A rebel attack on a key transmission line shut off electricity to 80 percent of Pakistan’s population, blacking out the world’s second largest city, Karachi, and the nation’s capital of Islamabad. Around 140 million people – including 23.5 million in ...
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FBI Admits: Sabotaging Power Grid Incredibly Easy
A top FBI agent has admitted that the electric power grid is vulnerable to acts of sabotage but he denied claims that an attack on an electric substation in Silicon Valley last year was terrorism. John Lightfoot also said that ...
Read More »How To Survive Indefinitely Without Modern Medicine
Recently on Off The Grid News I discussed an alternative strategy for long-term survival if society ends as we know it — returning to a 19th century lifestyle. Instead of relying on modern resources like generators or pumps, with their ...
Read More »How A Simple Solar Flare Could Doom America — And The World
“The eastern sky appeared of a blood red color,” wrote a resident of South Carolina’s Sullivan Island. “The sea reflected the phenomenon, and no one could look at it without thinking of the passage in the Bible which says, ‘the ...
Read More »Terrorists Plotting A Major Power Grid Attack?
A power grid attack occurred in Arizona last week, yet it barely caused a flutter in the 24/7 news cycle. If the makeshift bomb had functioned as designed, more than 30,000 residents would have been in the dark, sent back ...
Read More »How To Keep The Milk Cold And The House Warm In A Power Outage
Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series. Next installment: Long-term power outages. Electrical power outages are becoming more and more common. With the condition of our aging electrical grid, this really shouldn’t come as much of a ...
Read More »Blackouts Coming Under Obama EPA Regulations, Senator Warns
The Obama administration’s restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions will lead to blackouts in the winter months, US Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) is warning. Inhofe believes that the shutdown of older coal-burning power plants because of Environmental Protection Agency restrictions will ...
Read More »Power Grid Failure Leaves 70 Percent Of Venezuela In The Dark
A failure of the power grid left 70 percent of the nation of Venezuela without electricity in early September. Venezuela was the world’s eighth-largest net oil exporter in 2010, and, the same year, had the second-largest natural gas reserves in the ...
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