Reading last week that EMP on large scale is complete fiction.
If not coal, then there is nuclear, natural gas and hydroelectric, with hydroelectric being very localized and the most scarce. Nuclear poses numerous problems, particularly if there is a terrorist attack. Coal plants will not produce radioactive fallout or nuclear waste, for that matter.
The sun is 93 million miles away. (I rounded up, but you’d hardly notice. The Carrington event happened before we had much electricity. If it happened today, chances are most of the world would be left in the dark. https://www.history.com/news/a-perfect-solar-superstorm-the-1859-carrington-event
The nuclear attack scenarios during the cold war had both sides exploding high altitude air bursts in an overlapping pattern of three at a time. The idea was to keep the civilian world and much of the military world in the dark.
As an engineer, I did EMP testing on equipment my company produced for the military. It is very real. Most military equipment is supposedly hardened. But imagine a huge voltage spike hitting everything in your house. You’d smell the smoke.
One bomb probably wouldn’t do in the entire country. But a series of bombs would cause many secondary deaths due to plane and car crashes, people dying in hospitals and among people who require special medication. Also, the logistics of everyday life would be severely interrupted. This isn’t something like a hurricane where repair crews can drive in to the affected area and get everything up and running again. This is the New York blackout times 1,000.Then throw in practically every car that was running at the time of the attack.
It is. Nobody can do what's being claimed except possibly the U.S., and even then it's of limited impact (maybe a couple of states)--and I doubt we're going to EMP ourselves anytime soon.
Well then I suggest you keep reading, and find some credible sources. Or just go on, it won’t really matter.
Where ? Source Please.