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To: Josephus who wrote (806)4/19/2015 1:32:17 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Respond to of 973
 
AMSC has a technology for assisting in preventing large area blackouts by creating redundancy in the grid..

It's one part of a larger solution that is required to harden the electrical grid against EMP strkes, or a massive Solar CME..

This article suggests that, were the US to lose it's power due to either of these events, we could see 90% of the population perish within a year due to starvation, weather, or social upheaval.

It may seem like a "doomsday" scenario, but it's frightenly real,

theeconomiccollapseblog.com

Hawk