All posts tagged with Grid
-
-(Natural News) By the year 2025, Switzerland could face weeks or even months at a time with no electricity, warned President Guy Parmelin in a recent statement. The central European country does not produce enough electricity to meet demand, forcing it to import. However, one of its suppliers, Germany, is phasing out its nuclear energy […]
-
-(Natural News) As of this writing, nearly one million energy customers in Louisiana are still without power due to Hurricane Ida, and officials are warning that it could take up to a month to get things fully restored. In the meantime, most of New Orleans is blacked out, as are other nearby communities that were […]
-
-(Natural News) The cyber attack on the Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline Company has shed light on just how vulnerable we are as a nation to hackers and other threats compromising essential services and infrastructure. Last week, cars could be seen lining up at gas stations throughout the Southeastern part of the nation after a cyber attack […]
-
-(Natural News) The latest excuse out of Texas as to why much of the state’s power grid failed during the recent cold weather event is that Republican lawmakers were counting on global warming to keep the energy production systems from freezing. Rather than properly winterize the state’s wind turbines, Republican lawmakers instead relied upon a […]
-
Texas family sues Entergy for gross negligence after 11-year-old boy froze to death during blackouts
-(Natural News) A Houston-area couple is suing Entergy, the utility company in charge of Texas energy, for gross negligence following the death of their 11-year-old son during the recent blackouts. Cristian Pineda was found dead after trying to stay warm by huddling up in a single room. When his parents found him lying there unconscious, […] -
-(Natural News) Had China Joe simply signed off on Texas’ request to up its energy generation maximum from 60 percent to full capacity in anticipation of the recent polar vortex disaster, the Lone Star State never would have suffered any blackouts. This is the claim of the @amuse account on Twitter, the owner of which […]
-
-(Natural News) The prospect of the nation’s electrical grid being compromised has been a concern for many years, but worries are ramping up as Russia appears to be mastering systems that can overcome the protections that have been put in place to preserve the integrity of the grid. Recent intelligence shows that Russia now possesses […]
-
-(Natural News) Earlier this week, officials from Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), California’s largest electricity provider, publicly announced that the company would be shutting off people’s electricity on purpose as a preventative measure to mitigate wildfire risk. But what’s to become of Californians’ electric cars during this time? The “environmentally friendly” solution to the traditional […]
-
-(Natural News) When the power goes out, you’ll just light some candles and read a book and wait for it to pass, right? That might be enough to get you through a couple of hours without electricity in a rainstorm, but if there’s a protracted power outage due to collapse, it’s going to be a different […]
-
-(Natural News) The amount of electricity required to mine and transact Bitcoin is now so high that a small county in Washington state is having to kick production into overdrive. According to reports, Douglas County, located in almost the dead-center of the state, has some of the cheapest electricity rates in the country, and this has […]
Viewing 1 - 10 of 10 posts