As news of increased solar storm hazard should prompt action, is Energy Secretary ignoring warnings?
News headlines over the past two weeks point to a major increase in solar activity, some of which could be...
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We Dodged a Solar Bullet, But Must Secure the Grid
The headline in a British tabloid yesterday read, “A HUGE solar storm is heading towards Earth which could leave us...
F.E.M.A. Document Reveals 130 Million Americans Could Suffer Extended Blackouts Due to Intense Solar Storm
In the latest official confirmation about the acute vulnerability of the U.S. electric grid, the Washington Free Beacon has revealed...
Solar storms are destroying industrial electrical equipment
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information contact: Nik Hanlon | [email protected] | 202-719-2418 September 12, 2014 For immediate release: This weekend’s...
Resilient Societies Files Appeal at FERC of Defective Standard For Solar Storms; Electric Utilities Not Required to Spend Ten Cents Per American to Protect Nation
“Ninety percent of utilities are exempted from compliance with the NERC solar storm standard, including operators of 102 nuclear power...
Space Weather
Former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey reported this week that we recently, narrowly dodged a kind of storm that...
SHIELD Act to protect from solar catastrophes, electromagnetic pulses
It’s among the greatest threats facing America today, U.S. Congressman Trent Franks states bluntly: a tremendous electromagnetic pulse, either naturally...
Nasty Space Weather
It’s often said that “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” That’s especially true of “space...
Doing something about space weather
A wit once observed a persistent truth: “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” That has...
Straw in the solar wind
Breaking nearly two weeks of silence, Communist China has now confirmed that it did indeed successfully attack and destroy an...
A model of resilience: Waldo County Maine’s off-grid emergency operations center
Click HERE to read the full Report Waldo County is an idyllic New England community in the Midcoastal region of...
For the cost of less than 1% of the Biden infrastructure bill we could protect our electric grid from certain collapse
Unless something is done, the American electrical grid will almost certainly die… from natural causes. Most Americans regard the sun...
Looming blackouts should spur action- especially in Texas
Headlines last week warned that large parts of the Midwest and Western United States could suffer blackouts this summer, due...
Power grid security gaps could cause irreversible environmental catastrophes – A solution is within reach
In recent years, more people in the U.S. have been touched by natural disasters and human induced environmental catastrophes than...
Will energy department fix security gaps that could cause environmental calamity?
The deadly California wildfires in recent years that have caused significant environmental and economic damage and even killed numerous people...
Will Texas fail to lead on grid resilience?
After suffering one of the nation’s most costly blackouts in February of this year, the citizens the Lone Star State...