The Blackout of August 14, 2003
It all started as a normal humid and hot summer day. Before it was over, the entire Northeast including a large portion of Canada was without power. Ironically, In fact, most of the East and Midwest was operating only at about 75 percent of capacity and in past
The power grid is so vulnerable I am amazed it hasn't been hit by
terrorists already. Back in January 1998 we had four days of freezing
rain in eastern Ontario and upstate NY. Only 4 days of freezing rain
and the weight of the ice began to topple the big high tension line
towers. We often get
Hey Joe
First thing I thought
of after reading your story about the power grid being hit by bad guys
is dont
give them any ideas. Then I had another nave thought (maybe inane
would be a
better word), what do these terrorists want from us? Lets find out and
give it
to them! But then I came to
Hi Brian;
Hey Joe
First thing I thought
of after reading your story about the power grid being hit by bad guys
is dont
give them any ideas.
Yeah I went through those thoughts myself in October 2001 when all the
radio stations were asking callers to chime in on how we should protect
All i have heard, they have said it many times.. that they want us to
leave them alone to get out of their lands Our way of life
offends them...
is that so hard??
Ray J
what do these terrorists want from us? Let’s find out and give it to
them! But then I came to my senses and
very hard when they have something we want.
Ray J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All i have heard, they have said it many times.. that they want us to leave them alone to get out of their lands Our way of life offends them...is that so hard??Ray J what do these terrorists want from us? Lets
very hard when they have something we want.
Not if you can get rid of the want. That's what a real energy policy
would accomplish.
None of this is a result of an addiction. It's a matter of choice -
politically and economically expedient choice. Just that it's turned out
to also be
The thing about waging war is that the civilians who die, have families who don't forget. It will take at least a generation of healing before a terrorist campaign of our doing is able to subside.
When I say "of our doing", I mean the things our government did and didn't do, to both extend a
The people of other countries i.e. non-Western, have a much longer
memory than we do in the West. Think about the Bible, transmitted
through oral tradition from generation to generation for thousands of
years. Here in (civilized) countries, advertisers, bombarding us with
conflicting messages,
Bush may be leading us over the cliff, but there is where the buck
stops, I am certainly not a lemming. I'm getting off the train before
the crash.
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very hard when they have something we want.
Not if you can get rid of the want. That's what a real energy policy
: [Biofuel] blackout
8-14-2003, some comments
Hi Brian;
Hey JoeFirst
thing I thought of after reading your story about the power grid being hit
by bad guys is dont give them any ideas. Yeah I went
through those thoughts myself in October 2001 when all the radio
stations were
Alrighty Joe
Very good response.
In
the back of my mind I had the notion that
by researching biofuels and perhaps implementing some sort of
alternative fuel
strategy I would be putting my family into a group of people that do
not want
to invade countries for their energy and thus making me
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