The electrical grid is under attack and then the power sector is all too familiar with the devastation storms like Hurricane Sandy can leave behind and the physical attacks like the 2013 incident and the sub cap station in california. 2013 incident in the substation in california. Thankfully in the cases of storms and physical attacks, the sector has strong plans in place and the systems to restore the power quickly and to avoid the loss of life and property. I am concerned about a cyber attack. Are there similar plans in place for the industry and for the state and local government . Will those provide the same types of protection . Most recently i have been discussing this topic with those in my district asking what they will do in their communities if the power is out for a long period of time. Honestly, most of them do not know because we dont know what to plan for. We have brought together the right people here to tell us today. We are also going to discuss what preparedness looks
And just kind of strung up there and the dutch ship, the flagship of this, you know, task force is built to commercial damage control standards, even socalled low threat environment, somebody may get the hands control standards. How do we deal with these problems with the allies not just technically but in terms of what they are able to survive in terms of threats . If i had that answer as clearly as i would like to we would probably say we have the answers. We are in the bit of discovery. I think you are discovering that. You have outlines a few of the things that come about. What kind of equipment and capabilities do our allies have . We need to understand that and you dont really find those issues until you bring them together. We are still coming back the marines come back to sea we welcome them back and they have a capability as they move ahead on ground operations over the years in iraq and afghanistan. We didnt move at the same pace and stay as synchronized as we should have. Th
Almost 20 percent. You can reduce wheat pit technician but 20 percent hit by introducing very high efficient coalfired plants. At the same time, this kind of hightech, highly efficient coalfired plant indicates a supercritical plan, it takes almost 1 billion to introduced those kind of like you would see. It is almost 40 percent more expensive compared to the conventional. If you compare the total cost, for example, is almost the same in the case subcritical. This initial cost should be financed. I need to encourage the countries to introduce possible technology and concerning coal power plants. And by doing so whee can avoid the deployment of load efficient coalfired plant which may be supported by finance. If you can effectively encourage them to introduce political far plants. Reduce by 20 parts of most. And in this situation is very important function hiss , first of all, theres a very high efficient cold power plant in operation, especially supercritical with very big strings of o
Measures, so forth. Theyre talking about the i work for childrens massive implications that they National Health system. See happening. And im wondering if the panel this question is addressed to has any thoughts on this. Dr. Fullman. You mentioned population as one of the things you would have to thanks. Face eventually down the road, double or tripling. Thank you for your question. Has the institute you work with, as i mentioned in my first has it partnered with any Asean Department of health agencies, remarks, aec, asean economic regional, national or local level, with the hope to reduce community, the group asean is the number of consumers and the demand for Energy Consumption . Really influential and very relevant to u. S. Business economies. And so is for all Japanese Business communities. And a you know, the Japanese Companies has made tons of thank you very much. Its very hard for me to address investment, Foreign Direct Investment in asean countries for many, many years in the
Good morning, Everyone Welcome to the board of supervisors Budget Finance Committee im mark farrell ill be chairing this meeting im joined by katie tang and shortly with supervisor mar thank you to jonathan and Nona Melkonian madam clerk, any announcements . Electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 24th unless otherwise stated thank you madam clerk we have a relatively short agenda item one. Item one is an ordinances amending the administrative code to direct the Small Business Commission Registry for the fees not to exceed 50 and provide a rebate for businesses and landowner. Thank you madam clerk this item has been sponsored and authored by supervisor campos something ive cosponsored ii i know we have ali to introduce a few amendments. Good morning. Im a legislative aid for supervisor campos so our Office Commission a report from the budget analyst that talked about th