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Comment Yep (Score 1) 44

Even switching off the grid will not stop current being induced and transformers overloading. As I understand - a transformer takes six months to build and six months to install - with power. Imagine 50 or 60% of them blowing up. Couple that with a magnetic field thatâ(TM)s tanking - so the protection we get from it is weakening⦠Some estimates are it would take years maybe a decade to recover - if we do at all - ie decades and back to the Stone Age as our civilisation ends. Not a great outlook for the next 30 years :( But of a rabbit hole when you dig into itâ¦

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