Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Large Power Outage Affects Spain, France and Portugal
April 28th, 2025Via: Telegraph: The mass power outages across Spain, Portugal and parts of France could take up to 10 hours to restore after it emerged the blackouts were probably caused by a technical fault. The power networks were in a race against time to restore electricity before sunset when solar generation is likely to cut off […]
India Suspends Indus Water Treaty Following Terrorist Attack, Threatens Pakistan’s Water Supply
April 25th, 2025Via: Al Jazeera: In tit-for-tat moves this week, India and Pakistan have entered a strategic standoff following Tuesday’s attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Indian-administered Kashmir, which resulted in the deaths of at least 26 people. On Wednesday, India downgraded ties with Pakistan, announcing a series of steps, the most important of which is a decision […]
Japan: World’s First Successful Lightning Triggering and Guiding Using a Drone
April 23rd, 2025This might also be useful for defending against attacks from King Ghidorah: Via: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone: NTT has become the first in the world to successfully trigger and guide lightning using a drone. This experiment also demonstrated, under natural lightning conditions, the effectiveness of both the drone’s lightning protection technology and the electric field-based […]
CHINA SUSPENDS RARE EARTH EXPORTS
April 15th, 2025Via: New York Post: China has stopped shipping some heavy rare earth metals and magnets critical to US production of everything from cell phones to fighter jets as Beijing’s trade war with Washington simmers, leaving American industry in a bind. Effective April 3, China is no longer exporting seven heavy rare earth metals processed exclusively […]
Any Tesla Powerwall Installers/Technicians Out There?
April 2nd, 2025Update: Storm Watch Activated Anyway Storm Watch activated and the Powerwall charged to 100%. The Tesla app says, “A severe thunderstorm is forecast for your area. Powerwall has fully charged to provide backup protection.” Hmm… — Off topic. Apologies. The Neurio power meter on my Powerwall 2 / Backup Energy Gateway 1 (gray metal enclosure) […]
Counter Terrorism Police Probe Heathrow Fire
March 21st, 2025Mmm hmm. Via: Daily Mail: Counter terrorism police are now leading the probe into an electrical substation fire that has shut London Heathrow Airport for the whole of today amid claims it could be a Russian sabotage attack linked to Vladimir Putin’s campaign of disruption. More than 1,300 flights to and from the UK’s busiest […]
In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying
March 12th, 2025Via: EFF: EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans. Mark didn’t set out to change the world. For 22 years, he was a telecommunications […]
Research Underway to Enable Satellites to Permanently Orbit in Very Low Earth Orbit
February 9th, 2025Is this actually going to happen? I don’t know why, but Cryptogon is read by many people who are qualified to provide a sanity check on this. I hope they comment. Needless to say, it would be very bad if remote operated/autonomous weapon systems were able to use realtime, high definition imagery, available planet-wide, for […]
Critical Air Safety System NOTAM Goes Down Nationwide
February 2nd, 2025Via: New York Post: Flights across the US could be delayed Sunday after the Federal Aviation Administration’s critical NOTAM warning system experienced an outage —mere days after two deadly plane crashes rocked the nation. Notice to Air Missions — which relays important information about possible hazards to pilots and airports — went dark Saturday night, […]
NYC Subway Train Stolen for “Joyride”
January 31st, 2025Via: Fox5: The NYPD is searching for the six suspects who are accused of stealing a subway train in Queens and taking it for a joyride. According to police, the theft took place at 10 p.m. on Saturday near the 71st Avenue station in Forest Hills. Police said that six suspects got into an empty […]
