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Disclaimer: this is all far outside my wheelhouse. But IIRC, the task of preparing our grid for another Carrington Event isn’t all that dissimilar from protect
by macintux 6y ago
Disclaimer: this is all far outside my wheelhouse.
But IIRC, the task of preparing our grid for another Carrington Event isn’t all that dissimilar from protecting it against an EMP attack, and last I read it was remarkably cheap.
Certainly dramatically cheaper than the F-35 program. I seem to recall it was so cheap Congress could practically pay for it with change found in the couch.
- wrycoder 6y agoIf that's the case, why doesn't Congress pass enabling legislation for DOE regulations that would require the power industry to provide the necessary protection and spares within a defined time frame?
- tchock23 6y agoI seem to recall reading it was around $500 million to do in the US, but can’t find where I read that. If true, that seems like a tiny amount for insurance against something like this.
- macintux 6y agoThat's the price tag I've seen before as well, which seems like the kind of investment that should have been made a decade ago. I didn't have the stomach to read more about it, but someone in the DOE(?) in the last administration came up with a plan to improve the grid, but because some portion of that story involved renewable energy (thus lessening the need for coal) it was dropped like a hot potato. (I could have some portion of that wrong; I simply get too depressed reading about that cesspool.)