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mmrrbbee t1_ixkih4i wrote

Most of the USA infrastructure will be fine, so will the Panama Canal. All based on 1950’s tech.

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AFSAlameda t1_ixkqkqa wrote

Um no, it won't. The amount of energy pumped through the electricity network will destroy the actual physical infrastructure.

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mmrrbbee t1_ixkqz63 wrote

It doesn’t require advanced tech to fix, we’d have a lot of manual labor, but that’s why things don’t get modernized. The canal is an example because the local population can fix it with low tech skills

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AFSAlameda t1_ixku4yt wrote

No, you're underestimating the infrastructure requirements to make a high tension power distribution grid. You need power to make the components.

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nesquikchocolate t1_ixkw17k wrote

And diesel generators somehow don't exist, which are semi-portable and can be taken to factories that don't already have them?

There only has to be 1 ship full of fuel out on the ocean to be able to restart an oil processing plant.

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mmrrbbee t1_ixl07z9 wrote

Oddly enough, most oil refineries are 1950’s tech too. A lot are closing rather than modernizing, so they are just sitting there offline.

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AFSAlameda t1_ixl4xxh wrote

You guys aren't getting it. Any copper cabling goes up in a puff of smoke.

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nesquikchocolate t1_ixld11a wrote

What a disingenuous troll... No, copper doesn't disappear because of solar flares, we've got millions of years of proof for that.

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