The consequences of a long-term loss of our power grid are of sufficient gravity that Congress commissioned a study of it a few years back: http://www.empcommission.org/ I spent some time working for a lab that was doing research into this phenomenon. One of the features of our energy infrastructure that most people don't realize is that it's multiply-interdependent with several other resources. For example, we need petroleum
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