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There is NO PLAN to keep power grids from failing

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Jul 03, 2021
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In 2016 I read the book “Lights Out” written by Ted Koppel. The book outlined how exposed our power grid was to catastrophic failure.

It scared the shit out of me.

The situation described in the book was so dire and so unexpected I could hardly believe it was true.

Ted Koppel, the long-time host of ABC’s late night news program, Nightline, leveraged…

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