A mysterious attack on an electrical substation and fiber optic cables in California’s Silicon Valley last spring has the FBI, intelligence officials and members of Congress worried – and some officials even think the “military-style” attack may have been a ...
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The Alternative To Generators You Need When The Power’s Out
Power failures are so common across the aging American electrical gird that it’s a good idea to plan for their eventuality. Even if the duration of the power failure is short (as most are), there is an inconvenience factor with ...
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Astronomers everywhere have been warning about the severe rise in solar flares that is expected for 2013. Even NASA has issued warnings for this, concerned that they could cause major disruptions on a worldwide basis. Part of the problem is ...
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(Continued from Part 1) Less Frequent Potential Disaster Scenarios In conducting risk analysis with regard to the less frequent man-caused and natural disasters, we must take into consideration the extreme severity of such disasters in regard to our measured and ...
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WASHINGTON D.C.—North Korea’s threat to attack specific targets in Hawaii and the continental United States has some United States officials worried that the communist nation will use its “space launch vehicle” to launch a nuclear weapon high overhead the U.S. ...
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