Re:Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall
by freediddy on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:24AM
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Has no one been paying attention to how Ukraine/Russia and now Iran has been targeting civilian infrastructure? All of Spain's electricity was down last year from a cyberattack. This is completely a new line of threat that we need to address.
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Re:Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall
by 3eb7988a1663 on Monday October 12, 2026 @08:24PM
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There are significantly better targets than fields of solar panels. There are 132 oil refineries in the country. Taking out even one would have immediate repercussions to energy security which are not easily rectified.
There are probably only a handful of backbone transmission routes which serve tens of millions of people. These are isolated and unprotected and could likely be disabled with a loaded truck plowing into a critical piece of infrastructure.
There are things called distribution yards, they are very distinct on google maps, can't be hidden. They were successfully targeted by US in 1990s Yugoslavia war.
It does not take much to bring down electricity distribution.
Re:Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall
by raisin_churn on Monday October 12, 2026 @08:51PM
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Can you source your claim that Spain's electricity was down from a cyberattack? Because that never happened.
https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03/20/entso-e-publishes-expe...