The Obama administration, through their directives to EPA, have been forcing coal and oil fired electric generation plants off line for the last 4 years. According to the reports I have seen (and here), coal-fired electric generation has been reduced from 64% to 42% of the country’s electric generation capacity since Obama was elected. While these regulatory changes are claimed to be for the purpose of “driving investment in green energy”, the actual result has been substantially increased dependence upon nuclear-generated electricity, as “renewable sources” account for only 5% of generation capacity today, up only 2% from 2007, when “renewables” produced just 3% of electric power.
So what if an event happened which forced the US to take many or all of the nuclear generation facilities into shutdown? Widespread blackouts.
How vulnerable is the US to disruption of electric power generation and transmission? Profoundly vulnerable. Dozens of incidents happen each week which *could* precipitate a grid-fault, which would force generating stations off-line, cascading the failure across a wide area as we witnessed with the New York City blackout a decade ago.
Such a major blackout will impact public communications, as well, so it will culminate in a multi-mode infrastructure failure event which will affect many millions when it occurs, and it is only a matter of time.
You know what you need to do – prepare for this eventuality.
WE HAVE BEEN WARNED
LT
~Those who abuse Liberty, sentence themselves to Death!
Long term, I would expect scheduled black outs since “renewable energy” wouldn’t be able to meet the demand we’re used to. Welcome to the third world!