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EMP does not have to man made to be a problem .

Solar flares and CMEs are the real concern for system wide damage that can set us back by years if not decades .

The last couple of years showed how fragile our supply chains are ,

A large scale event can damage critical equipment like transformers that take years to manufacture, merely restarting a stopped grid is extremely complex let alone a broken one



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