But in reality, most power grids are based on 1950s technology, with sketchy communications and antiquated control systems.
Will encourage companies to have better data security, especially for power grids, water systems, and other core critical infrastructure.
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Those disruptions, NASA warns, could affect high-frequency communications, interfere with GPS satellites, and could also potentially disrupt power grids.
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It is building connections to intelligent power grids, which businesses and homes could use to reduce their energy bills.
It could be decades before power grids could be free of this menace.
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With the fervor of a convert, he's urging utilities across the country to build data-delivery systems on their power grids.
But experts say a successful, large-scale attack on U.S. computer systems could hobble electric-power grids, transportation networks and industrial-supply chains.
An attack on U.S. computer networks could knock out power grids, telecommunications, transportation and banking systems in a matter of seconds.
In such a gamble do the planners even care about minor disruptions to power grids in the rest of the world?
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When powerful eruptions reach Earth, the charged matter can blow out transformers in power grids as well as tripping electronics on satellites.
Treasury, he said, was in advanced planning for offshore wind farms to tap into the British and Irish power grids via undersea cables.
When certificates expire unexpectedly, vital health and financial information stops flowing, power grids go dark, and business and personal transactions stop in their tracks.
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Solar blasts heading toward Earth can stoke up beautiful auroras in the nighttime sky, and wreak havoc on communications satellites and electrical power grids.
According to Hamre, the power grids and other critical public services likely will be the first systems to fail in these countries because of the Year 2000 bug.
Life outside of the urban power grids was pretty restrictive.
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The great symbol of American mobility is morphing into a network device, a data-generating green machine plugged into a matrix of power grids, cloud computers and social media.
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Also, demand for power in remote areas without access to power grids is growing exponentially, and the rising cost of fossil fuels makes remote power an even greater challenge.
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Northern Powergrid's chief executive Phil Jones said the investment was to "prepare the UK's electricity networks for the move to smarter power grids needed for a long-term low carbon future".
On November 13th he called for a nine-point European pact on the future of employment, including crash programmes to expand power grids and to festoon the countryside with broadband networks.
Thanks to a series of severe storms that clobbered electric-power grids in New York and Connecticut recently, the fuel-cell industry appears poised for a modest to massive growth spurt.
They hope to use the Texas grid, which (fittingly, for the Lone Star state) stands alone from North America's eastern and western power grids, as a crucible for their reforms.
Moreover, smaller, more powerful generators and microturbines (mini- jet engines that are fueled by natural gas) are being developed that will skip existing power grids altogether, or be new sources of power to others.
Moreover, smaller, more powerful generators and microturbines (mini jet engines that are fueled by natural gas) are being developed that will skip existing power grids altogether, or be new sources of power to others.
"It was more powerful than the famous March 6, 1989 flare which was related to the disruption of the power grids in Canada, " said Paal Brekke, a project scientist with the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
As a result of rising sea levels from warming global temperatures, coastal communities will require vastly expensive upgrades to key infrastructure such as subways, power grids and hospitals to boost their resiliency to stronger storms.
But a solar storm has the potential to disrupt the shielding effect, and severe space weather can have harmful effects on a wide array of technological systems, including satellite operations, communications, navigation and electric power grids.
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More investment is flowing to technologies such as upgraded power grids with smart meters that allow users to better manage their consumption of electricity, and energy-efficient buildings that reduce the cost of operations and improve human health through better air quality.
This is especially true at very large and very small scales (think astronomy or particle physics), but also liminal spaces or large sociotechnical systems that cannot be experienced completely or directly (think cyberspace, but also large infrastructure systems like power grids, interstrate highway systems, etc.).
The emergency procedures are a progressive series of steps that allow ERCOT to bring on uncommitted generation and power from other grids.
But the iShack's developers say that slum dwellers usually have to wait for years for power and water grids or low-cost housing to arrive.
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