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Re:Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich by semi-extrinsic on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @12:59PM (#13483958)
How exactly would we lose the electric grid? Nice thing about a distributed infrastructure is that it's, well, distributed.

Also, (nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines|jet aircraft engines) can be (very|relatively) quickly brought into duty producing electricity locally in every city, way before any pandemics and mass starvation.

Longer term, converting from the refrigerated fresh food system of today, to a system based on pickling/curing/canning/iceboxes/etc. is hardly black magic.

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Re:Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich by woofyman on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:07PM (#13484049)
>How exactly would we lose the electric grid?

Coronal mass ejection

>Also, (nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines|jet aircraft engines) can be (very|relatively) quickly brought into duty producing electricity locally in every city, way before any pandemics and mass starvation.

That doesn't scale.

>Longer term, converting from the refrigerated fresh food system of today, to a system based on pickling/curing/canning/iceboxes/etc. is hardly black magic.

>In the short term hundreds of millions would starve or die from heat or cold. Cities only keep on hand weeks worth of food.

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Re:Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich by marchenko on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:33PM (#13484331)
Nuke subs are my mental woobie against my top horror scenario, the low-altitude EMP detonation. Run silent, run deep.

However, this response does not scale well.

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