By Peter Campion
The two major risks to the electricity grid
Everything that 26.5 million Australians rely on for their daily existence in turn relies on electricity as a dependable and continual service. Electricity is not a product. We can’t simply go to the shops, buy two days’ worth of electricity, tuck it under our arm, and head home. It’s a service that we’ve come to expect to be available at our homes and businesses at the precise moment we flick that switch. Our entire economy and society are structured around electricity being a service reliably delivered exactly when required.
When electricity supply is interrupted for a few seconds or minutes we are merely inconvenienced, but blackouts lasting several hours have a significant impact – particularly for the sick and the elderly who rely on electricity being available at all times to keep complex health issues stable. This is why hospitals and care homes have emergency generators.
Longer blackouts cause increasing problems, but few people take the time to consider the escalation of these issues over days or weeks. These problems vary in impact depending on the geographic location of those affected. Most Australians live in our major cities, and that’s where the impacts will be greatest. That’s why grid managers work hard to avoid blackouts affecting cities, particularly areas including high-rise towers which are totally dependent on reliable electricity for access and ventilation.
The blackouts most of us have experienced are almost always local distribution equipment failures or load-shedding, during which the main electricity grid and its phase-locked baseload generators, fuelled by hydrocarbons or by falling water, are still functioning normally and supplying electricity across most of the network. None of us have experienced a full blackout of the entire grid – called a “system black” event.
The closest to a system black event that modern Australia has experienced was the statewide blackout in South Australia in September 2016. Storms brought down a powerline, which caused other powerlines to trip out. That resulted in voltage dips which triggered protective equipment at inverter-based generators (wind farms) to isolate them and that in turn overloaded the interconnector to Victoria’s hydrocarbon-fuelled power plants. That crashed the grid for 1.7 million people.
Authorities rebooting the SA section of the east coast grid claimed they’d achieved a world first “black start”, but it wasn’t that at all as it was enabled by the return of stable, synchronous electricity from Victoria’s hydrocarbon-fuelled power plants. That allowed SA’s small gas turbine generators to rejoin the grid and eventually the asynchronous inverter-based generators (solar and wind) could be added back in. Solar and wind cannot achieve a black start as they can’t initiate the stable frequency required (50Hz) and can’t be dialed up as needed to keep demand and supply matched as consumer areas are reconnected.
What would our society look like over the course of the first week of a major system black event affecting the entire east coast grid? A system black event that was triggered by one of the two major risks listed later in this article could take months or years to rectify, but the first week will wreak the most havoc.
When the power goes down, properly maintained emergency generators will start automatically in many larger buildings and some private homes. However, their fuel supplies are finite and, in most cases, will be exhausted in less than 24 hours. Refills won’t be available as service stations don’t usually have emergency generators and so won’t be able to pump or sell fuel.
The battery back-ups on mobile phone towers and emergency lighting systems will run flat in 12 to 24 hours.
Streetlights and traffic signals are commonly grid-dependent and will cease operating at the commencement of the blackout. City streets will quickly become gridlocked, impairing residents’ ability to evacuate by car.
Telephone and internet networks’ batteries and emergency generators will stop working within 24 hours, making it impossible to request assistance from police, fire, and ambulance services. In the absence of street lighting and law enforcement, crime will skyrocket. Only well-trained, armed citizens will enjoy any personal safety.
Tap water won’t be available as city water reticulation relies on pumps. Drinking water will only be available as bottled water on hand as shops won’t be open. No piped water means no toilet flushing, and hygiene issues will emerge within 24 hours.
No rubbish collection will see waste accumulating on the streets by day two. The insect and rodent populations will flourish and contribute to health issues.
Refrigerated food will be spoiled by day two and food supplies will be limited to tinned or dried food on hand.
Health services can be expected to collapse on day two and hospitals will descend into chaos. Those reliant on prescription drugs will have only their on-hand stocks.
On day three, city residents will be desperate for water and urgently in need of food. Those who have not become victims of crime will be evacuating outwards from the city centre on foot, hoping to find water and food in the suburbs.
Things won’t be much better in the suburbs, except that residents with yards will at least be able to bury their waste and the roads won’t be as gridlocked. Suburban residents will also be without water, food, and communications, and by the end of day three, with desperate city residents flooding their neighbourhoods, they’ll be taking to their cars and fleeing into the rural areas.
Most city and suburban residents assume food can always be found in rural areas when in fact it is mostly stored in urban warehouses. Very few city or suburban residents have the skills or knowledge to find food in the bush. Food in farming areas will mainly exist as livestock or immature crops. Very few city or suburban residents have the tools, skills, or knowledge to kill, clean and prepare livestock for consumption – and taking livestock without consent will invite deadly responses from armed farmers.
By the fourth day of a grid-black event, the death toll from crime is likely to be hundreds of thousands. The death toll from thirst will be in the millions.
By the end of the first week of a system black event, disease will be rife due to the masses of dead lying rotting in the streets and the complete breakdown of healthcare. Those who survived the initial exodus from the cities and suburbs and who found a source of food and water will be at risk from disease spread by insects and rodents.
What can cause a system black event across the entire grid? There are two major risks. The first is government policy.
Our globalist-controlled corporate governments are hell-bent on eliminating our heavy-duty hydrocarbon-fuelled generators that can operate indefinitely with adequate fuel and maintenance. They’re rushing to replace them with light-duty wind- and solar-powered generators that only operate when it’s windy or sunny and which have comparatively short lifespans. We’re one or possibly two coal-fired power plant closures away from a system black that cannot be reversed except by isolating small areas in the vicinity of hydrocarbon-fuelled generators from the rest of the grid and only powering those. Even that option can only work while the fuel supplies last. Diesel fuels power coal-mining machinery and a system black will interrupt the diesel supply chain.
In a government-policy system black, we can expect Chinese troops in blue UN helmets to arrive in week two because this is what is being engineered by the globalists and their co-conspirators in our governments.
The second major threat to electricity as a continual service is large solar flares, which are inevitable in our electromagnetic universe.
Solar flares the size of the 1859 Carrington Event, an X50 flare, which burnt out the telegraph system of the time, occur every 150-200 years. 1859 was 164 years ago. We’re due an X50 flare at any time. An X50 or higher solar flare will energise Earth’s ionospheric and terrestrial electrical currents to the extent that every transformer and generator on the planet will overload and burn out. The return of electricity as a service would then be measured in generations, not years.
Larger flares occur on longer timescales. We don’t know when the larger events in the past occurred because our pre-industrial society wasn’t electrified, however, in the satellite era we can calculate when the next X100 to X1000 flare is due, and indications are that it will be between the late 2030s and the late 2040s.
No amount of planning and preparation can save an operating grid from X50-plus flares, but replacement equipment could be being stockpiled for the same money we’re squandering on wind and solar.
The primary responsibility of policymakers must be to ensure electricity remains a dependable and continual service to prevent a mass die-off of Australians. Our policymakers have enacted legislation that ratchets renewables content up over time, which will inevitably lead to a system black event. They aren’t considering solar flares at all.
A mass die-off of Australians is now inevitable because our staggeringly negligent and/or criminally complicit policymakers failed to learn enough about basic electrical engineering and astrophysics or have sold us out to the globalists.
The Australian electricity system was set up as an essential service and NOT FOR PROFIT.
Shame on the corrupt government and power companies, as our Constitution protects our public funded power assets, infrastructure and services for the people but now US and Chinese corporations control our energy assets and are screwing us and making billions by charging excessive fees for power and can withhold supply at whim.
The WEF, WHO, UN, EU etc, Schwab, Soros and Gates and corporations like Blackrock etc have an agenda for total world control and depopulation. They dont care about our country but they control politicians and therefore our energy supply which puts all Australians at risk.
They can limit or stop our power supply whenever expedient to them and target specific homes or individuals if they are non compliant or can’t pay.
Contracts for the unlawful sale of public assets must be rescinded and our power stations and energy supply assets returned to public utilities for the benefit of the people and greedy middle men must go.
Corrupt politicians, beaurocraps and corporate CEOs and managers on million dollar salaries are lining their pockets at the expense of the people! This is criminal.
There will be class actions against every Premier, Energy Minister, politician and energy corporation and board member who defrauds and robs the public and receives kickbacks, shares and dividends. They will go to gaol and their ill gotten gains will be retrieved to re-establish our energy utilities to benefit the people.
Criminal acts and ommissions against the Australian people will not be forgotten nor forgiven. Those responsible for treason and gross misconduct will be brought to justice.
When Trump gets back in power soon and drains the US swamp he will also come and sort out Oz, NZ, Canada etc.
Brian Johnston – Please ask our host to forward me your contact details and I’ll send them and your comment from June 19 at 10.51 pm to my mate the electrical engineer. It’ll be up to him if he gets back to you.
Pat from Vic – Tour guides have a “Rule of Three” for survival – here’s a sample copied from the first website a quick search brought up. (https://www.trailhiking.com.au/safety/survival-rule-of-threes-and-survival-priorities/)
“Generally, the rule of threes contains the following:
You can survive for 3 Minutes without air (oxygen) or in icy water
You can survive for 3 Hours without shelter in a harsh environment (unless in icy water)
You can survive for 3 Days without water (if sheltered from a harsh environment)
You can survive for 3 Weeks without food (if you have water and shelter)”
I nominated four days for the deaths from thirst because of the presence of bottled water in supermarkets – which will probably have their doors smashed in on day two.
Societal standards have been slipping for years due to the white anting of our culture by the globalist Marxists.
When it becomes apparent that there will be no police response whatsoever, there will be a section of the community that goes into full gangster mode.
While the urge to go gangster has always been within some of us, and the globalists subversion has brought that urge closer to the surface, there’s another factor at play at this point on the human timeline.
It’s the weakening magnetic field that I mentioned here – https://cairnsnews.org/2023/04/14/deep-state-almanac-part-two/.
Life on this planet is bioelectric and the decreased strength of the magnetic field allows additional radiation and particles to disrupt bioelectrical processes.
The indicators are everywhere in the biology journals – the magnetic field decline is messing with everything from whales to birds to soil microbes.
We’re no exception – in fact, the big human brain makes us more vulnerable to the effects of changes in electromagnetism.
That’s probably the biggest reason that behaviour is worsening at an accelerating rate.
To decrease the effects on your own system, there’s a few things you can do.
Earth yourself regularly – walk on wet grass with bare feet.
Get as healthy as possible.
Avoid as many globalist contaminants as you can – filter your water and grow as much of your own food as possible.
And keep your head on a swivel.
Peter Campion. Can you put me in touch with the electrical engineer who works in coal fired power stations?
Here it is. Wind turbines do not produce the essential and legally required 50 hertz sinusoidal energy. They dont work. they cant boil a jug. They do produce useless harmonics termed in the industry as dirty energy which through smart meters are fraudulently added to consumers power bills. They also rising and dangerous earth voltages.
And, rooftop PV solar cannot enter the grid. It does not have the capacity, the oomph to do so. The energy coming from the grid is of greater inertia than the rooftop energy attempting to enter the grid.
A fluke power quality analyser meter tells a very interesting story. They measure and show by screen Total Harmonic Distortion THD’s. I have seen grid measurements above 90% when they should be below 5%. The question is: What is all that THD, where is it coming from and where is it going to. We know where it is going to, straight onto the consumers power bill.
There is a massive fraud taking place.
Peter Campion said – “Some are claiming I don’t know what I’m talking about so they can cling to the faint hope that I’m wrong, that a long system black event can’t happen.”
Seems to be a certain amount of presumption going on there, Mr. Campion, attributing motives to commenters.
There’s no doubt that one or more Australian states are headed for grid failures, whether by accident or more likely by design – being the outcome desired by the genocidal Globalists and their legions of stooges entrenched throughout the structures of Australian governance.
There’s also no doubt that the scale and duration of those grid failures is potentially catastrophic, again whether by accident or design.
What is open to conjecture are the finer details of the extent and rate of onset of the consequences of such unfolding catastrophes. I maintain that the casualties will be potentially horrendous, at least within the Australian context, but spread over a rather longer timeframe than you suggest. That in itself is a cruel paradox of the survival dilemma.
People are nothing if not resourceful in the face of existential threats, and necessity is the mother of invention. In any case, Australians for the most part tend to be resilient bastards, if not generally the brightest.
Suffice to say that people of all stations would do themselves a big favour by prepping now – hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
It seems some commenters are suffering from shock at the immediate horror of the consequences of a system black event as I’ve described in this op-ed and are now in denial.
Some are claiming I don’t know what I’m talking about so they can cling to the faint hope that I’m wrong, that a long system black event can’t happen.
That way they can continue living their lives in cities and suburbs safe from the fallout of what the globalist parasites that infest our parliaments have placed squarely in their future.
Because if you don’t acknowledge the crocodile, it can’t eat you, right?
One commenter even hopes I’m wrong based on a term I used being associated in a tiny minority of readers’ minds with an early computer language.
Mate, I write in terms that the majority understand because I’ve tried writing op-eds in precise technical terms, and I get complaints that readers don’t know what those terms mean so the message is lost on them.
I feel genuinely sorry for the in-denial commenters, because one way or another, either through anti-hydrocarbon policy or by solar flare, that system black is coming.
It could be in ten years, or it could be in ten days.
Or in ten minutes.
I expect most readers here know full well that we get three-day wind droughts across the full extent of the east coast grid fairly regularly.
They know it gets dark at night.
They know our large hydro capacity is limited.
They know we can’t afford enough chemical batteries.
They know the parasites and their useful idiots want hydrocarbon use ended.
They know that when enough coal-fired plants are closed (and dynamited!) a system black is inevitable.
The dots are so close they’re nearly touching, but some just don’t want to connect them because the picture is just too horrible to contemplate.
This op-ed is so Cairns News readers, my kind of people, accept what’s in their future and prepare accordingly.
If you’re in a city or suburban area, you need a bug-out plan – and you need to practice it to iron out the kinks.
You need a bug-out bag so you can get mobile quickly.
Above all else, you need a friendly destination.
It’s no good having a vague notion of going bush, because those in the bush will repel all who represent a threat, a drain on resources, or who cannot contribute meaningfully.
You know the globalists want depopulation, you’ve read their books and seen their videos, you’ve lived through their plandemic.
Don’t be shocked into denialism – get to work on preparing for the inevitable.
Brian Johnston, sorry my comment below was – is meant for you. In case you cannot find it here is a copy.
The Biggest / major risk to the electricity grid is: “Management GREED.” Look who controls, and then follow the direction of the money trail…
Australia use to have the cheapest electrical service in the world before the whole lot was sold and arrived in very Greedy hands. I’m NOT naming names because people who do know what I mean know the same as what I know… Going back to the Seventies and Eighties.
Peter Campion, Your last comment re “Rebooting the grid.” I hope that electrical Engineer knows what he is saying? Rebooting, is derived from rebooting a computer many years ago, going back to the Cobol times. Give the damn computer the boot. So Ctrl+Alt+Del was born as a small command line to re-start the computer…
By the way yes it still works [sort of] under O/S environment [pending] but is better under DOS command structure… If you don’t know what your doing leave it alone…
The Biggest / major risk to the electricity grid is: “Management GREED.” Look who controls, and then follow the direction of the money trail…
Australia use to have the cheapest electrical service in the world before the whole lot was sold and arrived in very Greedy hands. I’m NOT naming names because people who do know what I mean know the same as what I know… Going back to the Seventies and Eighties.
Bruce said – “… please look at Flat Earth and the link provided to open the eyes of all who are lied to by NASA and the world governments…”
Thanks for an excellent link…
I’d suggest the general video page –
https://www.deanodle.org/videos-all
– which allows selection of any of Dean Odle’s video lectures.
Friend just sent me this… and it could be credible as the FBI and other government departments were recently hacked for ransom in the last week… they have also threatened EU banks… see RT News articles.
https://twitter.com/matttttt187/status/1670235603122679808
Prepare and share.
I totally agree with you about the power situation and people should prepare for power outages as per your article But !! Solar flairs don’t exist and if they did, well the sun would need to be a real SUN. please look at Flat Earth and the link provided to open the eyes of all who are lied to by NASA and the world governments
https://www.deanodle.org/videos-creation
And why haven’t they fixed the coal fired Callide Power Station yet – its been offline since November 2022! They can afford millions for Ukraine that turns into scrap metal as soon as it gets there – why not spend it to fix the power station!
I guess its a timely reminder to get some non perishable food in, fill up large water containers, keep your pottery water purifier jars full at all times…..and also get some solar torches and lanterns …
The sun is quiet at the moment but it is overdue for some flares. Might be a nice break to get a rest from the mobiles, TV and other propaganda gadgets. People will be actually able to talk to each other… Buy a primus, or canister camp stove.
Luckily I have gas for cooking and also shower. I can’t believe they are trying to get rid of this cheap and reliable fossil fuel..They could easily make it cleaner instead of spending our money on wind turbines and solar panels – which are nothing more than hazardous waste… and the wind turbines are not green at all, they use oil. My electricity bill is almost nil because I use gas as well. I
Makes you wonder how civilisation survived for millennia without electricity?
When was the last solar flare event that caused an apocalypse?
Human beings are ingenious creatures, if we can get oil from the bottom of the arctic we can surely hand pump out of an underground fuel tank in a servo, yes?
Reservoirs full of water? Opportunity for some enterprising cyclists to draw out & distrbute.
Reminds me of the Y2K scaremongering, what’s your game mate?
We have asked you before please send us an article about it. We know about asynchronous power and the need for inverters.
Malcolm Roberts too has been on about it for years. Send on cairnsnews@protonmail.com Ed
The guru on solar flares, the coming galactic electromagnetic sheet reversal, ground induction currents, etc, is Ben Davidson at Suspicious0bservers.
Ben’s daily updates on YouTube are one of my highest priorities each day.
Here’s his summary of Earth’s catastrophe cycle – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j635Cv2aOlA&t=0s.
I strongly recommend all Ben’s material, including his three books.
The info on rebooting the grid came directly from an electrical engineer who works in coal-fired power stations.
We have known for some time that the inmates are running the asylum. What is distrubing is that the asylum has become a Satanic Sanctuary, protected by suppression orders, official secrets and a network of underground bases connected by tunnels to Antarctica, Pine Gap and the Northern Hemisphere network. The Billionaire maps show that Australia and New Zealand will bcome one continent. Most of the other continents will be under water. We are being groomed!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2017/06/10/the-shocking-doomsday-maps-of-the-world-and-the-billionaire-escape-plans/?sh=623e40c24047
Brian Johnston said – “The article is a waste of time.”
Not entirely – it does raise some issues that probably most people have never even considered if the electricity grid fails – whether by fortuitous accident or by malevolent intent.
Brian Johnston also said – “I should not be replying.”
Yeah you should. How are people otherwise to build a picture of what’s up without a plurality of perspectives?
And Brian Johnston said – “The author does not understand electricity.”
True dat.
But then, most people probably have no clue about the finer points of power technology.
What matters in this case is the experience of the user at the consumer end of the supply chain.
TBH, some of the author’s warnings are just a little over-hyped – but the issues raised are relevant and potentially deadly nonetheless.
If nothing else, the article should at least give people pause and maybe encourage them to consider prepping for the worst case.
After all, these Globalist bastards impersonating our “governments” do actually want to kill us all.
The article is a waste of time. I should not be replying. The author does not understand electricity. He refers to in paragraph beginning Authorities rebooting …
Stable synchronous electricity from Victoria
Asynchronous inverter based generators
Solar and wind cannot black start as they don’t initiate the stable 50 hertz, whatever he means by initiate.
A whole lot of scaremongering.
If what he says does occur the politicians will be dragged from their homes.
Asynchronous wind turbines should not be connected to the grid. They do not produce the 50 hertz sinusoidal energy.
Rooftop PV solar cannot enter the grid.
Especially with all the wind turbines to be connected all that will be required is a storm or a bolt of lightning and the grid will crash.
To put it bluntly, our socialist politicians want to kill us off…as Pat from Vic says…the sooner the better.
Have they stopped to think that if this apocalypse happens, they ,too, will be looking for food,water and a safe bunker?
Or has all this been organised and when the time come, they will all board specially hidden and prepared aircraft, and fly off to some safe haven?
Reminds me of a couple of films I saw on tv…perhaps some of the readers can remind me?
In one of them ,they fly off to another planet and in the second one , they sail off to dry land somewhere!
The author said – “By the fourth day of a grid-black event, the death toll from crime is likely to be hundreds of thousands. The death toll from thirst will be in the millions.”
Sure, it will be bad – but these figures are rather tenuous and exaggerated on the high side.
According to these estimates as applied to Queensland, by day four Queensland will be a depopulated wasteland. In truth, it will be neither so swift, nor so merciful.
Let’s keep a perspective on things – if we descend into outlandish hyperbole then no-one is even going to accept that we have a very real and existentially threatening problem.
Just BTW, water is the absolute first priority. If you have no water at all, then you WILL die of thirst after a week, or maybe two weeks at the outside, although the water content of any foods you may have – especially fruits and vegetables and many canned goods – will substantially mitigate this risk.
And without a functioning water supply, your poo-poo will quickly fill the toilet bowl with nowhere to go. Think hard on that.
At least a couple months worth of canned foods are something people should have routinely stocked in their larders. Without electricity, as the author says, your fridge and freezer stores will be cactus in a day or so – so you’ll have to either eat it all or throw it out (where are you going to dispose of rotting foodstuffs, and if you eat it all at once, how are you going to dispose of all that resultant poo-poo?).
The author also said – “We don’t know when the larger events in the past occurred because our pre-industrial society wasn’t electrified…”
News flash – you don’t need to be electrified to understand that the Sun is breaking bad. Electrical machinery isn’t the only stuff affected by solar outbursts.
And the author said – “… in the satellite era we can calculate when the next X100 to X1000 flare is due, and indications are that it will be between the late 2030s and the late 2040s.”
It would be interesting to know what indications the author is referring to here, in the context of the satellite era.
In any case, other analysis agrees with this forecast – specifically a solar nova event sometime in the mentioned time frame. That accords also with an Old Testament warning that “the Sun will shine seven-fold, and the Moon will be as the Sun”.
If that happens, then something akin to Noah’s Flood or worse will afflict the Earth. The Sun-side oceans will boil, the land will burn, and anyone not protected deep underground will die. Funny how they’ve been building doomsday bunkers and such over the last few decades.
This is a civilisation-ending, extinction level event, folks. Better get prepping – you have maybe 20 years. The fears of an electrical grid failure sort of pale in comparison.
The author also said – “The primary responsibility of policymakers must be to ensure electricity remains a dependable and continual service to prevent a mass die-off of Australians.”
Sure, that’s what they should be doing.
But they don’t answer to us, nor even give a rat’s arse about us, because they answer to the foreign shareholders who own the corporation impersonating our “governments”.
And incidentally, they want all of us dead. Apparently they’re feeling a bit impatient – they don’t want to wait for the anticipated Solar Nova to finish us all off in a couple of decades. Go figure.
Unfortunately for Australia it comes down to idiots voted for brainless idiots, claiming to be wise sages, run this country, and with each election it gets worse. So not much hope without a big clean sweep out of the trash.