[dila813]

Not only that, but the largest most critical transformers have backups right at the power plant.

If you visit a major coal power plant you will see on the outside there is a transformer several stories tall sitting there without being hooked up. I know this is true for the 4 coal power plants I visited in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Maybe this is isolated but according to these plants operators, this is standard practice.

Because of the massive amount of capital tied up in the power plant, they can’t afford to be shut down due to a blown transformer.

[The Working Man]

Fear Sells. It works nearly every time.

[VanDeKoik]

It doesn’t matter.

When Nibiru crashes into us next year, after the polar reversal, we will be dead anyway.

[Errant]

Yep, and all you have to do is estimate how many transformers (both large and small) there are in the US. Once you have an estimate, divide this number by the total average number of transformers produced daily by each factory and you'll have a good idea of how long it will take to make enough transformers to replace the ones destroyed by a super solar flare or a multiple nuclear EMP attack.

Don't worry about the foreign manufacturers as they'll be too busy trying to meet their local demand. Besides, communications to countries overseas will be by mail delivered by sailboat.

[Vaquero]

interesting....I watch a lot of the History/Discovery/Science Channel shows on topics like Coronal Mass Ejections with interest...not because I fear death of all modern society....but because these things just interest me.

I never saw, on one of these programs, make reference to foreign made transformers, so I suppose these were on ‘news shows’ and not science programs.

from what I did pick up from these programs, was the fact that if we are hit with the BIG ONE....as the planet was in the 1850s we will be in a world of hurt, not just from damage to our power transmission systems but it could fry all of our satellites, rendering us, for a time, without our beloved cell phones, satellite TV, and internet.....

what do you know of these?

I find the whole thing interesting...

[Tijeras_Slim]

This post makes Transformers 2 look coherent.

Quite the achievement.

[stansblugrassgrl]

WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! oh, wait, what? That’s not going to kill us......this is??? WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!

I remember when I was a kid in the last seeing an article that talked about the sun blowing up. It was written in a breathless, urgent manner and I was really scared - until it said it would be happening for several million years. They also said the world would be depleted of all natural resources by now and that global cooling would kill us all.

I do not believe in global warming - specifically because I’m waiting for global cooling to kill us first. I think that this originates from the left, to keep people anxious and looking for someone to save them. For those of us who have been around and know the trick, we stay calm and don’t react.

That makes us dangerous because we can have a calming effect on those around us. But, they’ve taken care of that, too. It’s called Obamacare, which means WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE (geez. Can’t seem to win). ;-)

[Larry Lucido]

Your failure to use more allcaps and exclamation points disturbs me. How will we ever compete with the doomsayers without more exclamation point?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The media does the same thing regarding the hyped Global Warming Hoax.

NASA and NOAO has sections that work on fudging the data to make the story "scientific"!

[backwoods-engineer]

As an electrical engineer in the metering industry, it appears to me that your post makes a lot of sense. We may in fact have a large amount of foreign transformers here, but a) there are spares, and b) we do have companies who can rebuild them, big and small. You don’t just throw away a big transformer just because it has a little break in one of the windings. Solar flare/CME damage will vary, but yes, we probably could repair most of the damaged transformers. It would be good work to get for a lot of these companies.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

We're all gonna die!

(And most of us will do it in our 70s and 80s!)

PING!

[Condor51]

The last straw on my back, I can’t take it any more!!!!!!!

Put the Gun and the Mouse down and step sloooowly away from the keyboard.

We're not going to hurt you we only want to talk. And don't worry about these four big men in the White Coats. They're 'Transformer Experts' and are here to help you.

Ahhh, that's a good little Newbie, now back away some more, come on, slooooowly, a little more, come on ... there's that's good -- 'Grab Him Boys!'

If Transformers set you off.
Kindly stay away from the Gun Control Threads.
...............

[LibWhacker]

It is almost like the government wants to scare the people.

People aren't like horses. You can't put shackles on a panicked horse. But it's the best time to shackle human beings; they just curl up in a ball and lay there and let you put them in chains.