Re:Solar cycle is more powerful and surprising than predicted
by gremlinsinc on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:14AM
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Most estimates put repairing the grid if all the transformers in America blew at once at around 24 months. significantly longer than a few days. Could you survive without gas stations, cell phones, computers, grocery stores, and a freezer or fridge or oven or washer and dryer etc -- for two whole years?
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Re:Solar cycle is more powerful and surprising than predicted
by hattmall on Saturday August 19, 2023 @10:33PM
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WHy would we need the entire grid to be back up to not starve though. Obviously we would prioritize things and critical infrastructure would be first. What would actually be damaged though. WOuld an individual generator, batteries, actual appliances? Is it just transformers on the grid. Are the wires still good. Also would it hit the entire world, or just the side that was facing the sun at the peak or something?