Blacking out America would be a cinch, because there’s not enough distributed solar

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By John UptonMar 14, 2014, 5:23 pm74 pts
Crippling America’s old-fashioned electrical grid for a long period of time would be disturbingly easy. Saboteurs need only wait for a heat wave, and then knock out a factory plus a small number of the 55,000 electric-transmission substations that are scattered throughout the country. That’s according to…

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