Honest question here, I was watching Tim Pool's IRL podcast and at the timestamp they say that batteries would be fried during an EMP or Solar Flare? Is that true? Does having our transportation infrastructure even more dependent on transistors and batteries make disasters even more devastating. I think it's a fare question because 2020 showed us how fragile society is and in 2012 we narrowly missed a solar flare by about 9 days which would have knocked us back into the 19th century.
https://youtu.be/oF75INDIQos?t=4949https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_2012>The solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large and strong coronal mass ejection (CME) event that occurred on July 23 that year. It missed the Earth with a margin of approximately nine days, as the equator of the Sun rotates around its own axis with a period of about 25 days. The region that produced the outburst was thus not pointed directly towards the Earth at that time. The strength of the eruption was comparable to the 1859 Carrington event that caused damage to electrical equipment worldwide, which at that time consisted mostly of telegraph systems.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event>The storm caused strong auroral displays and wrought havoc with telegraph systems.>A solar storm of this magnitude occurring today would cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts, and damage due to extended outages of the electrical grid. The solar storm of 2012 was of similar magnitude, but it passed Earth's orbit without striking the planet, missing by nine days.Doesnt battery dependent infrastructure make us more vulnerable to adversary states like China? I'm thinking the Amish might actually be on to something or at least having back up redundancy like on airplanes, ie 737 "manual reversion."
Isn't the name "electric vehicle" false because they are still using chemical energy to power the motors? Wouldnt Algae based biofuel be superior?
