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Cyberspies or solar storms - the real threat to US electrical grid

Solar activity in 1999
Solar activity in 1999. Photo: SOHO

On April 8, a front page article was published in the Wall Street Journal on the dangers posed by cyberspies to the U.S. electrical grid. According to senior intelligence officers who spoke with the Journal, “Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system.” No action has been taken so far to disrupt the electrical grid by China, Russia and other involved countries. In a time of war or national crisis, however, the electrical grid could be severely disrupted by foreign entities disrupting the electrical grid through the internet. The possibility of cyber attacks is considered very real by some sources. Missing entirely from the Wall Street Journal article, however, was any mention of a more likely threat to the electrical grid. A threat that led a prestigious panel of scientists with the National Research Council issuing a report in January 2009 warning of a catastrophic electrical grid failure – giant solar storms around 2012.

Under the Bush administration, $17 billion was dedicated to dealing with cybersecurity and keeping U.S. computer systems running in the event of an attack. The Obama administration is considering whether to increase this under a comprehensive 60 day cybersecurity review to be completed next week. Cyberspies undoubtedly pose a threat to the U.S. electrical grid. They pale into insignificance, however, when compared with the threat posed by massive solar storms bombarding the Earth around 2012 as Solar Cycle 24 peaks. Focusing on possible cyber attacks on the electrical grid is wholly inadequate and even a distraction to the very real threats posed by Solar Cycle 24. Solar storms have been acknowledged by scientists to pose a genuine threat to the U.S. electrical grid. A March 23 article by Michael Brooks of The New Scientist, graphically outlined how millions of American lives would be risk. As we approach 2012, a comprehensive strategy is urgently needed to deal with large scale disruptions to the electrical grid for weeks and even months at a time.
 
The Wall Street Journal report follows just a week after new legislation was introduced into Congress to deal with cyber threats. A Bill titled The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 seeks ‘the development of a cadre of information technology specialists to improve and maintain effective cybersecurity defenses against disruptions, and for other purposes. In addition the Bill enables the President to "declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown Internet traffic.” It would be up to the President to define a “cybersecurity emergency” which among other aspects of the proposed legislation has already sparked strong criticism.
 
As possible threats of cyber attack against the electrical grid are debated, and legislation introduced to counter such threats, it’s worth pausing to consider what may be happening behind the scenes with the real threat posed by solar storms – as National Research Council scientists warned in their 2009 report. Among the most significant problems discussed in the New Scientist article was the threat to electrical transformers that would be fused and destroyed by solar plasma hitting the Earth.Reports are emerging that action has already been secretly taken to deal with the threats posed by Solar Cycle 24. 
 
According to a popular internet website, Project Camelot, the wife of an electrical engineer revealed that her husband had a secret assignment to come up with a solution to the transformer problem posed by a major electromagnetic event in three to four years time. She wrote:
My husband is an electrical engineer for a national power company. He has just been told that they are expecting an event in the next 3-4 years that will render every transformer in the world useless. They are desperately trying to find a solution to the problem. If they don't, the entire global electrical system will go down.
The engineer and wife decided to remain anonymous. Though the claim is unconfirmed, it is consistent with the 2009 National Science Council report about a major electrical grid failure associated with 2012 and the destruction of transformers world wide. According to Daniel Baker, chair of the space science committee responsible for the report: "We're moving closer and closer to the edge of a possible disaster." What gives the report even more urgency is NASA's announcement on December 16, 2008 of a giant hole in the Earth's magnetosphere that will allow up to 20 times the normal rate of solar plasma to enter the Earth.
 
 

I revealed in an earlier article on 2012 Solar Storms, that a radically new power supply and distribution system based on “zero point” or “new energy” was feasible and could be quickly put into production. A number of non-governmental initiatives are underway to support inventors wanting to develop new energy generators. These include the New Energy Movement, the New Energy Congress and the Orion Project, all of which are privately funded and seeking public assistance. These private efforts need to be supplemented by a massive federal government investment in new energy technology and infrastructure that makes the current electrical grid system redundant. That is the best safeguard to any widespread threat to the electrical grid system – whether posed by foreign cyberattack or future solar storms.

President Obama needs to urgently fund a Manhattan size project to develop and supply American families, businesses and essential services with new energy generators independent of the electrical grid over the next three years. That will cost vastly more than the $17 billion for cybersecurity to maintain U.S. computer and electrical networks. Developing a strategy based solely on cyberattacks on the electrical grid is at best inadequate; or, at worst, a distraction to the real threat to America’s electrical grid system.
 
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  • Dorothy 3 years ago

    Aloha Michael. The need to "be prepared" for what-may-come from the natural events being set up for us by the sun far outweigh a need to prepare for potential cyber threats -- threats don't mean it will happen. There is much more information substantiating - if only to some degree - the coming solar storms, while a cyber threat is wholly conjectural. While anyone can "cry wolf" with cyber attacks, what occurs with the sun is far more predictable and real. When one examines more closely all that can transpire from super solar storms pushing through the hole in the magnetosphere, there is much more to be prepared for than protecting our electronics and electronical systems! Due to a lack of public education by our governments regarding this matter [they are using cyber threats/attacks as a form of distraction from the real threat coming from the sun], I recommend that people everywhere get serious about doing their own research into this matter so as to understand more profoundly just what to prepare for, how, and why there is a real need to do so. Doing our own homework so as to make an informed decision either way allows us to take responsibility for our own experiences in life. From my decade of research into this matter, I feel that, by now, there isn't a whole lot of time left to get prepared for all that this event will create.

  • Dorothy 3 years ago

    By the way: the government's term and use of cyber threat/attack does NOT have to refer to anything human/manmade -- although they probably want us to assume that it is referring to humans as the source of such an incident. The governments not being ignorant of all things coming at us, the coming solar storm's destruction of the electronic/energy grid systems is considered by them to be a very real "cyber attack" -- which FOR NOW the governments of the world view as a very "real threat", hence all their preparations being made to protect it, if only for their own "official emergency use". This should be a warning for all people to do likewise - "prepare - if only for your own benefit"!

  • Mike Knows 3 years ago

    They are not telling you the whole story. The only thing that can trigger such an event would be another object coming in from space that will enter the solar system and pass near the sun. The sun will react by sending out a coronal mass ejection towards the other object. This is no different than a spark gap arcing across a gap when the gaps get too close together. Don't expect to survive. Such an event will give off a light so bright that just looking at it will kill you instantly as it passes through your optic nerve directly to your brain. I should also mention that it would also burn the whole planet and rearrange and scramble all the DNA of every living organism on the planet. It doesn't matter how deep you dig either, the tachyon radiation will penetrate all the way to the earths core and heat it up. If such an event is coming then we are already dead and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Time to wake up people.

  • Mike Knows 3 years ago

    The sun is not a nuclear fusion reactor. It is a ball of acoustically compressed gas and dust. It is plasma and no different than a light bulb. It is not on fire at all. It is no different than the auroras you see on earth. The sun is an electric light bulb. When other massive objects come near it it will send out an arc just like a spark plug does when it fires an arc across the gap.
    Mainstream science is a controlled lie to keep people and scientists extremely dumb to keep you from realizing the way the universe really works... because If we knew the truth we would all have the free energy technology by now.
    If the sun was really a nuclear fusion reactor..it would have burnt out a long time ago. I have never seen so many brainwashed scientists as the ones we have today on this planet. They are completely ridiculous and their theories are complete nonsense.

  • Mike Knows 3 years ago

    In case you were all wondering when this will all happen... Sept 6, 2012 at 7:46 am PST.
    I cannot reveal my sources.
    There is no need to prepare. You will not survive it anyway.

  • Devin 3 years ago

    Mike, it would appear then that they are and have been tracking this planetary object. Dwarf star, nibiru come to mind. Will it be visible prior? Thanks

  • Mike Knows 3 years ago

    You can see it now from the southern hemisphere if you have an infrared telescope. Look between the lowest of the 3 stars of Orion and Sirius. At the moment you can see the brown dwarf star and 7 of it's planets.. but there are also 10 moons that you can't see yet. There are 18 objects incoming in total and one of them will be deflected by the planet Uranus and hit the earth.

  • Dusty 2 years ago

    "If such an event is coming then we are already dead and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Time to wake up people."

    But Mike, you say earlier that such an event IS coming, on September 6, 2012, at 7:46 PT. So why the equivocation?

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