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Speaker 0: Five major threats make the grid extremely vulnerable: cyber, hackers, physical threats, solar EMP, and man-made EMP. The concern is that when they hear the risk analysis, officials may hear it but won’t take action.
Speaker 1: There are 18 critical infrastructures in the United States (food, water, transportation, communications, etc.). All 17 of the others depend on electricity.
Speaker 2: If our grid goes down, you can't cook, you can't heat anything, you can't run medical supplies, you can't talk on your phone, you can't take money out of a bank, and we turn into total chaos.
Speaker 3: If this happens, the system stops. Stops.
Speaker 2: If a transformer is taken down, we have to order it from Germany or China. It's going to take a year.
Speaker 1: Up till recently, there were no comprehensive protective solutions available.
Speaker 4: We know what the solutions are. They're not expensive. They're not difficult to employ. We just need the political will to do it and the follow through on the part of the electric utilities to get it done.
Speaker 3: The White House is protected from an EMP. The congress and the CIA and the NSA, all of the areas that need to function at the government are protected. So why can't we be protected?
Speaker 1: Around some of these facilities, you don't have much more than a chain link fence to keep people out. That seems absurd to me.
Speaker 5: I think it is absurd when we now know that attack on as few as nine grid substations could bring down all three major interconnections for The United States grid.
Speaker 3: If the power goes out, you get the generator. And if that goes out, you get another one. There's never been a plan for what happens after that.
Speaker 1: Director of the National Security Agency, Admiral Rogers, came out and said, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.