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infrastructure s too from emp, cyber, from all the threats we ve been talking about because the chief problem is nobody is in charge of protecting the critical infrastructures. never thought about that. mark: what would we do for two or three billion dollars? install faraday cages and blocking devices and surge arrestors on the transformers. you can put a surge arrestor on the transformer, just like on the personal computer to protect it from lightning, you can have a specially designed surge arrestor that will protect against lightning, nuclear emp, emp from the sun. had we done so, it would protect you against all of these worst-case scenarios, not just nuclear emp and cyber, but also severe weather like hurricanes. millions of people or hundreds of thousands of people who are made homeless for months by hurricane sandy would have been able to go home earlier if the electric grid had been hardened against nuclear emp because it would have been able to survive the overvoltages that

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