mmrrbbee t1_ixkqz63 wrote
Reply to comment by AFSAlameda in If a solar flare were to wipe most if not all technology, what plans/countermeasure could be taken to slow rebuild things like the internet? by Zak_the_Reaper
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
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.
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.
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.
AFSAlameda t1_ixl4xxh wrote
You guys aren't getting it. Any copper cabling goes up in a puff of smoke.
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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