David, You probably did not listen to the video - the scenarios they discuss are not as upbeat as yours. There are a number of additional videos/articles on the subject. Quite a few experts paint a much grimmer picture of what happens after an extreme event - no power, no transportation, no communication, no food, no replacement generators, total civil disorder, .... Safety systems at nuclear plants would only run for a month or so - then, as discussed in the meeting we "would have Fukushimas all over the country."
David Roberson wrote: > I would hope that a backup system would kick in if the grid went down. > Battery operation kept the Fukushima reactors safe for a few hours and had > the diesels been functional, there might not have been such a mess. > > > There are varying levels and types of EMP to worry about. EMP from a > nuclear weapon most likely would behave quite differently from that > sourced by a solar flare. The EMP fields from nuclear weapons are > instantaneously generated with the associated extremely rapid waveforms. > Is there any reason to suspect that those originating from a solar > eruption would be similar? My guess is that a large, long term, but > slowly changing field would be easy to defend against. All of the > problems would appear almost DC related instead of high energy microwave > like. For instance radios would not even be dangerously damaged with > solar related issues. > > > Transformer overloads would be likely, and so would transmission lines, > and other long distance metallic paths. This would be bad, no doubt, but > not likely to blow up the diesel systems and their controls. The battery > backups should survive without serious harm either. > > > So, we could expect serious problems with power transmission that lasts > until the components are repaired, but I doubt a nuclear catastrophe. > > > Dave > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> > To: vortex-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, Aug 1, 2013 7:03 pm > Subject: [Vo]:(Video) Catastrophic solar flare narrowly misses Earth > > > They ought to be working on it now. In 1859 many/most had access to farms > for food and did not rely on electricity/electronics for almost > everything. Today we have millions of people racked and stacked in cities > totally reliant on a power infrastructure that could be knocked out for a > year or more. A large flare is going to happen. Fukushima was a good > example of how woefully unprepared a power company is if there is a loss > of grid power and diesel backup. I wonder if those diesel gensets have > electronic ignitions that will still function? I used to work for > Honeywell, what if the control system gets fried? I still remember those > helicopters dumping loads of water on top of the reactors, how effective > was that? > > On Thursday, August 1, 2013, wrote: > > Dave, > > I don't think ChemE is being gloomy. > Starting at 0:48:42 in the video, someone remarks - > "... A general EMP would have Fukushimas all over the country." > > One recent paper in arxiv indicated that the probability of such an > event in a human lifetime is not that small. > > The video shows that the elites are abandoning "normality bias". > As they stated, for less than $2B, the grid could be hardened. > That's money well spent. > > -- Lou Pagnucco > > Dave Roberson wrote: >> No need to be so gloomy ChemE. We have survived thus far. >> >> >> Dave >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> >> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thu, Aug 1, 2013 4:36 pm >> Subject: Re: [Vo]:(Video) Catastrophic solar flare narrowly misses Earth >> >> >> There will come a day. It probably won't be the EMP directly that gets >> us. It will be untold numbers of fission reactors that cannot get their >> backup batteries and diesel generators to run, or enough diesel fuel, >> which will lead to multiple meltdowns and will be the end to life as we >> know it. >> [...] > > > > >
