Jim Pierobon is Founder and principal writer of The Energy Fix. He is a policy, marketing and social media strategist who has reported on, testified and consulted about smarter grids, cyber-security as it affects the power grid, fossil fuel shortages, price spikes, energy efficiency and the rise and fall -- and the rise again of nuclear and renewable energy sources.Smart Grids may make U.S. more vulnerable to electromagnetic pulses from solar flares or a terrorist attack
While the U.S. Congress, President Obama and the Tea Party wrangle over debt ceilings and deficit spending, a far more potent threat looms as a growing number of intelligence experts warn of how a massive solar flare or a nuclear missile detonated above the United States could kill wipe out the power grid, disable consumer [...]
Posted in Cyber security, Energy security, National security, Smart grids, Terrorism, U.S. military | Also tagged Center for Security Policy, China, CIA, Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack, Drew Miller, electromagnetic pulse, EMP, EMP Commission, Frank Gaffney, Heritage Foundation, Iran, James Jay Caraano, NASA, North Korea, Peter Pry, Rohan Nation: Reinventing America After the 2020 Collapse, Russia, solar flare, Solar Maximum, terrorist attack, U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett