Without electricity, life as we know it will end. But what could possibly interrupt the electricity in modern societies? If it's not an EMP attack, it will be the sun. Getting hit with by the Sun's massive solar flares that would literally burn the electrical transformers of the power grid and other electronics, is just a matter of time. According to NASA, there is a 12% chance that it will happen in this decade, and the decade after, and the one after that ... until it eventually does. But how you would be able to continue watching our channel with no electricity at thome, is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs

00:00 What Would Happen if American Grid Fails?
3:57 How EMP Works
5:19 Non-Nuclear EMP, Balloons & Delivery Systems
6:52 How damaging the EMP Actually is?
9:14 Why Large Transformers are the Achilles Heel of the American Electricity Grid
13:21 How Sun could produce EMP and Blackout the Earth
15:37 Why Grid Sabotage is a Real Frequently Occurring Threat
16:49 How Likely is the EMP Attack & the Great Illusion
18:31 Before You Run to the Grocery Store

Music:
Informal Parameters - Charles Holme
Serious Development - Blackout Memories
Upon Entering Another Realm - Brendon Moeller
Head Games - Max Anson
The Mole - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Cloak - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Checked In - Jay Varton
Danger Sun - Max Anson
Covert Affairs - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Thyone - Ben Elson
Bittersweet Lament - Max Anson
Inbound - Brendon Moeller

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