What If Electricity Went Out Everywhere (Minute by Minute)
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- What if the entire world lost power? How long would we survive? You can't miss today's insane new story that breaks down the collapse of society if suddenly everywhere across the globe lost electricity all at once!
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But if the traffic lights go out, we’re supposed to treat is as an all way stop right? At least where I’m from
That's right but you know how many crazy people drive lol
That would be the single most important thing to think about
In my country, the police is at intersections with traffic lights, so if the traffic lights go out, they take over and direct the traffic
No. That's the silliest thing I've heard in a minute! If the traffic signals stop working, you're supposed to maintain speed until you get about 200 ft. from the intersection, then close your eyes tight and floor it. Don't forget to hope for the best. If someone hits you, it's their fault so never, by any means, take responsibility or admit fault.
Not when panic sets in. Do whatever you want at that point. I definitely wouldn't be following the road laws in a situation where everybody's just going nuts. That'd be my chance to drive like I want to
I think it would be more accurate if minutes were replaced with hours. How would people even know this was a global outage? They’d talk to their neighbors, and their neighbors’ neighbors, but it would take a long time to figure out it was a global thing. I’d guess most people wouldn’t even start to panic until several hours at least.
We won't be able to play genshin anymore if electricity went out!!
@@cosmictrainer2919 pretty sure that's a good thing
Well you should have a phone net for abput 20 minutes, at least where I live, so if you call someone in a different part of the country you can find out that there power is out as well and that can´t be good. If you miss that window, then you have to find out the old fashioned way, yes.
@@SirMarshalHaig I understand where you're coming from.
Everyone will notice clocks stoping as it has batteries.....
I’ve been in many power-outages mostly from hurricanes but simple flooding and one snowstorm. People did not panic nor turn on each other. In fact they were often nicer and more helpful than normal. Because so many people needed help folks who could went out and looked for people to help. “Rednecks” unloaded their boats then used them to go down the streets, house by house, bringing people out! Folks without boats used what they had to evacuate old ladies and invalids with baby pools or big wash tubs. Since “it would go bad anyway” everyone with a freezer started cooking and giving or sending food away! Deer steaks, sausage, sea fish and sometimes vegetables too! It felt very good to see strangers come together just because they could!
Rural areas would likely fare better, as the people are smarter and more self-reliable. Evil Democrat ruled areas, not so much.
Initially, people will help each other. But as time passes things will turn not for the good as reality comes true.
You obviously do not live in or near an inner city.
That was nice.
This is what would happen in a society of smart, sane people. Hopefully that is the society we live in.
In big cities this may happen but I think a lot of people would just treat it as a common black out and it would take days for chaos to happen
Probably quicker due to the faulty traffic lights and computers everywhere shutting down
Thank you, I’m watching this thinking wtf kind of society acts this way!?
Depends
If the mayor isn’t worthless he’d be able to organize workers
@@Gurra88 most essential hospitals and businesses have backup generators.
I like what you had to say, but, I recon it would only take 1 day. Reasons:
No ATMs/cash out.
No mobile phone internet and radio towers.
No long range communications.
It would take alot longer the 60 mins like the concept he said, but it would be 1 day at the most for things to go up and wrong in my opinion
I live in a country where we have experienced countrywide blackouts, I would like to confirm that no such chaos were experienced.
hii ni video ya first-world nations. villages mingi in my region hata haziko connected to electricity
@@janejustin1788 wut
@@TomorrowWeLive ?????
Yeah, and so have I. I live in the country, and during severe storms we lose power quite often. Nobody panics. My home is hybrid solar (refrigerators, hot water heater, climate control and stove are all solar) and electricity (lights). I have those tap-on battery operated lights for emergencies. I keep plenty of batteries for my tap-ons. I have horses, so my car could sit idle with a full tank. I'd ride one of my horses to get around. The outages we have don't affect me. As long as the sun continues to shine, I will always have some power. (Jan Griffiths).
Likewise, 90% of our country's electricity is from private generators and solar power, we're pretty much used to blackouts here
I find it highly unlikely that this much chaos would break out form a mere 60 minutes of no electricity.
People are used to the power occasionally going out for hours at a time. Plus people would have no way to know that it is a global power-outage so there would be no reason for most people to panic. I would give it at least 24 hours before people start looting gas stations lol
You're 100% correct. A large portion of the northeastern US lost power, in some places for as long as 4 days, back in 2003 and there was nothing like this.
Haven't you heard of the corna mass ejection
@@Arauge1981 thats nothing like this though
I live by Buffalo, NY and our power goes out at least one or two days a year.
@Buttermilk:) Did 90% of your household die?
During the 70's we had the catastrophe movies. Today we have the Infographics Show.
The second my fan goes off, I'd be awake.
Same!
I’m from Puerto Rico and we spent months without power when hurricane Maria hit us. We ended helping each other up to survive instead of rioting.
In Puerto Rico you all knew that help was coming and you were getting aid. You knew the issue would eventually be fixed even if it took months. In this scenario, yes people wouldn't go so crazy as quickly as this video makes it seem but when people see that the power is not coming back and that this isn't just a normal blackout people won't react the same.
@@thehindenburg3402a phycological difference in knowing that help is eventually coming versus silence and rumors
@@thehindenburg3402they didn’t know because you can’t trust YTs word or the US government
Yeah here in America it’s different
Because they are not internet and cable addicts 📺📱❌️
Research has actually shown that people drive more safely when traffic lights are out, because they pay closer attention to traffic.
Not only that, no working stop light are treated as stop signs.
Because they won't drive at all
Also long term? Say, a week, a month?
I’d say it’s a bit different when all of the traffic lights go out at once. As opposed to no traffic lights being expected or the normality.
Yeah I agree that first part didn’t make sense to me either
What causes this sudden lack of electricity defines the effects. Most importantly, are electricity generators that weren't on at the time affected and was most of the energy infrastructure destroyed.
As an Energy Engineering student, I find these points the most impactful.
Most important places have diesel back up generators and at least in Finland, coal plants could be activated in an emergency.
I personally would hop into my car and drive to our family's summer cottage. During the winter it'd be a little cold, but when electric can be harnessed with both diesel and solar power and heating is done with propane and firewood, I'd be fine for the next 2 months. After those months, food would run out, in which case I hope to have found more food somewhere. Getting to the summer would mean survival, as the place is mostly self sufficient as long as food grows.
Propane and diesel would last for a few years, so unless we can find more, running out of these would force us to leave.
Seems like hour by hour would be way more accurate for this episode. Complete grid shutdowns happen all the time where I live and I have never experienced any chaos such as this. Many people also have solar attached to their homes and would experience almost no difference other than the fact that they would not be able to travel or buy things at a grocery store. Just keep food storage and you will be fine.
I think it also heavily depends on where you live I was reading an article recently about in 2015 how the 114th Congress did a sit down and talked about the effects of the grid going out across the US and they talked about how absolutely devastating it would be and they used an example from New York I think it was several years ago or back in the 90s I really don’t remember when they said this happened basically all of the power went Out across Manhattan and basically Looting started almost immediately and this was only a single day they had 3000 Arrests I would say if you’re in a smaller localized community it’s Much less likely to see that kind of activity versus the big cities
I think it would be more accurate if minutes were replaced with hours. How would people even know this was a global outage? They’d talk to their neighbors, and their neighbors’ neighbors, but it would take a long time to figure out it was a global thing. I’d guess most people wouldn’t even start to panic until several hours at least.
You are comparing a planned procedure, to one that is NOT, that's the difference....but I agree, hours is probably more accurate....by the way ever experienced Facebpok or Twitter going down, imagine when ppl can't access those site AT ALL....Trust me you will have full blown panic!
The difference you're missing is a localized blackout versus a global blackout. Things can still be coordinated to keep order if it's localized.
Most Solar installtions need Grid power to sync their Frequency unless you have an installation that supports a standalone mode. Even then you need Batteries and still need to rely on many Public infrastructurs.
I’d like to bring something to light about generators in hospitals: all hospitals in the US are required to have backup generators. In addition, they are tested weekly, monthly, and annually and are REQUIRED to come on within 10 seconds of loosing power, they are also required to have 96 hours worth of fuel on hand to sustain 80% of their load (depending on how large the generator is, it could last longer) and most larger hospitals have thousands of gallons off site for emergencies. I work in an engineering department for a hospital, the last one I worked at was a level 1 trauma center with 650 beds and 30 operating rooms. We had enough generator power to supply the whole city if need be.
same situation in belgium, every hospital needs a minimum of 3 generators that have to be capable of supplying enoph elektricity on there own. they are running sequential where 1 is always on stand-bye, 1 is down ready to be started and 1 is down for maintainance. this state is cycled daily aswel to have to wear and tear of the generators equal
They might have 7 days of diesel to run them.
Generators on Natgas will go offline within hours as pressure drops.
When I worked on them,each room had a special outlet that was for important equipment to be automatically on the generator the sec the power goes out. However,this is all assuming that a worldwide blackout is not caused by an EMP. In that chance,no generators,no cell phone power,no lithium battery power.
Yeah I know, the vid makes it look like somebody from maintenance has to go start the generators. Such BS. I took care of generators protecting critical infrastructure for a major city. Every communication tower was backed up with a 150 KW generator, Police headquarters had two, 1 Megawatt generators that were powered by 16 cylinder Detroit diesels rated at 1500 HP. If you stood next to them when they went under load they were so loud they made your teeth itch
@@joecummings1260 and they all have an automatic switch to knows when the primary power goes off or back on.
Although this was interesting (albeit a bit over dramatized), you should really make a video on what would happen within 30 days with no power. This is the real deal, where society completely breaks down. German author Marc Elsberg wrote a pretty good and well informed book about that thought called 'Blackout'. Would love to see that video one day.
I was about to type that.
Except for Africa, just a few months ago my parents back home told be the grid was shut down for 4 weeks for maintenance (power is still about 12 hours a day on a norm without maintenance)
Unless the laws of physics suddenly change, there will always be the possibility to find the fault and restore the power.
Different is the story if the Sun blasts his most powerful CME (Coronal Mass Ejection), which would fry all semiconductor devices around the planet, transporting the world overnight back to 1948. No more instantaneous money transfers, LED lights, portable phones and radios, satellites and any sort of computer - for a decade or two. Only vacuum tubes would remain functional after the event.
This CME scenario is a real possibility, albeit it has a low probability of happening, or of ending civilization on Earth...
Like I said I would just live off the land not really hard
Well the fact is its aktualy posible and biger posiblity than an zombie apocalypse becuse we cant aktualy predict the sun and if an big solarflare hapens were friked
I remember the city wide blackout in NY when I was a kid. All people did was hangout outside. Light some candles for visibility. Light up some grills and cooked meats that were gonna go bad.
We all just had a neighborhood wide cookout. As far as traffic went. People naturally just treated any intersection as a stop sign until police showed up to direct traffic.
I don't think full blown panic would set in until at least a few days of no electricity. And there's no indication of when it'll be restored.
I'd love to see this become a series like the "I survived a nuclear war" series and see how people would deal with no electricity at all, permanently.
you can be sure that global population will plummet quite considerably
Permanently?
I highly doubt this much chaos would happen in the first 60 minutes. Unless everyone instantly knew for certain that this outage was permanent, I imagine people would give it a day or two at least to wait it out. I think it would take several days before this level of panic and destruction.
Right and if it is within a hour or 2 mass panic starts would be if the military starts mobilizing within the first couple of hours or something etc
And without radio (and why are the batteries in the emergency lights not working while cell phones are unscathed?) or cell phones there is no communication to spread the panic.
yea this is one of his most dumb videos for sure... maybe in the first week you could make a case for this. But in the first hour it would just be a normal blackout to everyone
Absolutely. Just compare it with any other Blackout you experienced. If it also affects cellphone service, it could be global too, you won´t see a difference.
Last Year there was a blackout for several Hours in my Hometown. Generators went on immediately. The Hospital did close its emergency room though. There wasn´t a single traffic accident. When you see that the traffic light is off, you don´t just continue to drive as usual ...
Radar systems and time zones would be effected, leaving planes flying in the dark and 60 minutes is more than enough for a catastrophe.
Even if its during the day, people will realize there's no electricity because the WIFI will stop working.
People will realize there’s no electricity because everyone’s mobile data will stop working
I'm someone who works from home, if there's even a power surge near me, i notice 😵💫 happened twice the other day, such a paaain
I think the planes flying in dark with no radar systems or timezones would be the most dangerous in the first 60 minutes, this would potentially make a lot of planes crash.
I see what happened here, the electrons are on strike for better working conditions.
Nah, i bet it'd be less catastrophic than this. I lived in South Aus in one of its worst blackouts - for 4 days. We were all fine and very little went wrong.
As someone who lives in an area that loose electricity for weeks at a time after a storm. The cell phone towers have in our area have battery backup and generators that will generally will work for a week. Amateur HAM radio operators routinely communicate with the ISS with their own radios, most of which can work on battery power. Gas stations have their own generators and before that, people would bring their personal generators to power the fuel pumps at gas stations. Most people have enough food in their homes for a week or two. Things will be fairly calm until the food runs out.
Same happened with me, all electricity went out because of a hurricane a few years ago, tv, service, nothing besides radios and cars, took over a month for it to come back and I do not think after 5 minutes everybody would go berserk and start looting stores
bro where do you live lol
@@InfinityDz I live in south Louisiana. We have gotten hurricanes that knock out infrastructure that takes weeks or months to repair.
HAM radio won't work after a massive solar flair. A couple weeks ago Florida had a small flair and it shut off radio communication during hurricane evacuation
Water would be the issue here. The wells are 400 ft deep. The nearest surface fresh water source is several miles away.
Power failures happen locally at times and NOTHING like all the hyperbole of elevators falling/cars not stoping at intersections happens. Almost EVERYONE has had their power go out for an hour or more in a city, town or neighborhood and they were inconvenienced at most.
U need to think of powers plants and more stuff like that what will explode
Two different situations bub
There talking about a mass outage, we never had that happen. You must still be young, you will see one day, that not everyone is in the same situation, my mom is on oxygen, yea she has portable canisters, but they don’t last long. Without electricity she wouldn’t last more then a day. Well at-least people like her, I have generators, but not everyone does..
If we’re talking about solar flares, it’d be way worse than oops where’d my power go 😐
They meant all electronic devices, not just the power grids.
The fact that scientists could be saying that Wi-Fi will go out for months😂
Perfect timing for it to show up on my feed
People lived without power for centuries. We can do it again if we need to.
It’s crazy to think that here In South Africa we have something called load shedding and basically we have periods in the day where the power goes out and due to that many businesses and facilities have planned for that.
yea, I bet whoever wrote this drivel was one of those kids who bragged about their IQ score in highschool.
And we call this mess home😂
Not crazy.
We in Venezuela have done that for most of the 2010's (we call it rationing (racionamiento))
And many places in the world have schedules for electricity cutouts.
We call them rolling blackouts in the United States, California gets regularly in the summer from what I understand. I live in a more stable state.
There talking about doing it in the United States because it's very likely in the somewhat near future that demand will surpass supply and none of the providers have any clue how they will meet it... at the very least we could see throttles during peak hours
This is a weird scenario how they talk about everything falling apart in an hour. I live in Michigan and not that poor of an area and we have lost electricity for 4 to 5 days a couple times in my life. Everyone around here just has backup heating and knows how to deal with not having electricity for at least a couple days so I'm thinking a lot of these scenarios is not going to happen until that point. The first day would probably not be that crazy
Same, I live in Minnesota and have lost electricity for a couple days in the middle of winter. We all made it through just fine
They're talking about 'IF' and what if it's a global blackout ... Just a theory maybe, or next 'oubreak' most probably.
An isolated blackout is a lot different than the worldwide one
@@michaelsurratt1864 agreed...
Exactly, they're really blowing things outve proportion in this video.
I live in the Philippines. Electricity often goes out. Often for hours, sometimes for up to 12 hours, rarely longer. Around Christmas 2021, we (large parts of central Visayas) were hit by a typhoon and we didn't have electricity for 26 days.
Since then, I have installed a solar power plant and always have power, even of the grid goes down.
Truth is, sure, a lot of inconvenience, but logistics would soon be operating again, since those systems can run on low power equipment.
I was curious about the gas pump thing, and it actually turns out that I learned two things that weren't mentioned in the video. A lot of gas stations are actually required to have backup generators or similar provisions because of past disaster situations like hurricanes where the scenario he just described unfolded. The other thing is that even though the electrical pump wouldn't work, there is actually a hole in the tanks where a manual pump could be attached and pump the gas out if needed. I mean, if you think about it, it wouldn't be possible for thieves (especially in the old days using old-timer methods) to siphon gasoline from other people's cars if there weren't ways to pump gasoline without electric pumps. The reason why this is important is because a lot of portable generators are powered by gasoline, not just cars. If they can find a way to keep the gasoline flowing, then that potentially means at the very least cars and portable generators will keep working even if they can't get the grid back online, which really improves the situation significantly, although it is still very bad. With regards to radio, while you mention the big broadcasters not having power, you seemingly forgot about ham and CB radio... which can in fact transmit using non-grid based power, and there are licensed ham operators who are actually are trained to coordinate to try and relay information in the event of mains power going down in a large area. So, depending on the country, there is at least a possibility that mains power going down would not necessarily force people all the way back to the 1800s, but perhaps result in a lot of analog and mechanical technology from prior to 1980 or so getting used to keep things going, and a lot of people horrified at how useless a lot of newer stuff is without the Internet, compared with how robust the older analog stuff is.
Your timeline is too compressed. It would take about 72 hours for the water & sewer systems to breakdown due to lack of power. Also, building code requires that emergency lighting be able to keep hallways lit for 90 minutes, so just about every "nite-light" in a multistory building has a battery inside of it waiting for a power failure. Also, these are known problems, many cell towers, most hospitals and every police department has back up power of some sort. Cell towers will work for hours, at least; hospitals for days without issues. Municipal communications *always* have power failure protocols, even if that just means that the Chief of Police is sitting in a squad car with a mobile transceiver. This assessment is overly pessimistic.
Folks will panic within a few hours especially if its like late afternoon.
@@L1berty1776 no one I know would be panicking after 4 days. I've been in extended power failures, and usually there is a lot of backyard grilling in the first 24 hours, if the weather permits it, because most people would be yather share what is in their fridge than let it rot.
Not "pessimistic", Hollywood Fiction(tm) (and not even good hollywood.)
I know, planes emergency landing, Everything we know that has batteries don’t run on batteries. People panicking right away.
At least we know the worst case scenarios.
I'm confused, in this scenario, do batteries work or not? If not, then cars wouldn't be running, they need spark plugs, hospital generators can go for days (blackouts happen), planes would fall out of the sky, etc. If batteries work, electric cars wouldn't immediately stop. Gotta do your research better, guys.
Exactly, if it was an EMP event most (all modern) vehicles wouldn't work. Also most planes can glide, not very helpful over the ocean though
@@jeremyjeaurond depends if they have manual or fly-by-wire controls. I think most modern passenger planes would be SOL, but some might have mechanical backup controls. Either way, not fun.
@@robertshindeliii very true, forgot about fly by wire. Either way most navigation systems would be useless as well as landing instrumentation and VOR
If think batteries work, where did they say that cars suddenly stop?
@@MDG-mykys 2:10, they said 5 minutes after all electricity goes out vehicles powered by electricity come to a stop. Either batteries work, or they don't.
I lived through the east coast blackout of 2003. There wasnt much panic but we had a radio to listen to and get news from. Everyone came outside and got to know eachother better and helped eachother. Stay stocked up on water and canned food because our grid is very fragile and power companies aren't required to protect it. It wouldn't take much for a few terriosts to destroy the right electrical equipment to turn the power out for months.
Me as a South African surviving two days without electricity
7:44 I was on the island of St. Maarten for both of the strongest hurricanes on record (Hurricane Irma and Maria, both a category 5+) and when it was finally over and the skies were clear, I was able to see the Milky Way as there was very little to no electricity anywhere on the island, so there was no light pollution and I must say, you can't put into words how beautiful it is. I was mesmerized by the sight of it to the point that I was upset a week later when the electricity came back and I couldn't see the Milky Way anymore
Same happened in Puerto Rico.
I was up in Canada years ago, away from all light pollution and I could see that Mars is actually red and also the Milky Way. Talk about awesome!!!
Dang I see the stars, milky way etc. Every night unless it's cloudy.
I've seen it before too. So many colors. So much beauty. Words cannot describe the sheer scale and immense beauty that lies above us in the stars. I had never seen so many colors in my life before. I didn't have my glasses on so I didn't really get to see everything clearly but I didn't need to; it was just majestically beautiful. So so beautiful. I hope I will get to see that again one day but hopefully not in a scenario like yours or the ones suggested in this video.
saw that sky in the Deserts of Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.
So wrong--you are saying within the first few minutes of the power going out millions of baby’s will be born with nurses holding cell phones for lights. Hospitals have generators that run for more then 4 hours plus emergency lights would come on for hours. Stuff like this wouldn’t happen unless the power was off for months. We had a blackout for 8 days and our hospital didn’t loss anyone
Does emp from nukes effect generators?
than *
Another outbreak?
@@Zaiden. yup...
@@gvcjbf1266 an emp fries running electronics there is a 5050 chance that after an emp a standard mechanical generator will run however most modern generators relief heavily on capacitors and resistors which would blow or fuse as there is a chance the emp will overcharge the circuits on the generators and most likely killing any chance of automatic backup systems kicking in. This doesn't mean that they can't be manually started I know that here in nz all hospitals have 3 types of emergency generators mechanical electrical and manual. 2 of which are designed to be emp proof. But the use of power is nothing as there is a good chance that wiring in the walls would be fused depending on distance from emp and type of emp.
I think a big factor of how bad things get also depends on where you live. A derecho took out power around here for 2 weeks. This is the Midwest. Despite going a long time without basic electricity, there were no riots. Everyone just went to work again after a few days and everyone either grilled out or ate what they had. Food drives were setup. Businesses were still able to get back on top of things again very quickly and while there was some chaos at first, everyone seemed to quickly adapt. Mind you, lots of backup generators were used and due to powerful storms in the past, it is possible our infrastructure had a slightly easier time. I think if something were to fry everything the yes different story but again, there are a lot of things to consider is all. I think the smaller towns would have an easier time while the bigger cities would have something more like what you see happening in this video.
Something like this happened here in Italy in 2003. At 3,30 am the whole of the country, with the sole exception of Sardinia island, went into a blackout. The reason was identified as the fall of a tree in Switzerland, at 3:01 in the morning, which would have damaged some power lines to which Italy and the Swiss state are connected (so much so that the phenomenon partially affected Slovenia as well), and the load was distributed on the remaining lines, which in turn found themselves overloaded and shut down. Electricity was restored not any sooner than 9 am in the northern part of the country, while the central and southern part had to wait longer, like mid/late afternoon or early evening. Still it didn't cause any major accident, the worst of which being people being stuck in elevators, trains or subways, and general problems with trasportations. I remember it quite vividly as I was out with friends, I was in the main square of town and I saw the starriest sky of my life on that occasion.
Something to consider: A world-wide loss of the power grid could only be caused by a massive Solar Flare/Coronal Mass Ejection. Either of those events would not only fry the power grid, it would also fry the electronics in vehicles such as cars and jet planes.
They did bring up a world-wide cyber attack, but even they stated that seemed unrealistic. I also expect electric generation in many developing countries has no connection to the internet.
Also, apparently we would have a 12-24 hour warning of a CME impact. (The part that would do the damage to electric systems travels much slower than the speed of light).
Aircraft with fried electronics would be largely unaffected unless they use fly by wire controls (so pretty much all Airbus planes and some of the newer Boeing planes would basically fall out of the sky due to their flight controls being disabled)
The rest would continue to fly and land as normal using standby instruments
Yeah. But he didn't mention that.
And cell phones!
also the fact that 90% of people dying in the US before we rebuilt the grids is a bit of a FAR FAR stretch
1 hour after power out:
"Ok, start burning the money."
Maybe after several months but cmon.
Maybe it's an inside joke about inflation!
those people who live with their faces in front of their smartphones would be the first ones to go crazy because they can't get their social media fix every few minutes.
Our house was built in 1915. It has a large lot, suitable for growing food, and a creek bed where we could dig a well. There was a outhouse here in 1915 too. The house itself has high ceilings and large windows to cope with hot weather, and two fireplaces for heat. With a little bit of warning, we could prep for survival.
While stationed in Afghanistan in 06-07 it was so dark you could see every star in the sky, every night you could make a wish on a star.
Having went through the 2003 blackout. Everything was pretty peaceful. Neighborhood stores even gave away refrigerated and frozen foods like crazy because they knew they wouldn't be able to keep them long. This is absolute panic that would likely never happen in this way
Was that blackout worldwide? Did they think it's was going be an endless blackout?
Ah, I remember that one!
I was in the middle of listening to a CD when it just stopped!
Yep, I lived thru the 2003 blackout in northern Ohio. We had a big generator, but we didn't have a large amount of gasoline. The power was only out for about 14 hours. But it was very exciting. We now keep about 20 gallons of ethanol free gasoline stored just for that type of emergency. Now I also have many deepcycle batteries, and solar panels to help ease the work load of the generator. I find it fun to prepare for disasters.
@@MDG-mykys Why the f*ck would 'worldwide' change anything? People live locally
@@pyropulseIXXI I think it matters quite a bit
Simple answer is to produce your own electricity. Change all your equipment to low wattage and learn to grow your own food.
Hospitals are required to have backup generators that kick in instantly and provide power to the vital systems. You will notice the red outlets.
In regards to lifts, or elevators, they're balanced so the counterweight is heavier than an empty or lightly-occupied car, so if the brakes were to fail on a power cut, they would actually go up, not down if below that load, and they would have the resistance of the machinery above (multiple cables passed over a large capstan connected to a motor that will be acting like a brake) to slow any uncontrolled ascent or descent so wouldn't be a sudden trip (assuming any at all) to their doom, unlike in the very unlikely event of a snapped cable...
Some also have breaks that will stop at the nearest floor.
Elevators in the modern world have numerous safeties to prevent a "fall of doom". Even if all those fail and the car does plummet to the bottom, there's arresting gear in the "pit" designed to prevent a fatal crash. It won't be fun, and there will be broken bones, but you won't be dead. (I'm sure there are videos of such tests on YT.) Just ask the Mythbusters how much work it was to make an elevator fall.
It’s actually kind of funny how many wrong things or misunderstandings this page has… on many topics. Still entertaining though.
in a elevator near us u just stop and nothing happens lol
@@Heliogabalus873
What happened to “know your role”?
Why even speak…if only 50% is accurate?
“At least they tried”?!?!
“At least SOME people won’t be easily influenced and alter their opinions and perceptions of reality.”?!?!
Are those your arguments?
Yeah…no.
Not sure where you’ve been the last 20 years…but false information and inaccurate indignant mentality is a MAJOR detriment to our ENTIRE PLANET!!!
Just ask those in Russia and Ukraine.
With inaccuracies and false information this channel is no different than the Kardashians. It’s all BS, and rhetoric…in order to get the simple folk all work up and feel “in the know”.
Altruistic intentions don’t automatically equate to successful outcomes.
There is just so much wrong with this video. I'll accept the magical power outage around the world, but not really if generators and batteries are still working. Would power grids with battery backups still work temporarily? Hospitals cannot run out of power, as they have backup generators that kick in instantly. Also people know what to do at intersections when the power goes out, it becomes a four-way stop.
Stuff like this makes the entire channel have less credibility
There is no utility sized battery backups for power grids. There are some new battery technologies that are being implemented on power grids but they aren't there to power the whole grid and wouldn't last very long. Also all backup generators will only work as long as the motors have gas. So once they run out that's it. Most backup systems are only designed to run for 8-12 hours, so if it's anything over a day or two those will go down as well.
and solar - localized? which would at least would let some households to operate longer - or entire building blocks.
even if all powerplants died… but then again we allowed generators to run hospitals longer yet not for nuclear powerplants … riight.
and not to mention they would not go kaboom (like a bomb) but meltdown happens like in chernobil…
sooooo many things wrong with this one … makes you wonder what happened to the team making great content :)
The problem is if earth gets hit by an x flare or a strong enough emp is detonated, the grid will be fried for years and most electronics, cars, trains etc etc are dead. This is a real threat. There have been bills to harden the grid to prevent this that would only cost $2billion. That's not alot in terms of federal spending, but they won't pass these bills...very troubling.
This has been one of the most haphazard Infographics videos I've viewed, with numerous contradictions. Example: People's cars and portable electronics work, but government leaders can't contact each other.
In 2002 or 2003 we lost all power for nearly a week in southern Ontario in Canada. Some of this happened, but we clearly survived.
Where I live, it would take at least 2 days for panic to set in.
Where i live power outages happen very often, nothing ever happened, sometimes half of my country was out for days, and never was there any accident
Do ppl still have cell phones working? Cause I’d imagine it lets ppl find out instantly why the power is out. That calms everyone down a lot. If all power goes out AND there’s no service to find out at info or anything? I bet 24 hrs for it to go nuts. But definitely not 60 min
For nuclear reactors, they all have emergency power generators to keep the systems on, and another thing you forgot, is emergency coolant. Basically a huge water tank, ready to be used in the case core temperatures get higher than they should.
How does a nuclear reactor stop producing electricity without any damage? I highly doubt they'll have a problem just because of a power grid problem.
Your right. All nuclear plants have back up generators and for heaven’s sake the plant is producing electricity which it can draw off. Also, the plant can induce its control rods to stop the nuclear process. About the only long term issue I can see is if the fuel rods were close to being spent and thus are “hot” in temperature. This means the spent fuel rods needs to have water circulation around them that is being cooled like being in a spent fuel rod pool. The governments of each nation with nuclear plants would have to figure out a way to bring water to them and keep cool all spent nuclear fuel rod pools and those mostly spent in some plants.
This is not an impossible situation. 🤔
@@spooderdoggy wrong. all power plants rely on power from other plants to run internal stuff.
@@tiamatthedragon6758 So, when a nuke plant is running normally it only uses electricity from another power plant form the outside to run it and none it produces? Give me a break. It uses electricity from the outside only when the plant is offline.
The reactors have emergency generators, but are powered by diesel generators, which need diesel fuel to run. Eventually that will run out.
There's no need to panic, but we're also out of coffee. Ok panic!
Some gas stations, public buildings, and homes have solar panels and backup generators. Love the video.
Panic doesn't set in in the first 60 minutes, first few days will be moderately normal, but will quickly degrade after that. And, how are all the cell phones still working if something knocked out all the power, cells would be dead too.
They can still work out as flashlights cause it’s running on a battery
@@Lamon2xxx depends on how strong the EMP is will determine if your cell phone works or not.
@@Lamon2xxx but he said electric cars would stop. Same battery tech…
@@TH-cam2021FM it's not
Considering ten seconds in he mentions it's gone out around the world, it's logical to assume this 60 minutes begins at the actual event start. Snarky comments get you nowhere
02:40... emergency lights are not tied directly into the grid for this exact reason. They are backed up by internal batteries with a 24 to 48-hour lifespan before draining.
(yes, as an engineer who built most of the major buildings in Reno, Lake Tahoe and Parts of Vegas in Nevada over the last 30 years I will be marking timestamps and leaving comments)
Absolutely correct. Emergency lighting systems in the UK must have a minimum of 3 hours of back up power with internal battery packs
@@suttonpackbacker They are meant to yes. However emergency lights are barely every maintained properly or replaced and I’ve come across sites with 10/100 working on a flick test let alone a 3 hour discharge 😂
@@jazy65 you're not wrong mate
@@suttonpackbacker All budgets and that. They’ll have a huge budget for other random things though
@@suttonpackbacker yes but if the battery was 3 hours when installed and it was never touched for 20 years, what are the chances it will work?
minutes is to less for such consequences... You people never experience a blackout ? In my country is not common but it happens once in a while, and nobody is loosing their mind
Apparently the infographics show has never heard of batteries or generators. Subways and exits all have emergency lights that run on batteries.
or you know we will all do what we normally do when electricity goes out
ya feel this would be more 1-2 days after or something or some time that is more then normal
Go fishing ?
In my country (Belgium) if there was a blackout for couple of hours, people don’t panic and life just goes on without electricity.
MISTAKE! When stating about subways, it was said that "emergency lights are most likely connected to the grid and so ppl would have to feel the way out" not true. All emergency lights have battery backups. Not to mention the false statement about hospitals because with power, all hospitals have generators!
Sounds like just trying to scare ppl.
I live in a country where there was a country-wide blackout for 2 days, and nothing of this happened anywhere, people were calm and even helped their fellow neighbours. There were even gas stations who used pump systems with backup generators and donated the gas to hospitals during this time to ensure people wouldn't die.
Even more, we didn't know this was a country-wide blackout until a day later, and only because a veteran with a radio caught a signal from a neighbour country, were they told that our government was already working on fixing the problem.
ok but imagine this for months. grid down not for one day but for months or even years. chaos would unfold
I live in the NYC area, when Sandy hit I was out of electricity for 3 weeks and what I saw was amazing. I’m in telecommunications and for the first time I saw the community come together and help one another. I left my wife and newborn at home with my generator and new solar system to go get the internet back up in my area. Gas was short and while there was some strife after a couple weeks on line for gas I thought it brought out the best in our country in a lot of ways. I have more faith in this area of the country that we would prevail from something of this magnitude. That being said I like some of the videos 😂
Being nice would only last so long.... Once food and water get scarce,it would be every man for himself.
That's astoundingly normal- in disasters in WEIRD countries, people generally do come together.
Planners fear looting and chaos, but alarmingly often the relief agencies do a worse job than the locals themselves.
same with the Gulf Coast after that New Orleans Hurricane
Excellent insights-thank you! 🙏
Hierarchy of modern survival:
1. Water (stockpile in glass containers)
2. Electricity (back-up generator with safely stockpiled propane)
3. Food (vacuum-sealed survival food stockpile)
4. Shelter (Your home)
5. Firearms (stockpiled ammunition)
Here's the flaw in what you're saying this was probably just three weeks right not even a month the thing is it would be nice if we had data of over the course of one year you really see how things would really Shape Up what major experience probably great was because people have faith that eventually yes the lights will come back on it's just you just got to get through less than a month I guess in your perspective but if people were knowingly if they were acknowledged if they knew that it would never come back on people's helpfulness probably would change you never know
This video doesn't really consider generators. Most important buildings and many residential places will have power at least for a little while.
All those off the grid people would be loving this.
I don’t think anything would happen until after everyone figured out what’s going on.
How is everyone going to figure out what going on?
@Christopher phone lines do not need power in theory, they only need a signal booster to travel far which runs on electricity.
As for international communications, every government would be able to fall back to shortwave radio. For that matter, many 2nd world nations still use shortwave broadcasting to distribute information (and propaganda); and it takes amazingly little power to get a AM shortwave station broadcasting, and only batteries for the public to receive.
Yeah this alone is making me question the credibility of the infographics show...
It all depends on what caused the blackout.
technically you dont even ned batteries to recieve, but it will be very quiet and you need a speaker capable of doing analog (which most modern ones arent anymore)
Within seconds, the entire population would go f*cking berserk as their cellphones stopped working.
From my experience. In 2018 hurricane maria hit puerto rico so bad and i was there. We were months without electricity through the whole island we just used generators for cooking be we still managed to it it was kind of hard of all lives lost in the hospital due to lack of electricity but everyone was cooperative during the time.
I remember back in high school, when there was a power outage in the whole country for 17 hours. People went nuts, my father used to be an engineer for the Indian Railways at that time, and we were so worried about him. Phones weren't working, people were happy at first, but after a couple of hours, we were completely cut off. Thank God, there were no looting or vandalism. As soon as the power was back on after 17 hours of outage, the train carrying my father was back running. We were so relieved when we saw my father in front of us.
In South Africa we get this thing called load shedding. Our power company is really bad so they can’t generate enough power so they turn it off for hours a day. It actually doesn’t change much we all just hate the company.
My family and I went without power for 4 days. It was during a severe ice storm in the early 90’s. No cell phones and landline phones were down too. There was no way to know if it was localized to our town or the whole U.S. as the roads were too dangerous to travel far. No rioting happened. Luckily my family used propane, as did most people in the area, so we still had heat. Everything went back to normal afterwards.
The portrayal of events, in this video, is simply ridiculous.
bro said we didn't find out what electricity was until the 1800s
The moment I saw an unplugged laptop (presumably working on a battery) turned off along with the electrical power cut, I wondered at the outset how many inacuracies are still coming.
If there was a global blackout of this magnitude, I would do everything in my power to make sure I don't survive.
Good
Why
@@smritimisra Because the lucky ones will be those who die.
Same, and it will happen at some point. Unless I could make aliyah and be fully adjusted to living in a Temple-centered society, I just couldn’t make it on an Earth without electricity.
Just one nationwide blackout is scaring you 😆😆😆
I refuse to believe a human will not be able to figure out the flue on a fireplace. They might not know what it's called, but they'll QUICKLY figure out what it does and how.
I’ve been in a black out that lasted over a week, and at no point did any of this happen. When the street lights go out, people notice that they are out and they stop and work it out with other drivers. The laptop goes out at the start but the phones still work? There are back up generators that are built into hospitals, radio stations, news rooms, military facilities, etc. generally I like these shows, but this was a little sensationalized and less about what I was hoping it would be. Let’s say the power goes out for weeks, months globally, that would be a cool video!
I’m calling bunk on most of this one, as an electrician, specifically one who’s spent most of their career in a hospital, I can say that per code (in the US at least) back up generators start as soon as electricity is lost or the quality of the power dips. At most some systems will be down for 10 seconds, critical circuits transfer immediately and most life maintaining equipment have a battery back up internally or installed in such a way that you don’t even notice the power blip. Also the fuel tanks for these generators are typically large enough to last at least a day or two without refueling if not longer. A lot of critical infrastructure also has back up generators that start as soon as power is lost. I know of at least one manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania that is powered entirely by generator, it’s not attached to the grid at all, so they wouldn’t even notice. And most elevators have an inertia triggered mechanical brake. So the days of elevators plummeting to earth, at least in the civilized world, are a thing of the past.
Problem is if earth is hit by a large x flare or an emp is detonated in the atmosphere. The grid will be fried for years as well as everything else electrical. Cars, generators, trains etc etc etc will all be dead (most). This is a very real threat
I'm also an electrician (retired) and second the "bunk" call. I could only listen to about a third of this video; they are so full of it.
My last job was in the electric shop at the local airport. All you say is true, additionally, the airport had emergency fuel delivery provisions in place that would keep the generators running for at least 30 days. I wouldn't be surprised if hospitals and other critical infrastructure also have similar arrangements.
Also, the elevators in high rise buildings are connected to the emergency power source. Most people would not be stranded in an elevator.
If all electricity stopped, that would include cell phones and the yellow lights of the vehicles mentioned. A lot of this wouldn't happen, but the medical situation is entirely probable
Phones don't stop working In a power outage they would just slowly die as usual without a portable charger same with cars
@@elijah1812 in the case of literally all electricity going out, that would include complete discharge of all batteries. That was implied during the discussion of all the car crashes. If the subject is just the power grid, people deal with blackouts fairly often
@@jonhu4127 yes you just made it seem like phones and cars would instantly die my bad although car batteries wouldn't really die just run outta gas
Hospital backup generators can run almost indefinitely, they can keep refueling it, and if that fails, the power company has MASSIVE portable generators that get sent to places like hospitals that can run for months if needed, this video is purely false, nothing said in the video is correct.
@@jonhu4127 in the case of literally all electricity going out it wont matter because the electricity in your brain would stop and you'd be dead.
So basically the plot from the short lived TV series "Revolution"
If a Carrington event happened, there would be cars stopping and planes falling and buildings would catch fire.
Here where I live, we experienced complete blackout for over a month (some areas reached 3 months) because of a typhoon that passed by, utility poles were completely toppled over and sidewalks were filled with wires that were still attached to them. It wasnt as chaotic as the video, but of course there was EXTREME boredom bc we were all so reliant on the entertainment of our phones. We also didn't have water because it was mostly powered by electricity and so we all had to rely on water pumps or wells, which thankfully, some areas were abundant with. Drinking water was also quite hard to find, and people would start lining up in water refilling stations as early as 1AM to fill their gallons with drinking water since half of the refilling stations were closed, the prices for it spiked as well. Gas was a huge problem too since most gas stations were wrecked, a long line of cars would also start lining up as early as 1 AM or as soon as the gas station closes. My mother and I lined up for the gas station at 4 AM, and we had to wait 7 hours before it was finally our turn.
To summarise, really the only troubling things that I could still vividly remember was the lack of communication, the heat (sometimes its harder to sleep bc i always sleep with at least a fan on) , having to sleep really early because it gets really dark and there's nothing else to do, water, gas & finally extreme boredom. It was more of an extreme & irritating inconvenience rather than complete and utter societal chaos. The positive side to it was that people went out more often and so alot of socializing happened, even for me. As an extremely shy person, I made new friends.
I’m sorry, but in which universe does society break down within 60 MINUTES of losing power? Am I missing something here?
It's very possible
Have you seen what happens when people lose their Internet for 60 seconds lol
Have you seen what happens when KFC runs out of chicken?
@@666Daheretic dang
It's definitely a dramatic and exaggerated timeline. I think what they're trying to show the most is just the way people interact in a crisis. Everything they showed was a form of "yes you can help your grandparents" or, "you can help patients in a hospital" etc. Although the content Massively exaggerated, dramatized as it was, I believe was the human interaction vs. An accurate timeline. But I have to be very honest, I live up in the mountains in New Hampshire so we're without electricity all the time. A lot of people do solar up this way also, so although there are some people who live down in Manchester, in Nashua, areas where it's more populated, a very high percentage of us are completely off the grid. So that very exaggerated timeline is just forein to me, it's just not possible. I lived out in Las Vegas for a while and hated being back on the grid😂
Honestly I want to see another video like this but based on the latest solar flare event and what if it hit.
We've had traffic lights go out several times, and it didn't cause wrecks, just delays if traffic is heavy.
The thing about hospital generators taking time to kick in just isn't true. The generators are tested to start in very short time. This short time is bridged by online ups (big battery). In Czech Republic we have the time for generators to start up in 2.5 minute. The online ups can usually last for at least few hours.
The NEC provides for similar back power in all commercial bldings. However, after a few days, fuel tanks must be refilled.
Also, our government has many plans for strange events, they would have a plan for at least the first week. They have a plan for aliens landing, I'm sure they have thought of a solar storm. Firefighters actually have a part of their training book on what to do when meeting an alien:)
Did you just miss our governments response to a global pandemic?
@@milesm0521 Lol what pandemic covid was a scam!
There were solar flares in history. In one famous case they actually used solar flare to power telegraph to talk about it. They were laughing how they disconnected the battery and it still worked. Noone panicked.
@@milesm0521 thank you
I can see elderly and disabled or those in bad situations (elevators with no safety precautions, etc) being that chaotic in the first 60 minutes alongside the hospital chaos but I am almost certain it would take longer than one day (if not several) for the entire human civilization to realize it’s a global crisis.
moral of the story the poorest ur country is the more chance u survived this disaster
and why the electricity will go out at once, nuclear plant had inuf fuel to run the plants for decades
I’m honestly loving these “First 60 minutes of when ___”
Ikr these are so great
“FIRST 60 MINUTES OF ALL WEED DISAPPEARING”
@@LowlightTonight "EVERYONE DIES OF CANCER"
@@LowlightTonight all jobs filled
Rename it to first 60 days of when and it would be more realistic.
Stair lifts for the elderly have one or two 12v battery backups built into the base of the chair, it can go up and down the stairs several times before the batteries run out.
8:43 Instead of going into survival mode and getting the things you need in ur inventory, you could just go in creative and have everything in ur inventory
It is absolutely amazing how much we depend on electricity, fire and light in general!
I was 15 when hurricane Katrina happened we were without electricity for almost 4 months. It took about 2 days before things turned to chaos. The storm ended but days one and two the nights were dark quiet and hot but night 3 the night had a orange glow from fires and the never ending sound of gun shots in the distance and the voice police officers driving around yelling over loud speakers saying help wasn't coming to not call 911. I lived in a small town in south Mississippi I couldn't even imagine how bad it should of been in a large city. New Orleans Louisiana was like a purge movie in less then a day
In my country the power goes out for at least 2 hours a day and often at night. And I can say that most of these things don't happen. We once chilled 7 days without power, and there were definitely no injured pedestrians.
I got to the point of 40 minutes, people would not be roiti g that quickly. Ham radio, CB radio etc can easily run off batteries or solor power etc. I've been in a 2 day blackout, no cell service, etc. No one panicked. People went around and informed everyone.
Within 50 minutes neighborhoods catch on fire? Probably not
LOL why would the screen go black on a laptop? You might lose internet, but it is running on battery,,,or maybe batteries dont work anymore either, but then the cars would have stopped immediately.
He also burnt all his money after 60 minutes to keep warm lol
60 minutes later everyone's house is on fire and they are burning their money to keep warm? I've been through power outages longer than 60 minutes. Classic The Infographic Show getting the timeframe off by orders of magnitude. 😂
“Burning their money for warmth” How much cash do people have sitting around? I got 40 bucks how long am I staying warm??
Um. I once was in an area where we had a blackout for hours at a time regularly, and once for 4 days. There isn't panic after 5 minutes, more just boredom. And cars don't immediately crash into each other once there's no street lights, people just drive slower and give way to each other at intersections.
Why would laptops and electric cars die immediately but cell phones and planes won’t? So confused
That still doesn’t answer his question. A Kerrington Event would disable all electronics including cellphones and laptops equally, if at all. Laptops and cellphones would both continue to function (just without access to phone calls and the internet) until their batteries ran out. We also have protocols in place to shut down power grids BEFORE we are hit by a solar storm or CME in order to prevent overloading electrical lines as had happened during that Kerrington Event.