"Grid Down, Power Up": A Dennis Quaid Documentary on the Risks of Electric Grid Failure.

Actor Dennis Quaid has released a documentary called "Grid Down, Power Up" that explores the dangers of a sudden power grid failure that could send the US back to the 1880s. Quaid warns that the US power grid is often overlooked in terms of its sensitivity and importance to daily life, and that a catastrophic outage caused by an atmospheric or space-based attack could take up to 30 days to fix. He estimates that a $50 billion federal budget allocation over several years could go a long way in upgrading and safeguarding the grid.