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> Imagine the entire US and Canada east of roughly Kansas being dark. For weeks? Without ATMs, gas pumps, grocery stores, etc? It all runs on electricity. It w
by riskneutral 5y ago
> Imagine the entire US and Canada east of roughly Kansas being dark.
For weeks? Without ATMs, gas pumps, grocery stores, etc? It all runs on electricity. It would get pretty grim. According to risk assessments of EMP risk, 90% of Americans of die after 1 year of not having electricity.
- Filligree 5y agoThis is why we don't try to test it, yeah. Black starts take forever in part because there's no solidified procedure for it, but producing such a procedure would require causing the disaster we're trying to avoid. So far nothing quite as bad as a real black start has yet happened, and here's hoping it never will.
- naveen99 5y agohttps://www.quora.com/If-a-massive-solar-event-suddenly-had-a-severe-EMP-effect-on-the-Earth-and-all-electronics-went-dead-what-would-you-do-first/answer/Mark-Fergerson?ch=17&oid=88230503&share=401be70a&srid=hh0m3&target_type=answer https://www.quora.com/If-a-massive-solar-event-suddenly-had-... solar flares are predictable with enough notice. If it’s an h bomb, we will have enough problems with or without the empl. So, please stop writing old fashioned fairy tales here.
- riskneutral 5y agoIs your whole argument that a solar flare will be predicted with enough notice and the grid will be shutdown in time to save us?
- naveen99 5y agoYes. Of course a comet could also annihilate us at any time.
- riskneutral 5y agoLet's hope it works out that way, and not like this Texas electric grid story.