The Truth About The Power Grid Outage Risk in America

Patrick Bet-David has quickly become one of the most trusted sources of news (beyond yours truly of course).

But truth is, we often work closely together.

And that’s what I’m doing today.

I just came across this 11 minute video from Patrick (shout out to Mark, thanks for sending to me) and I thought it was so good I wanted to share it with you.

Not a lot of people are talking about this, but it has been high up on my radar for a long time.

So glad to see Patrick talking about it, because he breaks it down in a way that’s so easy to understand.

So please take a moment to watch this:

FULL TRANSCRIPT for everyone who always asks for one:

by the way before Co did you ever think that you and I were going to go through an epidemic or pandemic where we’re going to be told that you know we’re going to shut down everything you’re

going to be working from home you better quarantine put the mask on have gloves on when you’re going out there don’t touch this don’t do that kid stay home did you think that like did that thought

even cross your mind when 2019 was going into 2020 and you’re preparing in December did you say honey we better be ready for a potential pandemic to happen we did not think about it and then all of a sudden boom we were hit with it

right you know it’s so one thing no one’s talking about that is very likely that could happen a power outage so imagine powered outage happens No Light No fridge food is no longer good no phone charger phone is done no internet what happens to your life FYI come on Pat that would never happen to us well

let me give you our score on how good we’re doing with power Energy System the American Society of civil engineers which gave the US Energy System a c minus on great on its 2021 infrastructure report car said that the grid investment Trends will eventually lead to a funding gap of almost $200 billion in 2029 and also in 2021 threat

assessment from the office of the Director of National Intelligence stated that Russia China Iran and North Korea have the capability to cause harm to the

energy grid What also at the same time the Energy Secretary Jennifer granholm confirmed that America’s adversaries possess the capability to shut down the grit what we’re going to talk about that today so look I’ve been in the financial

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interruptions annually remained consistently at around 2 hours per year from 2013 to 2021 we’re lucky if you look at these charts here this right here shows us the blue is with major events the navy blue is without major events of course 2017 2020 2021 maybe weather maybe additional things that

happen we experiened a little bit but around 2 hours per year on average now here’s the bad news the bad news is much of the US electric grid was built in the 60s and the 7s we’re talking 70 years ago is when it was built currently over 70% of the US electricity grid is more than 25 years old according to the White House so we’ve updated almost everything yeah

let’s upgrade this upgrade that our electricity grid 70% of it hasn’t been updated for more than 25 years what really maybe it’s something no president’s looking at right they’re like well it’s not really a threat we shouldn’t look at this here now you may say come on Pat of course the government’s going to be paying

attention to this kind of stuff because this is on us this is not free market we don’t do this right now somebody else could maybe figure it out this is the government’s responsibility and us taxpayers we’ll pay our taxes yeah I think they kind of know what they’re doing in DC Pennsylvania right I mean they they’re they’re smart people we elected them watch this on October 18th 2023 Biden Harrison Administration

announced $3.5 billion for largest ever investment in America’s electric grid you know what the budget was the deficit was at that time $1.7 trillion what is $35 billion not a lot so now where is our vulnerability like where are some areas we should be worried about number one extreme weather abnormal heat or cold tornadoes hurricanes flood or storms major power outages from weather related events in the US increased by 67% since 2000 number two cyber security

the 2020 Homeland threat assessment from the Department of Homeland Security stated that China has the capability and possible intent to compromise the energy grid what would that look like would China want to do that if they did wouldn’t they probably blame somebody else like they did with covid when it came out from Wuhan and they said no it probably came from some kind of a you know other place but it’s not us it’s somebody else you think China would take responsibility for it of course not they haven’t for a recent one you think

they’re going to for this number three is EMP an electromagnetic pulse also referred to as a transient electromagnetic disturbance Ted is a brief burst of electromagnetic energy the origin of EMP can be natural or artificial and can occur as an electromagnetic field there are two potential sources for an EMP the deliberate detonation of a nuclear device in the atmosphere above the Earth or a massive solar flare the concept consquences of either could range from a few days without power to lifechanging number four is actual physical attacks

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