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So, does that mean we'd have time to shut off our power grid and disconnect any long lines of metal? AIUI, it's only a problem if sufficiently long wires are a

So, does that mean we'd have time to shut off our power grid and disconnect any long lines of metal? AIUI, it's only a problem if sufficiently long wires are actually connected to vulnerable equipment.

superkuh 5y ago
Yes. But I think there'd be a lot of political/social problems with that. The solution for the grid at least is to spend the infrastructure money to put fast ground fault interrupters on all irreplacable (<months) big backbone transformers.