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originally posted by: swanne
a reply to: 727Sky
Most species on Earth and many human settlements do not rely on electricity. A modern-time Carrington event would be a game-changer, sure, but it would most certainly not bring extinction.
As of July 2015, 30 countries worldwide are operating 438 nuclear reactors for electricity generation and 67 new nuclear plants are under construction in 15 countries.
www.nei.org...
originally posted by: swanne
a reply to: 727Sky
Most species on Earth and many human settlements do not rely on electricity. A modern-time Carrington event would be a game-changer, sure, but it would most certainly not bring extinction.
originally posted by: ketsuko
For an idea of what a widespread and prolonged outage of the power grid would hypothetically be like, read One Second After. It's premise is an EMP attack, but functionally the effects to a modern society of losing all electricity across a wide swath of the modern world would pretty much be about the same.
originally posted by: burgerbuddy
Hell, the electrician shut the elec yesterday to install a light and it sucked!
This was in the middle of the day too! I was on ATS writing a post. lol.
An event like that would be horrible and world wide.
originally posted by: butcherguy
Think no food and a extreme lack of potable water happening very quickly.
Not so long ago a vehicle with a diesel engine would have been immune to the effects of a Carrington Event. Today's diesel engines have a whole lot of controls that allow them to function. These controls would be fried if we get a real solar blast.