[cripplecreek]

There used to be lots of little power plants all over the place. My great grandmother’s brother was a switchkeeper at a small hydroelectric plant in Northern Michigan till the big power company bought it and closed them down in favor of centralized generation.

Now that same company is pimping wind at higher rates.

[catfish1957]

The modern industrial world has been built around advanced computer controls. That also includes pretty much all the fuel and chemicals manufacturing too. Plants would be borught down with very long term down time. Considering the dominoing effect of so many things that need each other to function, 3rd world status would hastily come in matter of weeks.

Not having decent contingency plans for an EMP (either Carrington or nuclear) is absolutely foolish.