5 Insane Things That Will Destroy Our Power Grid

To be honest, most of us don\'t want to live without electricity.
The wires of this great country criss-crossed and filled our homes with refrigerated meats, video game machines and air conditioners.
The grid is likely to be the most valuable resource in the US, so you can expect it to be quite good --
Prevent terrorists, cyber anti-social people and rodents.
Well, sitting with an executive at a power company dedicated to protecting and modernizing us, he also revealed a hard news, that is, our power grid is almost as well maintained as the floor of the taxi.
5 The power outage was caused by the ridiculous random bullring. As we said, there is now an Army trying to dismantle the world grid.
They are dedicated, they are countless, they are willing to die.
They are small and furry.
They are squirrels.
They run on the wires, chew anything that looks like they carry more than 1,000 volts of electricity, and die.
Other times they keep stretching, grab the power cord and transformer and try to be a high voltage pipe
Voltage current, and mold.
It\'s like having a specific squirrel lineage, and its only purpose in the universe is to knock down the power while you\'re in the middle of the marathon River.
This is not a small problem either. .
A company in NE found that squirrels cause more power outages every year than lightning.
Where squirrels cause 300 power outages a year, they spend more than $100,000 a year installing technology to protect their power grids from squirrels (
The \"technology\" here refers to the big head of the squirrel.
\"Deflection metal \")
, It seems to be an unnecessary sum of money until you think that squirrels have caused estimated value damage to their grid in a year.
Some terrorist organizations are less effective in destroying government infrastructure.
But they are not the only enemy, not even the most ridiculous.
As early as 2003, there was a massive power outage in Canada and the United States, resulting in power outages for more than 50 million people, which were not caused by ice storms or atomic monsters ---
Because a branch scraped on the wire, it caused a large-scale power outage. That\'s it.
So far, the reason for the blackout has spread is that the alarm system is in place, reminding technicians that s ** t has crashed an hour ago, and.
In addition, another technician went to lunch without turning on the equipment that monitors the state of the grid.
So basically, millions of households lose power because the people in charge of the grid are too lazy to make sure the grid actually works.
A lot of people blame the power outage on a \"software error\" that is the code of \"Sorry, my bad guy\" in our industry.
\"I will not say that I am here to state indisputable facts, but I would not be surprised if the alarm system that failed to predict the second largest power outage in human history did not\" crash \"to\" shut down.
\"These alarms keep beeping and beeping becomes very irritating, so it\'s not uncommon for technicians to either ignore them or turn them off.
If this seems hard to believe, click on the View engineer to ask the GE Forum and she can configure the alert to alert her only if the factory is about to explode :(Emphasis ours. )
While she still wants to be told this is good when her business premises are about to detonate, I think a good way to prevent this from happening is at this point, you might want to know why the internet was so vulnerable to stupid threats in the first place. Well . . .
Given the speed at which our electronic devices have developed over the last few decades, everything is old and ground-breaking, and you may think that our ability to power these devices has improved.
But you will be very incorrect.
According to the Ministry of Energy, the country\'s power transformers have a history of at least 25 years.
Most of our grids were built in the 1970 s and 1960 s, some from.
Some of America\'s power infrastructure is old enough to be built by Civil War veterans: High demand and poor supplies of cocktails begin to reach critical mass in the form of ongoing power outages.
Average number of nondisaster-
Related power outages affecting at least 50,000 people, from 41 to 1995 in 1991 to 92 to 2005 in 2001.
This means that the power outage in the vanilla ice and Walkman era is 124% less than the era that gave us the Large Hadron Collider and the International Space Station.
Now, on 2014, there is no electricity for at least two hours on any day.
It seems like a minor annoyance, but the average power outage can have hidden consequences.
For example, the loss from power outages ranged between $70 billion and $120 billion.
The Northeast blackout I mentioned earlier cost the United States. S.
Even though it lasted only two days, Canada paid $10 billion.
Large and medium-sized companies lose an average of 30 minutes without electricity, with an average outage duration.
Every time the lights are turned off, it is like a small thief.
But, hey, solving all these problems means either raising the electricity bill for everyone or raising their taxes.
That means we\'re almost sure to be there for 130-year-
See how far they have taken us.
They \'ve been there for so long, right?
\"Wait,\" you might say, \"What about all the discussions about green energy and the new modern grid?
Won\'t all this trouble pass? \" Well . . .
Green energy is completely unpredictable. The key issue you need to know about our grid is that unless the energy demand matches the energy supply, the grid crashes.
When there is too little energy produced and there is too much demand for it, the grid will be interrupted, The Game Station will be closed, and in a few minutes people will eat cats on the street.
Things like solar panels and wind power are called \"green\" because they have the potential to save our environment from the current smoke --
Fart generation of engine.
But people working in power companies call it \"variable power\" because their energy output fluctuates so much that they are as reliable as lifeguards in the pool behind Walmart.
If the weather is particularly cloudy or windless, the grid will not have enough power to supply the required energy and the entire grid will not function properly.
Remember when I said that the energy supplied met the energy of demand?
There are two ways. -
Solar and wind energy also pose the risk of generating too much energy.
If the weather is too clear and the wind is too windy, the power grid will be flooded and fried by itself because of some dazzling tornado or whatever.
We have seen this happen almost as the big storm passes through the wind farm.
This seemingly contradictory idea of \"too much energy\" is also why you charge electric cars in Texas.
Utilities usually have surplus power at night, in order to keep the grid running ,.
The price of electricity can range from expensive to dirty cheap, and utility companies will actually pay you for using it.
This is not a joke.
\"Why don\'t we just store extra energy at night so it\'s OK when demand increases? \"Well . . .
2 energy cannot be very difficult to store, which is the real root of the green energy problem: storing it.
You see, there\'s a reason why we\'re not just Frankenstein disappearing from the grid and collecting unlimited energy from lightning strikes.
Being able to store enough batteries to power towns is both extremely expensive and completely rubbish, and as you may have noticed, it\'s not a perfect combination of two.
Store 5 KW of the energy in lithiumion batteries (
About the average monthly amount needed to power the hair dryer)
Thousands of dollars.
A football field-sized battery can store 40 million watts of electricity, which sounds big, but it can support a small town if no one is watching Netflix.
Storage of energy is not a viable option for most utilities.
This is an expensive fantasy that is not worth paying, and that is why we are so dependent on fossil fuels.
The future solution to our energy dilemma may be to fill the foundation and basement of each house in the country with connected batteries.
However, there is still a long way to go on this day. That football-field-
The size battery we mentioned is the largest battery in the world, located in Fairbanks, Alaska.
It weighs 1,300 metric tons and can provide electricity to 12,000 of the city\'s 100,000 residents. . .
Seven minutes.
It\'s still useful, of course. -
When there is a problem with the main grid, it can prevent power failure as a backup battery-
But in a relatively small range, you can see the problem of trying to convert the entire grid.
\"But what if everyone had their own solar panels?
So no matter what, the grid will not be affected!
\"Well, an eco-friendly home with solar panels installed in every square inch of the house, if they want to power up when it\'s cloudy or rainy, they still have to reconnect to the grid because, again, green energy is a Harsh Mistress and the big battery is an unreliable nightmare.
We may not be ready for a sudden surge in demand, if there is too much demand
Once the power grid is re-connected, it may cause a power outage.
Of course, this is not a problem if you install a special meter to monitor the electricity and power generation of these people, but the unfortunate problem we face is that many of them are very self-contained
There are also enough people to generate their own strength.
This is because many of them are now \"buying solar panels due to the upcoming Apocalypse\" and they believe we are trying to keep an eye on them, or (no bullshit)
Give them cancer because I think they think we are trying to keep them away from cancer to keep our control over the energy of the free world.
The electrician actually had it when installing the meter, because the information about your preferred air conditioning setup is clearly the kind of thing you bring to your grave.
Speaking of the revelation scene. . .
Yes, at the time I started this work, hackers could directly destroy the grid, and it makes sense that power companies are switching to a central computerized \"command center\" because it\'s the future.
Unfortunately, no one is aware that Internet access will be at the mercy of people using the Internet.
First, the power grid may suffer (
Tools used by assholes to delete their angry websites).
Overwhelm our web links with traffic, prank-
Internet users (
By the way, who is using the energy we generate to power their computers)
It can eliminate our ability to communicate with our own power grid.
Penetration is another huge problem.
I remember hearing a hacker break into the monitoring and data collection system of the Texas Water Plant and posting online pictures of the water plant \"command center\" claiming that he could turn various pumps in the waste
Water treatment facilities can be turned on or off if he wishes.
To understand what could happen, a hydropower station was once accessed remotely by managers with questionable skills trying to increase the power plant\'s energy output.
Flooded the factory and destroyed it, killing dozens of workers (
Because the Internet is an incredible tool for freedom of speech/killing people for no reason).
In the past three years alone, utilities have submitted urgent reports.
I know someone is hacking into the utility network to prove how easy this is.
Worst of all, no one is really ready to deal with the networkSecurity issues.
I work with utilities to help integrate cybersecurity into the grid, and you don\'t know how many times I \'ve heard the other end say, \"We think it\'s too hard, so we stopped trying.
\"A European utility company we interviewed told us that they don\'t give priority to security management because they don\'t know how to do it.
Put your grid on the internet without any security, just like putting a bag of cash in the stroller and in the parking lot for the Foghat concert.
So, yes, please be grateful if your strength lasts long enough to read the article.
It\'s a bit surprising that all of this is still working.