Sudden electicity failure - hypothetical exercise.

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Dave

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Okay, maybe we can change this to a worldwide economic collapse. Eventually for most places the electricity would run out anyway.
 
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Mathias said:
/facepalm. Electricity is a function of a fundamental physical force. You can't just make it go away. We know how to make electricity. EM pulse happens --> what's broken get's fixed. Life goes on. Tralala. And an EM pulse would have no outstanding effect on wires or the mechanical processes that make electricity. The bulk of electrical power is made from spinning turbines via heat making steam; water flow, or wind, The only power plant that could massively suffer from a fundamental failure in electricity production is possible a solar plant because of damage to the photovoltaic cells would stop them from doing their thing.
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This. I always hate how on movies EMPs are like magical anti-electric device things. They might disrupt something or erase magnetic media. IF you had a strong enough blast with a short enough duration, you could overload circuitry, maybe burn things out. But it's not going to affect things like car solenoids (which I think was what they had to replace in War of the Worlds if I recall correctly), which are designed for massive current flow--that's more or less their purpose of existence. Even given a worse case scenario, nothing is permanent. You can always repair afterwards. If you have some constant monotonically oscillating EM "P" strong enough to continue the damage, then your body will possibly be cooked anyway
 
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But without the EMP disaster you wouldnt get the jessica alba dark angel. Who wants to lose that? science be damned!
 
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Chibibar

Heh. I didn't even think in the realm of science fiction. I was thinking of possible nuclear war (the kind we actually survive more or less) and lost electricity after the generators are out of fuel. Then what?
 
Frank

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I have never seen such an even spread of reviews for anything before. One through five stars have almost the same amount of votes.
 
Officer_Charon

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As with most fiction, you have to suspend your disbelief for it to work truly effectively, but I rather enjoyed it, and if examples portrayed in the novel seem to be more extreme or larger-than-life than should be necessary, I took them as object lessons, rather than direct issues.
 
GasBandit

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Dave said:
Okay, maybe we can change this to a worldwide economic collapse. Eventually for most places the electricity would run out anyway.
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Oh, ok. Well, NOW we're back in old familiar territory.


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... why does that NEVER WORK...
 
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You have to put something else in there with the image. Like a period or something.
 
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