Posts Tagged: the grid
February 12, 2018
How are innovative utilities securing our nations electrical grid
A number of threats to our nations electrical grid are in desperate need of an answer. Current threats are not solely from wartime risks such as cyber attacks, an EMP weapon or conventional weapons. Other threats to the grid may come from natural disasters or solar flares. Some risks that our grid is facing come from the growth of the grid itself, service reliability and matching generation to supply are also concerns. Public and[…]
January 29, 2018
The greatest threats to our Nations power grid
When you think of the current threat environment that developed nations face, one of the last things normally mentioned is the power grid. Power grids are an essential part of any developed and developing countries in so that without it, the country would be unable to operate like it should. Communications would be cut off, hospitals and other essential services would slowly be weened[…]
January 22, 2018
America deserves clean, alternative energy. So where is it?
Dreaming of Alternative Energy In 1901, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla outlined his plans for wireless distribution of clean, free energy. His Wardenclyffe Tower on Long Island was but the first structure built to test his idyllic system upon a planned utopian community called Radio City. Alas financier J.P. Morgan pulled the plug on Tesla’s dream, concerned that energy consumption should not be free for[…]
