Re:Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich
by woofyman on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:07PM
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>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.
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.