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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by swader999 on Friday May 10, 2024 @03:07PM (#40322736)
World wide grid outage prep? Assuming transformers out continent wide? That's very bad imo. One of the hardest to prepare for. Cities will be impossible.

A year of food stored and a really good place to hide from the hordes that want it. Very difficult imo.

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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by lxgr on Friday May 10, 2024 @03:40PM (#40323059)
A continent-wide transformer blowout would pretty much be the end of modern civilization, as far as I've read. The capacity of both spares and teams capable of swapping them is orders of magnitude too low to do it in time to prevent large-scale collapse of interlinked systems.
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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by hinkley on Friday May 10, 2024 @04:27PM (#40323461)
restarting a dead grid is the blackest of magic.
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