I remember when the polar freeze happened in Texas, I was reading a report about how if a relatively small number of power stations broke down in the US (like, a dozen?), it would cause tens of millions of deaths. The cost to life from a geomagnetic storm would be staggering.
I’ll have to look for that report and link it
Found an article about it: https://www.powermag.com/expect-death-if-pulse-event-hits-power-grid/
Yeah that “90% of the US dead” stat is wild, but totally believable with the pandemic exposing how fragile our system is. The first winter would kill most people in the Rockies, Midwest, and Northeast
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I remember when the polar freeze happened in Texas, I was reading a report about how if a relatively small number of power stations broke down in the US (like, a dozen?), it would cause tens of millions of deaths. The cost to life from a geomagnetic storm would be staggering.
I’ll have to look for that report and link it
Found an article about it: https://www.powermag.com/expect-death-if-pulse-event-hits-power-grid/
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Yeah that “90% of the US dead” stat is wild, but totally believable with the pandemic exposing how fragile our system is. The first winter would kill most people in the Rockies, Midwest, and Northeast