What caused the outage and why wasn't it corrected?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Into the Forest
cashmccall — 9 years ago(November 20, 2016 02:21 PM)
The radio said auto shutdown, a mistake, and a rumor of terrorism. But I didn't watch the entire film or catch every line of dialogue so can anyone tell me what happened to the power and why it wasn't fixed?
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dariondanjou — 9 years ago(November 26, 2016 07:58 PM)
it's never explained. but it doesn't much add up because they can run power through their generator. honestly, the power grid is just a giant generator system run on oil, so there's no reason power couldn't be restored globally in short order
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spaminput — 9 years ago(December 04, 2016 07:57 PM)
As an electrical engineer that was a totally stupid premise for the movie. Power goes out and stays out for years? No way. Just won't happen. One thing that could cause a complete world wide loss of power is a geomagnetically induced current. It might damage some equipment somewhere, but they plan for that and could restore power fairly promptly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetically_induced_current