@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.
@zbLoodlust087
The government certainly has the money to fix it yet lgbt, Israel and Ukraine are more important to electricity to its citizens
@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
@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.
@iamkesha.
It is irritating how the people who are pushing EVs are ignoring updating the grid that is needed to power our society.
@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.
@KuzzatAltay
Why weren’t you born in the US, Patrick? We need you as the president.
@PWPNation
During the first 6 months of COVID, i said, " You think this is bad? Wait until there is an internet shutdown."
@steeldriver1776
We’re too busy buying out other governments to be worried about basic necessities here.
@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".
@Winnspeed
My brother and I have been in the utility industry for 20 years, worked all over the United States…….if Americans only knew.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@lorenzomunisami6083
In South Africa we already experience this on a daily basis. Loadshedding
@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.
@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.
@meinking22