Blackout News reports on how radical activists are attempting to paralyze the power supply in Germany.
It’s already bad enough that the European power grid is already highly unstable and could collapse due to just minor disturbances, this in large part due to the shutdowns of unwanted nuclear and coal-fired power plants and the feeding in of unsteady wind and solar energies.
But now the unstable supply situation is being exacerbated by radical activists sabotaging power supply infrastructure.
Blackout News reports: “For example, radical activists tried to paralyze the power supply for the Tesla plant in Grünheide. There, the Vulkan group claims to have set a cable fire in order to paralyze the power supply.”
Luckily the Tesla plant power supply attack was unsuccessful.
The Grünheide attack was not an isolated incident. Blackout News also reports: “Left-wing radical activists have also claimed responsibility for an arson attack on power cables in connection with a power outage in parts of Munich. The attack was intended to target a supplier of the German Armed Forces.”
The authorities are investigating. That attack was successful: “The cable fire left around 20,000 households in eastern Munich without electricity for more than 24 hours on May 21.”
A letter claiming responsibility for the Tesla plant and German Army attacks was allegedly written: “The primary target of this action was arm’s manufacturer Rhode & Schwarz at Munich’s Ostbahnhof, which we were, fortunately, able to cut off the juice for at least 24 hours.”
It took several days to fully repair the damage. The power outage was localized, but “vaccine and insulin spoiled in the refrigerators of pharmacies and doctors’ offices,” writes Blackout News.
The deputy chairman of the Bundesverband für den Schutz Kritische Infrastrukturen (German Association for Critical Infrastructure Protection), Dr. Hans-Walter Borries, sees “a new danger for critical infrastructure facilities” in Germany, which are “hardly protected”.
These include infrastructure for the supply of electricity, natural gas, water supply, and telecommunications. “There have already been several attacks on electricity pylons, telephone converters, and telephone junction boxes.”
Experts now worry that copycats will repeat attacks and do a better job of learning where to hit infrastructure more effectively.
“There are many virtually unprotected facilities on the European power grid at which an attack would have far more serious consequences, reports BlackOut News. “It is only a matter of time before militant groups acquire the relevant information and plan attacks on a much larger scale.”
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This is actual terroism that can kill people. The action is attempted murder of those who depend on the energy to survive. Simple. Such people have no right to exist in a modern society. So, create a Green Prison Island to send them all to, where they can live entirely off what is there without the awful inventions of the last 200 years?
The region where I live is highly vulnerable to attacks on the power grid. About six terrorists in a well coordinated attack have the potential of taking out the power serving six million people. A group of twelve terrorists might be able to impact ten million people. I always told myself the reason this hasn’t been done is terrorists want a high body count. A subway bombing kills a lot more than the few who would die from lack of power. Also, in the so called utopia world that has responded to climate change everything is run by electric power. It doesn’t make sense to attack it, especially power to a Tesla plant. I should know better than to expect terrorists to do something that makes sense.
Our power lines go through many miles of forest so we have many power outages due to wind storms. Everyone here owns a home generator. Now consider the motivation for people in urban areas when power outages are common due to unreliable renewable energy. Now add to this motivation to have a generator of power outages from terrorists. The result is the opposite than I would think that the terrorists want. I couldn’t get the figures, but I’m sure that home generators produce more carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour of power than utility fossil fuel power plants. Again, terrorist attacks on electric power doesn’t make sense.