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I am slightly more pessimistic than you. I would expect it to wreak havoc with power grids. There will be widespread power outages. As you say, the protection d
by goodcanadian 5y ago
I am slightly more pessimistic than you. I would expect it to wreak havoc with power grids. There will be widespread power outages. As you say, the protection devices should limit the amount of serious damage, though there will be some. I expect it will take some time to restore power, though, as there will be many places where things need to be manually reset: hours to days. A few unlucky places may be without power for weeks.
Electronics will largely be unaffected unless through bad luck of being connected without adequate protection to something else that suffers a surge (mains power or wired communications).
- codezero 5y agoI may be generally optimistic because I grew up in a place that regularly (once every few years) was without power for more than a week at a time and it wasn’t that bad as long as you were even barely prepared. I guess I believe we can patch up what ever does break within weeks or months and our society (the last year highlights) can survive in very extreme conditions. Temporary loss of technological comforts isn’t so big, and I believe, temporary.
- perl4ever 5y agoSeems like the issue would be if (almost) everywhere has an outage that isn't quickly repairable simultaneously. So many phenomena relating to the pandemic have been disruptive more because of synchronization of normally random things.
- codezero 5y agoYep. I just don’t think it’s likely to cause a global meltdown, lots of localized annoying failures. Maybe a few really bad spots.