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There's always a bigger power switch upstream somewhere
No
Cool!
But it would be extremely cool if the entire world's all power grids could be switched off with a button
You just need a large enough geomagnetic storm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
There's always a bigger power switch upstream somewhere.
So the storm is the switch?