Sounds like a job for the ELF.
I think a lot of people think that 18 months means that the crops would be harvested and trucked to the supermarkets, refineries running, the auto repair shops supplied and open again, etc, immediately after the 18 months, but I don’t think it works that way.
I wonder how long it would be before we could get food and medicine and gasoline, and jobs, and money, again?
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Did they print maps for the terrorists to use or do they have to find them on their own?
But...but...Obama old us about all those "infrastructure" and "shovel ready" jobs he had $Billions for.....
It's not too hard to see why NASA's capability is where it's at these days...
Duhhhhh...and this is made public knowledge, because?!?
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Please send instructions and directrons to all the stations and time of operations please,thank you
This is amazing. All you have to do is read how the Northeast grid was brought up after the blackout to understand that this is malarkey.
We’d be better served to understand what would happen after another Carrington level event. BTW, there are more than one manufacturer of transformers in this country. What confused the writer is that, AFAIK, there may be only one manufacturer in North America of the really large transformers used to connect generators at power plants to the switch yards which in turn connect to the grid.
That’s why a Carrington level event would be catastrophic. In that case 18 months might be highly optimistic for many people.
And even if the interconnecting function is removed, the separate grids will be able to take and distribute power, again, within capacity constraints.
Not long after that, a tornado completely destroyed a tire plant that produced 30 percent of the tire production capacity of the company I worked for. It's not easy to find production capacity of specific sizes of tires for millions of tires per year. Friends of mine were responsible for this. It took them a whole week to find alternative sources. No auto production plant was even shut down. They did work very hard that week.
I vote for weeks, not years, to deal with "destroyed" substations. There are alternatives other than sitting around for two years waiting for China to build transformers.
Good job. Keep publishing these things til the muslims figure it out!
And we wonder why they bad things happen here...
You wouldn’t need to take out all 9 to bring the country to it’s knees.
Just take out 1 or 2 in the most populated areas and 10’s of millions of people would flee to the unaffected areas.
There is no way the unaffected areas could absorb that massive number of people.
The unaffected areas would have to be placed under martial law to handle it.
This was the Russians idea during the Cuban missile crisis.
It will take longer than that. Power lines will need to be replaced [from the riots that occurred] in addition to all of the carnage from the aftermath of this event. I am willing to bet it would take years to repair, including our society.
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The “national” grid needs to be configured so that there are AC-DC-AC boundaries with trip-trigger at the state boundaries for any power line that crosses the state line.
In the event of a massive power surge, this will work to isolate the pulse to state boundaries.
It would probably be a good thing for the country in some ways. Some of the dead weight would be removed from the gene pool, elections would be quite different without the celebrity candidates’ ability to manipulate the media and the Internet, people wouldn’t waste all their time with computers and TV and instead might have to learn to farm or something useful.
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