Trump just Federalized the Grid Today

WELL TRUMP DID SAY INFRASTRUCTURE WAS NEXT.

NOW HE'S DOING IT.

WE'RE GOING BACK TO MADE IN AMERICA INDUSTRIAL AGE (WITH THE MODERN DIFFERENCES) AGAIN!

I FOR ONE WELCOME IT. I WANT TO SEE CHEMICAL FACTORIES MAKING OUR SUPPLEMENTS, MEDICINES, RAW MATERIALS, MADE IN AMERICA.

AS WELL AS ALL THE OTHER INDUSTRY WE SHOVED OVER INTO OTHER COUNTRIES SO CEO''S COULD SAVE A BUCK.

California October 2017 fire area signs of attack by ??? with ???

The after effects of a broad outage would be closer to NYC in 2004 or the Bahamas during Hurricane Dorian. No power anywhere vs. a normal storm that leaves some areas still in lights.

No power=no gasoline, no credit/debit card transactions, sometimes no water. Our society would begin to crumble in days not weeks.

(b) The term “bulk-power system electric equipment” means items used in bulk-power system substations, control rooms, or power generating stations, including reactors, capacitors, substation transformers, current coupling capacitors, large generators, backup generators, substation voltage regulators, shunt capacitor equipment, automatic circuit reclosers, instrument transformers, coupling capacity voltage transformers, protective relaying, metering equipment, high voltage circuit breakers, generation turbines, industrial control systems, distributed control systems, and safety instrumented systems. Items not included in the preceding list and that have broader application of use beyond the bulk-power system are outside the scope of this order.

I work in the power generation industry. Most power plants are controlled by Windows 7 desktop computers, linked to Allen Bradley PLCs which actually do the direct controlling of the generation unit.

Is there such a thing as a desktop PC made in the USA? I don't think the PLCs are made in the USA either, actually I'm sure they aren't.

How the hell am I supposed to go about rectifying this situation? It could cost millions of dollars to convert the PLC logic to an American made PLC, of which I don't even know of one that exists.

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Trump is a punk ass bitch.

How is an EO protecting the grid? It's the same grid before the EO and the same grid after the EO. Something in writing doesn't mitigate physical hardware.

If true, China fucked the world and the world knows it. But we already know that. Chinese owned media wants to blame Orange Man. I wonder who holds shares in American Media Conglomerates....

I get the sense the electrical grid may be vulnerable, especially in the coming weeks/months as this covert war between factions and world events intensifies. I feel this is a positive thing to make the grid more secure.

How the fuck is it going to do that? All the computer components that control the grid were made in China.

You're telling me that with a stroke of a pen, Trump just required the entire grid to throw out their computers and PLCs and replace them with domestically made hardware, which even if it FUCKING EXISTED, would cost a trillion dollars to replace????

A tree fell, late on a Thursday night during a storm. Wiped out the power, tore the mast off the house. We called BCHydro using the battery power from a now defunct car to cut the power. The local electricians showed up Friday afternoon, stayed until 8pm fixed everything, signed off on it, then BCHydro showed up about midnight and checked everything and the power was back on. Three cheers for you and your friends everywhere!

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We can only hope.

Exactly. He just resurrected an entire industry. Trump, The Resurrector!

No, he actually started out in Cleveland manufacturing and selling wooden barrels that were probably used for kerosene and/or flour.

Notice how after Trump went to India recently, suddenly India allowed Amazon and Apple to operate in their country (literally a couple days later). There is definitely an alliance happening.

They just spent 6.2 right? Has anyone here looked into that to see exactly where that money went? I don’t know where it all went but I’m not going to pretend that if they had suspicions of the grid being at risk and had to put a plan together to fix it that they wouldn’t slide some of that money to companies who would be able mass produce whatever is needed. (BEFORE he signed the E.O.)

Huawei

No doubt in my mind. Wish I knew where to invest my money with our new alliance.

That's some very pointed and tough language in that E.O.!

Nothing is that. What it does is give the feds enough
'authority' to stop using foreign equipment or parts
to fix or update or otherwise install on the grid because---
every foreign country that makes parts for electrical
equipment is an "untrustworthy source".

He's protecting us. Why do you always have to 'push fear'
over issues that have TWO SIDES??!!

If you have not noticed, U.S. manufacturing is not done
here anymore, it's produced outside our own country.

Would you trust foreign labor and equipment including parts
to our grid?????

Because it seems to me the 'new normal' is STOP TRUSTING
FOREIGNERS.

We saw what CHI-NAH did to us with medical supplies.

I think it's a start to stop our country from being
exploited through cheap labor with enemies.

BUT---take the "glass is half empty" on issues. You'll
ruin your sleep cycle for nothing.

The President is not the problem. Foreign investment
into production from greedy corporations is tho'...

STFU blowhard.

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Information Technology expert here. Jake is right. The microchips can be manufactured in a way to allow back doors and vulnerabilities inside the hardware its self.

Software vulnerabilities are easy to patch, hardware vulnerabilities are very hard to get rid of.

Go read up on meltd0wn and sp3cter.

Translation, no more transformers and control systems from China.
We USED to make that stuff in America, before Democrat Environazi’s made them too expensive.

Isn't it past time to do this with TV, radio, magazines, and newspaper media moguls?

Probably expecting the power grid to be hacked and shut down remotely by China, any day now.

No EMP worries, as the grid is being replaced with all-new equipment.

Yeah that amazed us. My wife had a couple weeks before been working to get her book published and distributed in India. And was lamenting that Amazon wasnt there.

Then suddenly Amazon opened in India. It was definitely like a miracle.

Thanks Mr President !

Yup. This is so good.

does this protect us from an EMP because that is the real deal protection otherwise its no protection AT ALL