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[–] TheBuddha 0 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.

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[–] 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?

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[–] TheBuddha ago 

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.