An astronaut on board the International Space Station has photographed a rare sight: the aurora australis (southern lights) as seen from space. This image of...
The only means of reliably protecting the grid, is to shut it down and disconnect all the long power lines till it is over. That means no water, signal lights, air conditioning, or gas pumps working. A person can die in 72hrs from lack of water. Food distribution will be disrupted and basic necessities can be in short supply. These are just some of the effects of turning off the grid intentionally.
If the grid is hit without warning, it will take several years to bring it back up. Individual humans are OK, but when you get a bunch of them together!
Humans will be a bunch of hungry animals in a very small cage if the grid fails completely. Without electricity, the large cities on both coasts quickly become deathtraps. Under the best of conditions the amount of food delivery will not be enough to just keep people alive. Immediate evacuation of all cities, (without functional power generation), must begin or the death toll will be in the millions. Our cities only exist because of our ability to produce and transport food, water, and materials in vast quantities. The population will die back to the point that available technology can actually support it. Americas luck could run out.
LouisofEarth: CME's and a Breakdown in Civilization The only means of
Well worded, but lots of logical leaps and stumbles in this movie-ification of our modern circumstance. I'm not arguing with it, just saying that the author undermines himself in efforts to ramp up the drama. The list of lightning strikes is just silly.
C_Cannon: Well worded, but lots of logical leaps and stumbles in
Thank you for this article DK. I would like to add 2 notes written by a colleague of mine. His name is Andrew Buxton from The Venus project Design. Please go to:
Self sustaining cities would be easier to protect from strong electromagentic impulses. The centralized approach we have now is at a huge risk due to the extremely large cable runs.
There are many ways we can protect the Venus Project Cities just like there are many ways we could protect existing cities from this..
The problem is in this Monetary System, we dont have the money to do it, in the Venus Project and A Global resource based Economy we have the resources to do it so it would be done.
Moodzulu: Thank you for this article DK. I would like to
Does this not fit in with the 12/2012 prediction? EMP protection has long been sought and the military does have some capability, however, I don't think the world would or can be ready for any CME's in the coming years.
Orval_Pintuff: Does this not fit in with the 12/2012 prediction? EMP
The [event] of the Solar Flares at this time, and threw (2012), is not the Cataclysm we should fear, more-over, there is nothing to fear at all. Each millennium last (2100) years, (The Books of Enock), and what year is this? If people knew of the (3) new races, they would know that [communication] on the [Grid] or having acces to the [Akashic] records is done with-out wires or phones. One could Google, (Edgar Cayce) to learn what "Akashic" means, and Google, (Indigo Children), (videos) to find out what, "see you on the grid" means.
Most people don't know what caused the "Great Flood". Keeping in mind, that a few men, during the time of "The Council of Laodicea", that there would only be (66) books that ended up in the Bible, out of (700). The link below is a place to find find the [original] books, with two or threw different translator's, of each book.
The [dwarf] star. Many culture's tell's us of this event. For example, the Christian's tell of this time, is like a women that is ready to give birth. This time, therefore, is like the [dark orb], or the navel, or the birth canel, and that is because we are going threw the [center] of the galaxy. This cataclysm [dwarf] star, the Samarians called it [Nibiru], the Mayan's called it the Red Comet, and the Druid's called it the Frightener and destroyer, and said we would see it etc....
The author over-dramatizes the situation. Although a coronal mass ejection could damage the power grid significantly, it would not be a "semi-permanent" problem. It would take time to fix, but it would not doom us to go back to 5000 BC living conditions.
We do not know how active the sun will be in this period. The sun is awakening from an unprecedented period of quiet. If there was a "brown dwarf" passing through the solar system, we would not have had this period of quiet, and we would have seen perturbation of planetary orbits, including our own, that would have been noticed. The Nemesis theory is unfounded, propounded by a few end-of-the-world groups.
I am not saying that we should not take action to reasonably update and protect the electrical grid and electronics from a coronal mass ejection. What I am saying is that we do not need to be hysterical in our assessment of potential damages.
rtgmath: The author over-dramatizes the situation. Although a coronal mass ejection
fascinating information, DK, thank you. in addition to the things that government agencies need to be doing to protect the grid, it seems it would be prudent for those of us who have found ourselves in highly "developed" countries to consider what it would take to become more self-sufficient. we might look to indigenous wisdom traditions - peoples around the world who still live in simple ways without reliance on technology, to permaculture and food forestry techniques, and to ways that we could begin to make small personal shifts toward greater independence and responsibility for ourselves and our communities. we could certainly be using the electronic technology we've got available to us now to gather the most useful information, so that we don't have to reinvent "appropriate technologies" later - so we won't have to go all the way back to 5000 BC!
As we debate the world's reliance on fossil fuels, maybe we should also be discussing our information-based civilizations dependence on magnetism. With the major exception of physically printed knowledge, civilization is overly dependent upon virtual libraries.
Vandenbroek: As we debate the world's reliance on fossil fuels, maybe
The only means of reliably protecting the grid, is to shut it down and disconnect all the long power lines till it is over. That means no water, signal lights, air conditioning, or gas pumps working. A person can die in 72hrs from lack of water. Food distribution will be disrupted and basic necessities can be in short supply. These are just some of the effects of turning off the grid intentionally.
If the grid is hit without warning, it will take several years to bring it back up. Individual humans are OK, but when you get a bunch of them together!
Humans will be a bunch of hungry animals in a very small cage if the grid fails completely. Without electricity, the large cities on both coasts quickly become deathtraps. Under the best of conditions the amount of food delivery will not be enough to just keep people alive. Immediate evacuation of all cities, (without functional power generation), must begin or the death toll will be in the millions. Our cities only exist because of our ability to produce and transport food, water, and materials in vast quantities. The population will die back to the point that available technology can actually support it. Americas luck could run out.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/andrew-buxton/so-you-want-to-get-rid-of-technology-and-go-back-to-nature-part-1/398899613258
http://www.facebook.com/notes/andrew-buxton/so-you-want-to-get-rid-of-technology-and-go-back-to-nature-part-2/399073913258
Self sustaining cities would be easier to protect from strong electromagentic impulses. The centralized approach we have now is at a huge risk due to the extremely large cable runs.
There are many ways we can protect the Venus Project Cities just like there are many ways we could protect existing cities from this..
The problem is in this Monetary System, we dont have the money to do it, in the Venus Project and A Global resource based Economy we have the resources to do it so it would be done.
Most people don't know what caused the "Great Flood". Keeping in mind, that a few men, during the time of "The Council of Laodicea", that there would only be (66) books that ended up in the Bible, out of (700). The link below is a place to find find the [original] books, with two or threw different translator's, of each book.
The [dwarf] star. Many culture's tell's us of this event. For example, the Christian's tell of this time, is like a women that is ready to give birth. This time, therefore, is like the [dark orb], or the navel, or the birth canel, and that is because we are going threw the [center] of the galaxy. This cataclysm [dwarf] star, the Samarians called it [Nibiru], the Mayan's called it the Red Comet, and the Druid's called it the Frightener and destroyer, and said we would see it etc....
www.thereluctantmessenger.com
We do not know how active the sun will be in this period. The sun is awakening from an unprecedented period of quiet. If there was a "brown dwarf" passing through the solar system, we would not have had this period of quiet, and we would have seen perturbation of planetary orbits, including our own, that would have been noticed. The Nemesis theory is unfounded, propounded by a few end-of-the-world groups.
I am not saying that we should not take action to reasonably update and protect the electrical grid and electronics from a coronal mass ejection. What I am saying is that we do not need to be hysterical in our assessment of potential damages.
the "use half now" campaign on facebook is a forum for the sharing of ideas and techniques for reducing consumption of resources of all kinds:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/USE-HALF-NOW-CAMPAIGN/316473176497?ref=mf
my article "makers: DIY agent of social change" outlines ways we might all harness our innate aptitudes towards building a healthier society:
http://www.truth-out.org/makers-diy-agents-social-change59919?
and "the obvious observer" homestead blog documents my own experiments into lower impact living:
http://www.theobviousobserver.com