During the fighting, electrical substations in Bilice and Konjsko were destroyed, disrupting electric power distribution in Dalmatia.
B3 Japan Struck by Quake The most powerful earthquake in five years struck western Japan at 1 30 p.m., hurting at least 100 people, damaging buildings and disrupting electric power.
What Edison did not figure on when he invented the grid was that some day the United States would have to contend with OPEC -- and far worse, terrorists who might find bombing nuclear generation plants or otherwise disrupting electric service to be an ideal way to spread chaos.
The cyclone severely disrupted electric power production, telecommunications and water supply, as well.
If you assume that those discussions are akin to the chatter at a vehicular Tupperware party, you may be underestimating the potential for smart technologists to disrupt the already disruptive electric car industry.
Ground shaking from earthquakes can collapse buildings and bridges; disrupt gas, electric, and phone services; and sometimes trigger landslides, avalanches, flash floods, fires, and tsunamis.
Won't this disrupt the electric grid?
Chinese auto start-ups are poised to disrupt the electric car market.
Former CIA Director Jim Woolsey, who has been warning of the potential to disrupt the electric grid via EMP, spoke at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club where he described video of the attack.
Former CIA director Jim Woolsey, who has been warning of the potential to disrupt the electric grid via EMP, spoke at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club and described video of the attack.
