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"It wouldn't surprise me if those Chinese transformers had a back door that could be turned off. We don’t even check them. That is super dangerous, and there are a lot of other vulnerabilities that we haven't even thought about." Vulnerabilities of the Grid with Erik Bethel.

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Cracker Jack1 year ago

At this point, it would take a quantum computer to count how many Chinese Trojan horses are in the U.S.

IvanV11 year ago

The real, viable risk to the Electric Industry (Power Companies) is that we have not built a new Nuclear nor Coal (yeah, they’re still a thing) plant in over 40 years and there are no plans to build new. The current transformers are rebuilt by each company. Utility companies have rather robust systems to prevent infiltration.

shankapodymus1 year ago

I have a question; he is all in on the "climate change" but didn't even pause when he was explaining that China makes most of the "green" energy equip with power that comes from coal. If China has all of that "green" tech, why build coal plants?

🇺🇸MAGAnonduality1 year ago

“Green energy” is not “green”. It is not environmentally friendly. This is a lie. It takes tremendous amounts of diesel just to mine and refine copper. For the entire U.K., as an example, you would have to triple the yearly output of the world’s copper just for every car to be electric. THIS is the whole point of the scam. And that’s only one resource of the many minerals you need for green energy that ends up being disposable.(🙄 fuck why are people so dumb) China owns the majority of Earths minerals BY ALOT, especially refined rare earths used in green tech. “Green energy” is a balance of power scam. China doesn’t rely on this 💩 but the rest of the world is supposed to. (Fuck why are people so uninformed 😆) China is furiously building nuclear power plants. We need to do the same. But natural gas is the most readily efficient and clean outside of nuclear despite what you’re told. Start here:

deanorogers1 year ago

"Ghost Fleet" kind of stuff. No way we should be buying anything from the Chinese that has the even a remote possibility of doing any kind of harm to us.

Preston1 year ago

bro, this was an issue 20 years ago. People started sounding the alarm in the 2000s. Nobody took it seriously, and now we're stuck dealing with it.

k42d1 year ago

There are an infinite ways disruptions could occur. We keep creating this state of fear within ourselves, but things are going well! Manufacture products domestically and those risks will fade. Hope we can focus our energy on a positive future and less on fear of everything.

ideapete1 year ago

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daofuq.eth1 year ago

Erik Bethel for fed chair! Such a great episode Shawn!

꧁𝙶𝙾𝙳 𝚆𝙸𝙽𝚂꧂1 year ago

Hey, will you put the release date on these clips? I keep seeing these and I can go to your YouTube and don’t find them and get disappointed. Haha 😆

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