good luck sending anything else to orbit when all the sats are toast

@ManAnimal why 10 years if everything is already prepared and ready?

nope

10yrs are the projections of how long it would take to recover rom a Carrington type of event

the big transformers that are used in substations? that are a BITCH to build

6 mo each and only a few companies can do that work

so... that would effect ALL energy and technology. Why even think of it as a problem for space energy?

space would be even worse

we'd still need the energy companies for management of the energy

the effect would be orders of magnitude more damaging to any equip in orbit

so those wouldn't go away

and then you'd have to have the infrastructure to get thee energy to the planet

and distribute it

the last part is what the grid is for

it's mostly built already

just needs modifying

you cannot protect from a carrington level event

and we have no way of knowing what the worse the sun can throw at us

sure but you're asking a "what if" that also ruins what we have now

not a 'what if'; it will

without question

don't even bring it up when discussing future energy when it also effects the current system

it's a moot point

you just can't isolate the entire grid from that type of ionization

the future energy system would make things much worse if there were such an effect

if that futyre energy system involved the ionssphere

@ManAnimal there would obviously be failsafes, it's not like we're going to discuss the entire system right now

you can't build a failsafe for an inductor

problem with what if things.. is that we have no proof the something outside of our control wont come by and eliminate everything in our solar system. Just takes one rouge star or planet to ram through.. Or we hit something like a drifting black hole.

it's called a load shunt

we have no way to prevent the bubble universe from popping @ManAnimal better just end it now

that is a bit hyperbolic

so is your argument

one is a function of electrical power distribution

the other is a function of uncertainty itself

most climate change is hyperbolic .. The earth is over due for another ice age..

no let's continue with @ManAnimal 's moot point

can't change the current through an inductor instantaneously

try to figure out how we can prepare for the hypothetical 10 years

physics