If a SHTF can civilians who even have an INKLING of electrical fix power equipment?

Almost anyone can learn 90% of what you need to know to do any profession in just a few weeks or months.

It's that remaining 9.99999% percent that it can takes years or decades of experience to learn...and if something is going to get you killed, thats usually where it lies.

In a peaceful, litigious society where 'all lives matter' a great deal of time and money goes into making sure everyone working a dangerous job is 99.99% competant at it.

In a national disasters, say a CME that destroys the global electrical grid, 90% would probably good enough. Keeping in mind that good enough means getting the job done before you run out of people to get it done. Not necessarily that you will live a long life in your new career.

I suspect in a such a situation there would be organized infrastructure 'drafts' of survivors who receive a few weeks training and then sent out, knowing that many of them will die but that it's an acceptable loss and that MOST of them will survive and get the job done.

If you think it's far fetched consider how little training people received in the past before being sent off to fight wars.

Electricity is massively simpler than combat and follows basic laws of physics without actively trying to outthink you and kill you. If it kills you, it's because you broke the rules, not because you where out flanked by a superior enemy.

The difference is, death in war is considered completely normal and expected. Its only a problem when they die faster than they can be replaced.

In 'Jobs' it's considered completely unacceptable, (no matter how often it actually happens) but this is just a social construct, easily changed if the stakes are.

You will also find that the grid does not have to be nearly as complex as it is if certain safety and efficiency considerations are ignored.

For instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-wire_earth_return

If we are truly in a 'get the country back on its feet or 100 million die this winter' situation, expect many many people to do things far above their pay grade, usually successfully, sometimes, fatally....to get it done.

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If a SHTF can civilians who even have an INKLING of electrical fix power equipment?