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🚨🇺🇸 Why Bombing Iran's Power Grid Will Fail — According to a 1994 US Air Force Report Attacking an enemy's power grid fails to stop their military because armed forces use almost no national electricity, get priority access to what remains, and run on backup diesel generators with weeks...

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❄️Winter is Coming 2025❄️ - Energize the Frontline⚡️ Donate here (tax-deductible in 🇺🇸): ⚡️A Great Generator Deal⚡️ Against all odds, the defenders of Ukraine keep holding the line to the best of their abilities. Unit and command posts must be run, drone batteries recharged, surveillance equipment operated, and, in a sense, the war is considerably electric. This is why we decided to dedicate a fundraiser to the supply of frontline units with diesel and petrol generators. We just bought over 30 more generators, and we plan to buy over 100 (!) more. As we buy in bulk and VAT-free, we were able to negotiate a very good deal: - 3000W Inverter Generators (for sensitive electronics): 190$ / piece - 5000W Diesel Generators: 750$ / piece 🔌Current Energy Situation🔌 In October 2022, Russia began with its aerial assaults on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure - electrical and thermal power plants, electrical substations, gas distribution hubs - to deprive civilians and the military of energy during the cold winter months. Russia’s perfidious strategy, a war crime beyond any doubt, aims to break morale and weaken resilience, but also incapacitate as much of Ukraine’s economy, its industry and rail services as possible. Russia’s ultimate goal remains to force Ukraine to surrender. With allied equipment support, grid synchronisation and decentralisation efforts, fatal crises were avoided three winters in a row, without nationwide blackouts, without load-shedding, also helped by a milder than expected climate. UAO responded swiftly each winter season, supplying front line units with diesel and petrol generators, as well as power stations and power banks, purchased from your generous donations. In recent weeks, however, Russia has substantially ramped up its strikes on the energy infrastructure across the whole of Ukraine, helped by increased production of strike drones and ballistic and cruise missiles, after its summer offensive failed to gain traction. Ukraine’s largest electrical and thermal power plant operator DTEK reported three assaults so far in October alone, while Naftogaz claims that already 60% of the nation’s gas production and distribution capacity is destroyed, and Ukrzaliznytsia saw nearly 300 attacks on railway infrastructure, causing many delays and cancellations. With your help, we can secure energy supply on the frontline💪
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❄️Winter is Coming 2025❄️ - Energize the Frontline⚡️ Donate here (tax-deductible in 🇺🇸): ⚡️A Great Generator Deal⚡️ Against all odds, the defenders of Ukraine keep holding the line to the best of their abilities. Unit and command posts must be run, drone batteries recharged, surveillance equipment operated, and, in a sense, the war is considerably electric. This is why we decided to dedicate a fundraiser to the supply of frontline units with diesel and petrol generators. We just bought over 30 more generators, and we plan to buy over 100 (!) more. As we buy in bulk and VAT-free, we were able to negotiate a very good deal: - 3000W Inverter Generators (for sensitive electronics): 190$ / piece - 5000W Diesel Generators: 750$ / piece 🔌Current Energy Situation🔌 In October 2022, Russia began with its aerial assaults on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure - electrical and thermal power plants, electrical substations, gas distribution hubs - to deprive civilians and the military of energy during the cold winter months. Russia’s perfidious strategy, a war crime beyond any doubt, aims to break morale and weaken resilience, but also incapacitate as much of Ukraine’s economy, its industry and rail services as possible. Russia’s ultimate goal remains to force Ukraine to surrender. With allied equipment support, grid synchronisation and decentralisation efforts, fatal crises were avoided three winters in a row, without nationwide blackouts, without load-shedding, also helped by a milder than expected climate. UAO responded swiftly each winter season, supplying front line units with diesel and petrol generators, as well as power stations and power banks, purchased from your generous donations. In recent weeks, however, Russia has substantially ramped up its strikes on the energy infrastructure across the whole of Ukraine, helped by increased production of strike drones and ballistic and cruise missiles, after its summer offensive failed to gain traction. Ukraine’s largest electrical and thermal power plant operator DTEK reported three assaults so far in October alone, while Naftogaz claims that already 60% of the nation’s gas production and distribution capacity is destroyed, and Ukrzaliznytsia saw nearly 300 attacks on railway infrastructure, causing many delays and cancellations. With your help, we can secure energy supply on the frontline💪

Ukraine Aid Operations 🇺🇦

28,552 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten

🚨 HOLY SH*T! IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE: A BURIED CIA VIDEO JUST SURFACED… AND ERIKA KIRK IS IN IT A 10-year-old documentary about EMP attacks and U.S. power grid vulnerability has quietly surfaced - and buried inside it is Erika Kirk. She’s not observing. She’s not a host. She’s in a role most civilians never get near, briefing national security professionals alongside a former CIA National Security & Energy Specialist on how an EMP or coordinated physical attack could collapse the U.S. power grid. This isn’t casual footage. It’s technical. It’s inside-baseball. And it’s the exact kind of material most people never get near, let alone present. Which raises some very uncomfortable questions: Why was she in that role? What qualified her to brief on national security threats? Who brought her into that room, and why is none of it explained? Back then, this clip passed quietly. Today, with everything surrounding her, it hits very differently. At what point do “coincidences” stop being coincidences?
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🚨 HOLY SH*T! IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE: A BURIED CIA VIDEO JUST SURFACED… AND ERIKA KIRK IS IN IT A 10-year-old documentary about EMP attacks and U.S. power grid vulnerability has quietly surfaced - and buried inside it is Erika Kirk. She’s not observing. She’s not a host. She’s in a role most civilians never get near, briefing national security professionals alongside a former CIA National Security & Energy Specialist on how an EMP or coordinated physical attack could collapse the U.S. power grid. This isn’t casual footage. It’s technical. It’s inside-baseball. And it’s the exact kind of material most people never get near, let alone present. Which raises some very uncomfortable questions: Why was she in that role? What qualified her to brief on national security threats? Who brought her into that room, and why is none of it explained? Back then, this clip passed quietly. Today, with everything surrounding her, it hits very differently. At what point do “coincidences” stop being coincidences?

HustleBitch

4,714,934 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

Europe's official grid authority has released its report on the nationwide blackout that hit Spain last year. And while the report treads carefully politically, its data make the cause clear. Wind and solar triggered the collapse. Within the first 80 seconds, Spain lost 2.5 GW of generation, around 10% of its national supply, with every MW of that early loss coming from renewables. Gas and hydro remained stable until the cascade was already underway. The report calls it an unprecedented speed of blackout. This was a textbook inverter chain failure, with renewables dropping so fast that the grid's stabilizers never had time to react. By midday, Spain's grid had virtually no inertia, nothing spinning fast enough to hold frequency steady. But to admit that outright would mean questioning Europe's green transition itself, something the report appears unable to do. So the event is officially described as "a rare local disturbance," rather than what it actually was... A systemic failure of weather-dependent power.
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Europe's official grid authority has released its report on the nationwide blackout that hit Spain last year. And while the report treads carefully politically, its data make the cause clear. Wind and solar triggered the collapse. Within the first 80 seconds, Spain lost 2.5 GW of generation, around 10% of its national supply, with every MW of that early loss coming from renewables. Gas and hydro remained stable until the cascade was already underway. The report calls it an unprecedented speed of blackout. This was a textbook inverter chain failure, with renewables dropping so fast that the grid's stabilizers never had time to react. By midday, Spain's grid had virtually no inertia, nothing spinning fast enough to hold frequency steady. But to admit that outright would mean questioning Europe's green transition itself, something the report appears unable to do. So the event is officially described as "a rare local disturbance," rather than what it actually was... A systemic failure of weather-dependent power.

Electroverse

617,626 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

Renewable energy had nothing to do with Spain’s catastrophic blackouts, its Prime Minister says, insisting instead that the real culprit was a rare technical failure unrelated to the country’s green energy transition. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez went further and reiterated his government’s opposition to nuclear energy, which he called “far from being a solution.” But, as I pointed out on Monday, the underlying cause of the blackout was the lack of “inertia,” the physical buffer provided by traditional power plants that use heavy spinning machinery to stabilize the grid during sudden fluctuations. Our electrical systems are based on power plants that rotate massive metal shafts at thousands of revolutions per minute, creating electricity while also providing momentum. That rotational mass acts like a shock absorber, automatically resisting sharp swings in supply and demand. When a fault or sudden drop hits the system, that inertia buys precious seconds for control systems to respond and for operators to isolate the problem. In contrast, solar panels and most modern wind turbines rely on inverters, which lack physical mass and can’t cushion these shocks. It’s true that the electrical grid managers have not identified a specific cause that triggered the blackout, and both Spain’s Red Eléctrica and Portugal’s REN have cautioned that a full root-cause analysis may take weeks. Preliminary reports describe a “very strong oscillation” in the network and suggest the event began with an unexpected disturbance, possibly linked to a sudden drop in generation or an equipment fault. But that doesn’t change the fact that the Spanish grid lacks inertia, and that if it had had more inertia in the system the blackout could have been avoided or at least contained. Inertia is not a theoretical nicety, it’s a physical property provided by heavy, spinning generators like those in gas, coal, and nuclear plants, which naturally resist sudden changes in frequency. On the day of the blackout, nearly 80 percent of Spain’s electricity came from inverter-based solar and wind sources, which provide no such stabilizing force. With so few conventional plants online, the grid had virtually no buffer to absorb even a minor shock. When the disturbance hit, the frequency plunged and the system unraveled within seconds. Unlike older grids built around rotating mass, Spain’s modern, ultra-light grid simply had no way to withstand the sudden imbalance. And Spain’s electrical grid operator admitted on a conference call yesterday that it was a “massive” loss of renewable energy generation that triggered the blackout and said that it was “very likely” the initial disturbance came from solar... Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning journalism, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!
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Renewable energy had nothing to do with Spain’s catastrophic blackouts, its Prime Minister says, insisting instead that the real culprit was a rare technical failure unrelated to the country’s green energy transition. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez went further and reiterated his government’s opposition to nuclear energy, which he called “far from being a solution.” But, as I pointed out on Monday, the underlying cause of the blackout was the lack of “inertia,” the physical buffer provided by traditional power plants that use heavy spinning machinery to stabilize the grid during sudden fluctuations. Our electrical systems are based on power plants that rotate massive metal shafts at thousands of revolutions per minute, creating electricity while also providing momentum. That rotational mass acts like a shock absorber, automatically resisting sharp swings in supply and demand. When a fault or sudden drop hits the system, that inertia buys precious seconds for control systems to respond and for operators to isolate the problem. In contrast, solar panels and most modern wind turbines rely on inverters, which lack physical mass and can’t cushion these shocks. It’s true that the electrical grid managers have not identified a specific cause that triggered the blackout, and both Spain’s Red Eléctrica and Portugal’s REN have cautioned that a full root-cause analysis may take weeks. Preliminary reports describe a “very strong oscillation” in the network and suggest the event began with an unexpected disturbance, possibly linked to a sudden drop in generation or an equipment fault. But that doesn’t change the fact that the Spanish grid lacks inertia, and that if it had had more inertia in the system the blackout could have been avoided or at least contained. Inertia is not a theoretical nicety, it’s a physical property provided by heavy, spinning generators like those in gas, coal, and nuclear plants, which naturally resist sudden changes in frequency. On the day of the blackout, nearly 80 percent of Spain’s electricity came from inverter-based solar and wind sources, which provide no such stabilizing force. With so few conventional plants online, the grid had virtually no buffer to absorb even a minor shock. When the disturbance hit, the frequency plunged and the system unraveled within seconds. Unlike older grids built around rotating mass, Spain’s modern, ultra-light grid simply had no way to withstand the sudden imbalance. And Spain’s electrical grid operator admitted on a conference call yesterday that it was a “massive” loss of renewable energy generation that triggered the blackout and said that it was “very likely” the initial disturbance came from solar... Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning journalism, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!

Michael Shellenberger

81,437 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

A disaster unfolding for the U.S.? The world may be edging closer to another major war The U.S. has carried out strikes on Iran for the ninth consecutive night. According to Iranian officials, American forces targeted a nuclear facility. Iran has responded with attacks on U.S. military bases across the region. Kuwait's power grid may have suffered significant damage, with mobile generators reportedly deployed to supply electricity to residential areas following widespread outages. Bahrain has also been put on alert after U.S. intelligence warned of possible terrorist attacks. Behind the scenes, however, Washington is facing growing constraints. The Pentagon is reinforcing its air presence in the region and is once again preparing for the possibility of a ground campaign. But stocks of air-defense interceptors and long-range precision munitions are reportedly dwindling, while moving additional reinforcements into the region is becoming increasingly difficult. Meanwhile, Polymarket currently puts the odds of a U.S. invasion of Iran before 2027 at 25%—up from earlier levels, but still well short of suggesting markets expect a full-scale ground invasion.
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A disaster unfolding for the U.S.? The world may be edging closer to another major war The U.S. has carried out strikes on Iran for the ninth consecutive night. According to Iranian officials, American forces targeted a nuclear facility. Iran has responded with attacks on U.S. military bases across the region. Kuwait's power grid may have suffered significant damage, with mobile generators reportedly deployed to supply electricity to residential areas following widespread outages. Bahrain has also been put on alert after U.S. intelligence warned of possible terrorist attacks. Behind the scenes, however, Washington is facing growing constraints. The Pentagon is reinforcing its air presence in the region and is once again preparing for the possibility of a ground campaign. But stocks of air-defense interceptors and long-range precision munitions are reportedly dwindling, while moving additional reinforcements into the region is becoming increasingly difficult. Meanwhile, Polymarket currently puts the odds of a U.S. invasion of Iran before 2027 at 25%—up from earlier levels, but still well short of suggesting markets expect a full-scale ground invasion.

NEXTA

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‼️🇮🇷Why Iran cannot launch a direct air attack on Israel ✈️🌍 Iran faces major military and geographic limits that block a direct air strike on Israel. The distance is long and Iranian fighter jets cannot reach Israel without multiple mid air refueling points. Iran also has no safe air corridor. Any aircraft would have to cross hostile airspace controlled by US allies and regional rivals, making detection almost certain. Israel’s air defense network is one of the strongest in the world. Systems like Arrow, David’s Sling, and Iron Dome are supported by US radar and intelligence. Any incoming aircraft would be tracked early and intercepted long before reaching targets. Iran’s air force itself is outdated. Many jets are old and lack stealth, modern avionics, and electronic warfare capability. Against Israel’s advanced fighters and air defenses, losses would be extremely high. This is why Iran relies on missiles, drones, and proxy forces instead of direct air attacks.
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‼️🇮🇷Why Iran cannot launch a direct air attack on Israel ✈️🌍 Iran faces major military and geographic limits that block a direct air strike on Israel. The distance is long and Iranian fighter jets cannot reach Israel without multiple mid air refueling points. Iran also has no safe air corridor. Any aircraft would have to cross hostile airspace controlled by US allies and regional rivals, making detection almost certain. Israel’s air defense network is one of the strongest in the world. Systems like Arrow, David’s Sling, and Iron Dome are supported by US radar and intelligence. Any incoming aircraft would be tracked early and intercepted long before reaching targets. Iran’s air force itself is outdated. Many jets are old and lack stealth, modern avionics, and electronic warfare capability. Against Israel’s advanced fighters and air defenses, losses would be extremely high. This is why Iran relies on missiles, drones, and proxy forces instead of direct air attacks.

Defense Intelligence

472,105 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

⚡️Speech HIGHLIGHTS of Hamas military spox Abu Obeida: • It has been 70 days since the beginning of the Battle of Al-Aqsa flood, and our people continue to wage this unprecedented battle. • Our fighters are confronting a force heavily armed with weapons, equipment, and lethal ammunition, supported by their aircraft. • The US administration is facilitating its air bridges to support this entity as if it were fighting a major power. • In the last 5 days, our fighters have managed to target more than 100 israeli military vehicles. • Our fighters used anti-fortification explosives to demolish buildings over the heads of israeli soldiers. • The enemy is employing mercenaries in its aclaimed existential war. • We are the people who remain on our land, and they are those who will depart, God willing. This enemy only understands the language of force • The enemy's war is based on lies and forgery, and the truth will inevitably emerge • The enemy is attacking with technology, not with its soldiers, and they are fleeing from our forces. • We still have our hands on the trigger and are lurking for the enemy everywhere. • We revealed how weak and cowardly their army is. • What the enemy army officially announces regarding the numbers of deaths and injuries is not true & inaccurate. • The duty now is to rise up, and boycott the occupation with all forms of resistance
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⚡️Speech HIGHLIGHTS of Hamas military spox Abu Obeida: • It has been 70 days since the beginning of the Battle of Al-Aqsa flood, and our people continue to wage this unprecedented battle. • Our fighters are confronting a force heavily armed with weapons, equipment, and lethal ammunition, supported by their aircraft. • The US administration is facilitating its air bridges to support this entity as if it were fighting a major power. • In the last 5 days, our fighters have managed to target more than 100 israeli military vehicles. • Our fighters used anti-fortification explosives to demolish buildings over the heads of israeli soldiers. • The enemy is employing mercenaries in its aclaimed existential war. • We are the people who remain on our land, and they are those who will depart, God willing. This enemy only understands the language of force • The enemy's war is based on lies and forgery, and the truth will inevitably emerge • The enemy is attacking with technology, not with its soldiers, and they are fleeing from our forces. • We still have our hands on the trigger and are lurking for the enemy everywhere. • We revealed how weak and cowardly their army is. • What the enemy army officially announces regarding the numbers of deaths and injuries is not true & inaccurate. • The duty now is to rise up, and boycott the occupation with all forms of resistance

Arya Yadeghaar

727,920 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren