A lot will happen in 2025!

On August 14, 2003, a cascading failure of the power grid plunged more than 50 million people into darkness in the northeast US and Canada. It was the most significant power outage ever in North America, with an economic impact north of ten billion dollars. Calamities like this don’t happen in a bubble, and there were many human factors, political aspects, and organizational issues that contributed to the blackout. But, this is an engineering channel, and a bilateral task force of energy experts from the US and Canada produced this in-depth 240-page report on all of the technical causes of the event that I’ll try to summarize here. Even though this is kind of an older story, and many of the tough lessons have already been learned, it’s still a nice case study to explore a few of the more complicated and nuanced aspects of operating the electric grid, essentially one of the world’s largest machines. I’m Grady, and this is Practical Engineering. Today, we’re talking about the Northeast B...

  It’s about as regular as clockwork . Every time there’s another mass shooting, the gun control crowd talks about restricting the Second Amendment; enacting what they call “common sense” gun law. The only thing is, those laws are only common sense to those whose main goal is to take guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. As we all know, those laws aren’t going to stop criminals and are only going to criminalize honest, hard-working Americans who want to keep their guns. There are two results of this political posturing. One is an increase in gun sales. People become afraid that they won’t be able to buy their favorite gun and so rush out to buy it before it becomes illegal. Does anyone really think that these people are going to peacefully turn over their guns, just because a law is passed, outlawing them? Former President Obama can justly be called the firearms industry’s number one salesman, for the massive number of gun purchases that his anti-gun rhetoric cau...

  Imagine a very likely scenario, of civil order collapsing and a martial law being imposed over the entire nation. As a survivalist, you cherish your personal freedom. Therefore, you should be concerned regarding what the safest place during martial law is. In this article, I will list the safest places during martial law, as well as the best spots to hide your survival supplies. But first, a few words about martial law and what it means. Let us begin, shall we? Table of Contents 1. What Is Martial Law? 2. Top 10 Safest Places During Martial Law What Is Martial Law? Martial law takes place when a government suspend everyday civil laws and rights. In some instances, a military is the one that imposes its control over the civilians. Martial law is declared during nation-wide or region-wide emergencies, such as war, natural disasters, civil unrest, and so forth. According to the established U.S. legislations, a country-wide martial law can be declared by either the Con...

  Airspace incursions, saber-rattling, and shadow agendas... while the world teeters on the brink of an Armageddon scripted long before today’s diplomats took their seats. I watched the UN Security Council ( 9/22/25) and felt that ugly, familiar nausea:   men in suits reading lines while the world burns a degree closer to midnight. Estonia, Poland, Romania — airspace violated, jets scrambled, statements of “grave concern” issued like polite coughs at a funeral. This is not routine brinkmanship. This is a choreographed stress-test of alliances and public will; a game of nuclear chicken with too many hands on the throttle. This transmission exists to name the mechanics of that game, identify the real players behind the curtains, and give practical — and spiritual — prescriptions for halting the slide. If you think diplomacy alone will save us, read on. If you believe the modern system is immune to capture and profit motives, read on. If you want the blunt truth about how we arri...