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> modern society is so incredibly fragile http://energyskeptic.com/2016/when-trucks-stop-running-so-does-civilization/ http://energyskeptic.com/2016/when-truck
by acqq 7y ago
> modern society is so incredibly fragile
http://energyskeptic.com/2016/when-trucks-stop-running-so-does-civilization/ http://energyskeptic.com/2016/when-trucks-stop-running-so-do...
"When Trucks Stop Running, So Does Civilization"
and also
http://energyskeptic.com/2015/power-transformers-that-take-up-to-2-years-to-build/ http://energyskeptic.com/2015/power-transformers-that-take-u...
"Large power transformers are essential critical infrastructure to the electric grid, and are huge, weighing up to 820,000 pounds. If large power transformers are destroyed by a geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) electromagnetic pulse (EMP), cyber-attack, sabotage, severe weather, floods, or simply old age, parts or all of the electric grid could be down in a region for 6 months to 2 years. "