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The loss of the electric grid would throw us back to the 19th century but without 19th century technology. There would be mass starvation and disease.
by woofyman 10y ago
The loss of the electric grid would throw us back to the 19th century but without 19th century technology. There would be mass starvation and disease.
- analogmemory 10y agoI don't follow, are suggesting that the grid would vanish? Or that all power sources would suddenly be unavailable?
- quickben 10y agoThe grid would probably be there, non functional. It takes a lot of effort to maintain and you can't just exclude some capacity and hope the rest works.
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoHow exactly would we lose the electric grid? Nice thing about a distributed infrastructure is that it's, well, distributed. Also, (nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines|jet aircraft engines) can be (very|relatively) quickly brought into duty producing electricity locally in every city, way before any pandemics and mass starvation. Longer term, converting from the refrigerated fresh food system of today, to a system based on pickling/curing/canning/iceboxes/etc. is hardly black magic.
- woofyman 10y ago>How exactly would we lose the electric grid? Coronal mass ejection >Also, (nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines|jet aircraft engines) can be (very|relatively) quickly brought into duty producing electricity locally in every city, way before any pandemics and mass starvation. That doesn't scale. >Longer term, converting from the refrigerated fresh food system of today, to a system based on pickling/curing/canning/iceboxes/etc. is hardly black magic. >In the short term hundreds of millions would starve or die from heat or cold. Cities only keep on hand weeks worth of food.
- marchenko 10y agoNuke subs are my mental woobie against my top horror scenario, the low-altitude EMP detonation. Run silent, run deep. However, this response does not scale well.