people who actually do the work not the Governments that try and shout out the orders . People should be responsible for their actions and ruling themselves as a world wide population by now listening to everybody’s voice and experience by voting 🗳 for absolutely everything online . Instead of being told what to do by outdated greed based Governments that don’t work in favour of the people who voted 🗳 for them like sheep 🐑 . Wake up and work together to improve your life instead of letting someone else destroy it .
Helpful idea** fasting, cut back on worldly material things and learn self obedience, submit to pray and patience. Learn to go without devices and electricity so if a a time comes one is with out their daily lifestyle, they can be mentally prepared…. I lived in a third world country for 8 years, it changed my life. It wasn’t easy, but what I went through, it was a blessing, that experience humbled me in ways I never knew possible… perusal poor kids and families happy with 2 meals a day and never complaning, eating everything on their plates and helping their parents with house hold chores while going to school. Playing with their friends with the same set of clothes for days. Taped broken shoes. Having one school uniform for a year. No electricity for days, and when it does come on…. It’s paradise 🤗 I thank God 🙏 for all the years he gave me to live with his creations…
To piggyback on one of his mentions, my son, while alive, was on the electrical contracting business specializing in alternative power systems, primarily for hospitals. He surmised, after having made numerous visits to power plants in areas where he had projects going on, one person with a high powered rifle could penetrate and bring down a nuclear powerplant…. with one properly directed shot!
As a volunteer for a 1 year contract with the Red Cross, I asked to be responsible to coordinate the disaster pre and post actions; coordinating with local food suppliers, farmers, grocers, and college campus kitchens, truck drivers, potable refrigeration vehicles, etc., and encouraged them to sign a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) for 34 counties of North Carolina. It had been at least 6-7 years since this was done. New people in charge, new maps to be coordinated, changes in roadways, etc. are all matters which need to be updated and documented by organizations like the Red Cross or even Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Are they doing this preparedness proactively and we just don’t know? Thank you to @Sam Feinburg for shining the light on this. :thanksdoc:
The lesson to be learned by every human being today is that your life will end one day. There is absolutely no way of stopping your death. This is a time to reflect on how BS money, material possessions are and how your life is a gift that will be required to end one day. Whether it’s all together or one at a time, it’s going to happen. These type of crisis is exactly why religions were created in the first place. Facing the truth that your life is very short can definitely cause such a great fear.
He is spot on about the transformers There is a very limited global production capacity for large power transformers. They are built by a few companies with a small group of skilled technicians The power grid east of the Rockies is one giant interconnected machine. The integrity of the complete grid can be disrupted fairly easily. Smaller control areas can re establish service some at the time provided there is no damage to major equipment. Transformers are more easily damaged than you can imagine just a reduction in system frequency can fry the internals. A solar event can unbalance the line voltages in a way that can quickly destroy them due to core overheating. Each transformer is a custom design. The risk from this can’t be overstated . stand by home generators are good for about up a week. If the outage is widespread, fuel availability becomes a problem. This same problem will cause water and sewer services to fail. It is well known that markets have only a 3 day supply of food . Anyone who lives in an area where storms cause disruption to utility services know this is generous. Large cities will quickly become death traps . As these people swarm out into the country side they will find there is no one prepared to feed and shelter them. Requests will quickly become demands and civil order will descend into violence. It will only go down hill from there. The government will not save you. You & our family will go hungry and possibly starve. Ask yourself, do you have emergency food supplies?
7:58 I remember that blackout. It was something but it doesn’t compare to the ice storm that hit us in southern Quebec on January 1998. It was disastrous. Hydro Quebec worked 24 hours a day for months to restore the grid. Even with the help of our neighbouring provinces and states of Ontario, New Brunswick, Vermont, New York and Maine, and our Armed Forces, it took four weeks in my little township near Montreal before we got electricity back. It was a dark and cold episode of misery for a lot of people.
Unfortunately solar and wind power will make the grid more vulnerable not less vulnerable. Unless each home and business has energy storage capability and can run at least partially independently of the grid or off grid entirely. Most solar power on residences is only connected to a grid inverter. If grid power goes down you are still left powerless. Worse yet solar and wind unbalance the grid rather than balance it, making the grid more vulnerable. There is also a move to make everybody even totally grid dependent. Some states are trying to prohibit new natural gas installations and make most cars electric. Now if the grid goes down you won’t have a useful automobile or gas stove or gas fireplace in the name of stopping climate change.
It’s nice that you brought this up. In my opinion too much money is directed toward projects in unhabitable spaces (like over 10 millions in Antarctica, and more money in space) instead of thinking about improving our world here where we all live right now, and also being prepared for an upcoming catastrophe. The expenses are often mindblowing and questionned by many. Instead it seems like contributing to more social catastrophes as well as gaining control and power is more important than caring in building a truly better world for all.
I don’t necessarily agree with what he keeps saying about humans “being terrible at listening to warnings”. If anything I think humans are always so worried and always so paranoid about everything. We are so easy to scare as a species and so yes, sometimes people don’t want to stress out about something that’s supposedly going to happen when we’ve had so many “warnings” about things that never ended up happening. How’re you supposed to know what to believe. Wasn’t the world supposed to end in 2000 and then 2012? It’s always something.
Thank you for sharing this with us. Today I read about the possibility of us having a x flare as soon as a week from now. We are all going to suffer a slow death if it happens in any way. Besides not having food or transportation, we wouldn’t survive the oppressive heat or cold in our homes. It is truly unimaginable.
Catastrophic failure of the electrical grid will very likely occur eventually, and it will likely take many months or years to repair the damage. Once this failure happens to the electrical grid, there will be cascading failures of many essential services across the country, affecting the health system, food and water distribution, transportation, education, law enforcement, etc. What’s more, such a catastrophic failure of the electrical grid would be orders of magnitude worse during another national emergency such as the COVID-19 crisis. The naive ignoramuses presently presiding over the country must soon wake up and take failsafe measures to protect the hundreds of millions of people they are charged with protecting. It may soon be too late.
What’s next! Btw, I was in NYC during the huge 3 plus days blackout. It was SO fun! I was in the subway coming from the Bronx!..going to Brooklyn and right as the train was about to leave Manhattan island and head into the tunnel under the east river heading to Brooklyn, the lights went out! 😱 Luckily the last car just barely left the station and was still by the service platform so we could all walk out the back door and onto the platform without having to worry about walking on the tracks. After being stuck on the train for about 45 minutes, we finally got out of the dark station with the help of MTA workers with flashlights, we were met with the full summer sun and a traffic jam that left the city at a full stop. From where we were at Cith Hall in Downtown Manhattan, we could clearly see the Manhattan bridge and Hundreds of Thousands of people already crossing over into Brooklyn on foot. I had no other choice and just as far to my place in Brooklyn as my folks in Manhattan so I walked. The comradery that day was amazing! Everyone was so relieved that it wasn’t another 911 which had just happened a few years earlier, that we were like “we got this!”. It was great!
Many have alluded to this happening and been crying out for years to harden our power grid. And yes this is very possible with one nuke detonated at a high altitude over the middle of our nation, it is theorized this would take out 90 percent of our nation’s power grid and any other electronics in the affected area. People are starting to question the government in our nation. Ànd when we all finally say this is not good, then the next thing will come. We are at a turning point and if we do nothing then, we become responsible for our failure to listen to the warnings. How do we avoid this? For those of us who claim Christ as Lord and Saviour we need to repent and seek God for He is our only hope, do it not brothers and sisters and what comes is of our own doing. We have been warned of these things coming for thousands of years! Enough said! 2 Chronicles 7:14 King James Version If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
The drying up of the Colorado River is going to create a powergrid crisis which nobody seems to consider. If all buildings in the southwest were mandated to have solar panels & powerplants were built to serve the communities they are located next too,the coming energy crisis would not be so debilitating.
Incompendent people “doing” the job. According to my husband, an expert in protection and control of the electrical energy systems, US and Canada have an primitive and inefficient system. Quebec built their own protection system. Others didn’t. He was shocked listening to the head of the US Electric power grid talking total nonsense.
I know how to create a solution to this situation. We need to attach a lot of solar rechargeable batteries to our grid that can also reflect off extremely high energy beams from the sun. Before the threat of a solar storm we would turn the grids off. The high energy beams would be partially soaked up by the recharble batteries. Once the rechargeable batteries are full they should instantly shut off automatically and work to refract the rest of the solar particles coming from the sun. We need to make something that can absorb the high energy and refract it at the same time so when a solar storm happens again, it wont knock our power sources out. This is a real problem that needs to be worked out and we need to have a plan in place before the next solar storm comes up. There will definitely be another solar storm. That is something we will have to worry about forever. We could create something also that can store that high energy from solar storms to use. It would still have to refract a lot of solar energy off though.
I don’t think we’re terrible at listening to the predictions, but I do think we’re terrible at prioritizing. Estimating the probabilities and the impact is hard and we’re bad at understanding large numbers and rare events. Anecdotes where people warned about events that happened are not useful, but cases where people are shut down just because what they were saying was not convenient are a warning. We should allow people to speak.
Reading these comments is really amusing. Like most folks think they’re actually immortal, and there’s some sort of conspiracy theory ruling the world; and there IS. He’s called Satan (1John 5: 19) and he’s giving power and glory to whomever he wants (Luke 4: 5, 6). But his days are short (Revelation 12: 12) (Daniel 2: 44).
I grew up in a military and rural family. Every time I visit a large urban center (hive), I am still amazed that many people there don’t know there is a world outside of the streets, don’t know where there food comes from, can’t find fresh water except from a tap or bottle, and can barely hold a conversation with a live person. I thank GOD I know how to survive without electricity… I also wonder why we should care if the artificial urban cesspools lost power and died off? This might actually be a good thing for the rest of humanity. Noah had the flood to cleanse the world, perhaps we need this.
A long blackout is horrible but a short one can be nice. I remember the 2011 San Diego blackout. Everybody was in the streets hanging out with neighbors. You couldn’t shop — cash registers weren’t working. You couldn’t work. You couldn’t get captured at home by TV or YouTube! Best afternoon in my life 🙂
I got used to loosing power for a week or 2 (Florida) after hurricanes. So I purchased a Generac 22KW auto-transfer whole house generator. Runs on Propane (fuel can’t spoil). If I know a blackout is going to be extended beyond my ability to have propane tanks ( 2-100gal) refilled, I can shut the generator off manually & save it for AC during sleeping hours. I am on the water and can gillnet fish if I have to (illegal) + I have dehydrated emergency food kit for a family for 1 month. Plenty of fresh water upriver
Prep now! Food, water, a way to start a fire, fuel to burn it. Learn to grow food, raise animals. Pay off your debts NOW! Keep your purchases LOCAL. Buy and sell LOCAL. It’s a mindset. Get to know your neighbors. Discover your strengths and weaknesses. Help one another. Learn now. If you wait…it will be too late.
solar can give your self power, a microwave protects against elocto magnetic pulses so you can possibly make a massive one faraday cage to as protect your electronics from a emp you can use tin foil but you can possibly use sheet metal and wood a wooden interior and inch to quarter inch sheet metal what I’d do is make a wooden frame then put sheet metal up a quarter inch of wooden sheets and then tick tinfoil then put another layer of sheet metal and cover it on all sides but keep one side open so you can close it in case of a emp to put essential electronics inside like a vehicle components to make a solar backup for your electronics etc.
Yup. It’s coming. WEF says so. This is eerie 2021 incoming. I am thinking if everything wasn’t on the Internet like the grid we would be a lot safer from cyber attacks. We lived like that along time ago so I think we better go back in time and get rid of the Internet altogether. Yeah I was there I live in Quebec so I remember that time
Prophetic. If you wait till it happens to prepare you won’t find supplies or they will be to costly. If you are prepared, tell few as those that haven’t prepared will come for your supplies. It will be the lack of information from the authorities that will panic people the most after 5 days or more without power. Should it happen good luck and my your god keep and protect you.
As a strong minded and calm person when faced with extreme situations. Someone who has the power tools and hand tools to repair, fix and install most construction trades. Someone who majored in sustainable agriculture. Who has a rudimentary but practical experience in creating and harnessing electricity. Who has Faraday caged the digital documents to the world’s major advancements. Thermodynamics, aeronautical, recipes for concrete, irrigation, sanitation stations, governing practices, pharmacology and health. And terabytes more info. It absolutely INFURIATES me that pleading “guilty” to a felony a decade ago. Is the ONLY reason the laws say I cannot own a firearm. I can protect my family and self in so many ways but I am denied my basic human right as an American to safely store a gun in a safe along with preparedness supplies. I face years of incarnation for just being in the presence of a bullet. It saddens me to the core of my manhood
During 911 I was close enough to the power plant in Ossining that we all knew we’d die in 20 min slowly so in my small town a group of us with no cell phones working, gathered in main part of street. We joked well what should we do drive north… yeah that would be smart. To Canada? Yup we should! Did we? No…. Bc everyone we loved lived there or was in the city. We made calls on a old phone still wired into wall at a thrift store. We learned what we could of our friends and family and then we decided to walk in the mountains (the gunks) then make a huge dinner and maybe watch a movie. His point is that we could solve this by unifying, which he’s right but it just reminded me of that night and now how people are preparing for no food, grid down, and all the disasters. Without good friends and family, with Up being able to feed and shelter people you love it would be so hard. I think creating community is far wiser. People say you better have guns to shoot your neighbors when they didn’t prepare abandon are hungry or their baby is hungry or sick. So plan on helping them.
Why is the power grid so vulnerable to so many kinds of natural or malevolent attack? Because none of its engineering considered it being attacked. Engineers are not inherently optimists, and left alone naturally think of nearly all things that can go wrong, but the powers-that-be who hire them are short sighted optimists, and they have invested nil into robustness against attack. Don’t expect the cheapest and simplest solutions to withstand out of the ordinary conditions.
Recently lived without power or heat in a big city. Had running water. Used solar power for laptop and rechargeable headlights to see at night. For heat we layered up. For access to the internet we would generally end up at the local library or venues. I had to share with people I assume(maybe incorrectly) could go home and plug in their laptop but wanted to “get out”. That meant it was really hard to access resources in a decent manner. During “COVID” many people managed to “hide” in their homes and it was somewhat easier to access resources but as soon as people felt “safe” again they ran out an took up resources others have a harder time accessing. A blackout would serve one really awesome purpose. We would become a lot more equal than we are now. If you don’t believe me then try to find a decent laundromat in Vancouver.
Part of me wonders of Cyber Polygon will end up like this: The exercise already took place, but some suspect it’s cover for a contrived event. It sounds out there, but it would be beneficial for those in power. While everybody’s helpless, you could pretty much do anything. I’ve tried to spread warnings and nobody’s listened.
February 2021 Texas Electrical Blackout Disaster. Governor Abbott is not the one you need to throw out in the street from his job, he is merely a symptom. It is the Texas legislature. They are special interest representatives not public servants. It is all about election funding and candidate funding.