Thirty Second Blackout: Difference between revisions

About 30 seconds later, the power comes back on and everything is back to normal. Of course, this isn't very realistic. As was evidenced by the Northeastern U.S. Blackout of 2003, when a blackout of that magnitude occurs it takes hours or days simply to restart all the systems, even if no elements of the power generation or distribution infrastructure were actually physically damaged. While brown-outs may be brief, they generally only affect a small area, and anything that actually disrupts power generation or transportation will take significantly longer. It takes several hours just to get three generating stations running, then there's synchronizing with other generating islands, and slowly switching in load being careful that you don't overload the generation you have and accidentally cause another system collapse. In real life, it can easily take more than a day to restart an electricity grid after the initial blackout.

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

== Live Action Television ==

 

* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' had a similar subversion to ''Evangelion'', but with 80% of the United States blacked out to power a cloaking device so that the Ori ship didn't destroy the SGC and take over Earth. In an alternate universe.

** The difference from a normal blackout is that the President warned the population to prepare.

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