Power Is Power: The Vulnerable Electrical Grid

EPISODE 113 | Power Is Power: The Vulnerable Electrical Grid

Guest: Chris Underwood, author of the The Cold Winter series

Our digital age needs electricity more than anything else. But what would happen is part of the power grid went down during one of the worst winter storms in history? That's the premise of Chris Underwood's thriller series The Cold Winter. The fact is that power grid is vulnerable, and a series of low-tech in recent years have highlighted some serious problems that have still not been addressed. 

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SECTIONS

1. 02:35 -  A look at the first two novels, the inspiration and overall plot
2. 09:10 - The third book, the history of the Ohio River, companies still use COBOL, Huey helicopters and LST-235
3. 13:56 - Blackouts inspire the Pentagon to commission the report Brittle Power, it all costs money, attacks against the grid in the 70s and later - the Metcalf Sniper Attacks, Russian hacks by Grizzly Steppe, transformers made in China, Jason Woodring's Arkansas attacks, a neo-Nazi couple in Baltimore, human attacks increasing, power stations themselves need power
4. 24:20 - Weaponizing extreme climate, HAARP, the Walking Dead with weather, people become extreme in extreme situations
5. 27:47 - Four types of threats, false flags 
6. 32:57 - We ship coal to China, cold fusion holdouts, education is the cure, the cavalry is not coming 
7. 37:38 - Point Pleasant's Mothman Festival, The Creatures of Holden Beach, this is a different Chris Underwood, prepper conventions, the Dayton Air Show

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

• Chris Underwood website
• The Cold Winter series by Chris Underwood
• The Mist by Stephen King
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• How a butterfly's wing can bring down Goliath / Chaos theories calculate the vulnerability of megasystems
• Blackouts cause N America chaos
• Hacking The Electric Grid Is Damned Hard
• Keeping the electric grid safe from attack
• Sophisticated but low-tech power grid attack baffles authorities
• U.S. Power Grid Vulnerable to Attack: Congressional Research Service
• Attacks on power substations are growing. Why is the electric grid so hard to protect?
• How the US power grid is a target for far-right groups
• The story of Jason Woodring, the Arkansas power grid vandal
• Southern Idaho Man Sentenced for Destruction of Energy Facility After Shooting at Idaho Power Hydroelectric Plants
• Sniper attack on California power grid may have been 'an insider,' DHS says
• Physical attacks on power grid surge to new peak
• Extremists keep trying to trigger mass blackouts — and that’s not even the scariest part
• What is going on with attacks on American power stations?
• Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security by Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins
• Electric Power Grid 'Inherently Vulnerable' to Terrorist Attacks
• Girding the Grid in Security Management 
• Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times
• A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant episode
• Mothman Festival website
• The Creatures of Holden Beach.....And the Murder they did NOT Commit! by Chris Underwood
• Prepper Camp
• The Dayton Air Show

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