[–] R34p_Th3_Wh0r1w1nd 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
No, but my generators work just fine.
Haha, I can see it now. The guys like, "I paid $7 for this domain name but damnit I'm gonna use it."
[–] TheBuddha 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
That really depends on the size and location. The whole country couldn't be taken out with a single man-made weapon, with current tech. A large CME could fuck us right up (fuck us right up being the proper scientific term).
Much of our system is hardened and EMPs don't do much damage to anything not powered on. We have some redundancy built in, which is why it's a grid. Unfortunately, it's going to pop a whole lot of transformers and we don't have current building capacity, nor storage, to replace them all immediately. But, we will probably survive, albeit uncomfortably and with some strife.
[–] ilikeskittles ago
I fear the CME more than anything. Carl Sagan said in one of his last interviews that "We've built a society dependent on technology that very few people understand." Let that sink in. What will society do if all this shit stops working at once?
There's going to be some strife, but we will survive. I'd not want to be in a city when it happens - and it will happen. There is a 100% chance that it will happen. It's what stars like ours do and we are terrifyingly close to it. Humans are a bit like cockroaches, so we will survive. I don't have enough information to predict population losses, but it's going to get ugly for a while.
If I know it's coming, I'll just disconnect from the grid and turn the solar panels over and put the brakes on the turbines before flipping the breaker and killing the power to everything.
[–] nosdfnsdf 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
what sort of voltage spike do any of you expect an electromagnetic pulse to deliver to a 400+ volt power line? 20 volts? more?
you have a device, at the epicenter could plausably deliver a lot of voltage spike. A transformer can deliver all sorts of volts. but moving from the epicenter going miles out the voltage spike is drastically reduced like distance square or cube rooted. so a watch may stop, or a computer system may crash but steam generators, power grids,, unless their computers are left without electromagnetic shielding on the rooftop of their stucture theay gonna be ok.
a real sort of threat would be communication loss from radio jamming, or an aluminum dust poured over grid hubs or some shit.
lemme say again, Electromagnetic Pulse is a measurement of Volts over a certain period of time and as we measure way from the epicenter it diminishes by square or cube root i belive.. Antenna radiation should be same maths i think. a volt emp would fuck up a computer but to a power grid thad be nothing lest it hit the delicate computer controlling said grid.