From Undecided with Matt Ferrell.
The National Grid Is Dead. Here’s What Replaces It. 👉 Grab your free seat to the 2-Day AI Mastermind: https://link.outskill.com/UNDECIDEDMFAP2 🔐 100% Discount for the first 1000 people 💥 Dive deep into AI and Learn Automations, Build AI Agents, Make videos & images – all for free! 🎁 Bonuses worth $5100+ if you join and attend. In April 2025, most of Spain and Portugal went dark. A cascading failure knocked out the Iberian peninsula’s grid in seconds. Just four years earlier, Texas came within 4 minutes and 37 seconds of its own total collapse. Not a temporary blackout. A full shutdown. What engineers call a "black start," a process that could take days to weeks to recover from. Not to mention all of the people that died as a result. According to the Department of Energy, 70 percent of US transmission lines are over 25 years old. We’re running 21st century lives on a mid-20th century grid. But back in 1997, energy consultant Karl Rábago wrote a blueprint for a radically different grid. His model? The internet. Seriously. And no, I’m not talking about today’s internet, which is just five billionaires in a trench coat. I’m talking about the ’90s internet. Decentralized. Collaborative. And really, really cool. So how would the internet stop a blackout? And why did the guy who figured it out get ignored for 30 years? But first, we need to understand what went so wrong.
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Chapters
00:00 – Intro
02:52 – But It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way
05:40 – Internetification
08:22 – The 30-Year Blueprint
11:24 – Broadband Jesus Goes Electric
13:52 – But Here’s the Problem
15:22 – Here’s My Take
