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One Atmospheric Nuclear Explosion Could Take Out the Power Grid

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And yet, until now, government and industry risk assessments about EMP attacks and their effects on the power grid have been based on oversimplified models of the solid Earth that assume zero variation in depth or composition. covering portions of Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee. John MacNeill.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer.

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