Posted on 08/01/2015 11:09:02 AM PDT by TXnMA
Texas State Senator Bob Hall, a former USAF Colonel and himself an EMP expert, characterizes as "equivalent to treason" the behavior of the electric utilities and their lobbyists:
"As a Texas State Senator who tried in the 2015 legislative session to get a bill passed to harden the Texas grid against an EMP attack or nature's GMD, I learned first hand the strong control the electric power company lobby has on elected officials. We did manage to get a weak bill passed in the Senate but the power companies had it killed in the House. A very deceitful document which was carefully designed to mislead legislators was provided by the power company lobbyist to legislators at a critical moment in the process. The document was not just misleading, it actually contained false statements. The EMP/GMD threat is real and it is not "if" but WHEN it will happen. The responsibility for the catastrophic destruction and wide spread death of Americans which will occur will be on the hands of the executives of the power companies because they know what needs to be done and are refusing to do it. In my opinion power company executives, by refusing to work with the legislature to protect the electrical grid infrastructure are committing an egregious act that is equivalent to treason. I know and understand what I am saying."
"As a young US Air Force Captain, with a degree in electrical engineering from The Citadel, I was the project officer who lead [sic] the Air Force/contractor team which designed, developed and installed the modification to "harden" the Minuteman Strategic missile to protect it from an EMP attack. The American people must demand that the power company executives that are hiding the truth stop deceiving the people and immediately begin protecting our electrical grid so that life as we know it today will not end when the terrorist EMP attack comes. Ironically, while electric power lobbyists are fighting against EMP protection in Washington, Texas, Maine, Colorado and elsewhere, the Iranian news agency MEHR recently reported that Iran is violating international sanctions and going full bore to protect itself from a nuclear EMP attack:"
Iranian researchers...have built an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) filter that protects country's vital organizations against cyber attack. Director of Kosar Information and Communication Technology Institute Saeid Rahimi told MNA correspondent that the EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) filter is one of the country's boycotted products and until now procuring it required considerable costs and various strategies. "But recently Kosar ICT...has managed to domestically manufacture the EMP filter for the very first time in this country," said Rahimi. Noting that the domestic EMP filter has been approved by security authorities, Rahimi added "the EMP filter protects sensitive devices and organizations against electromagnetic pulse and electromagnetic terrorism." He also said the domestic EMP filter has been implemented in a number of vital centers in Iran. (MEHR News Agency, "Iran Builds EMP Filter For 1st Time" June 13, 2015)
Read more: Family Security Matters
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Hall "knows his stuff" when it comes to applied technology for shielding electronics from EMP -- both man-made and natural (Solar ejections) damage to our electronic infrastructure.
Hall's remarks were published as part of a much larger and more technically informative (Good Read!!) article on the website, Family Security Matters
Straight up!
I personally observed EMP effects associated with one of our high altitude nuke tests over the Pacific...
Please describe your observation.
I’d like to learn more.
What part of the grid proper would there be any necessity to shield from EMP? Isn’t “the grid” basically a bunch of wire and transformers? What specific “sensitive devices and organizations against electromagnetic pulse and electromagnetic terrorism” would be protected?
How far away? Were you in Hawaii?
Not only is an EMP attack feasible, it could be deniable
We would not only be crippled as a nation but there would be disputes about who even did it or why, as the Ayatollahs swore on the holy korans they didden do nuffin
and sniggered at our fool president and our paralyzed NCA
The wires mostly, I believe.
When a big nuke goes off at high altitude, it displaces magnetic field lines that surround Earth. This happens very rapidly at first, then settles down over a period of minutes after.
When that big initial transient occurs, the amount of magnetic flux that links some of the long-distance stretches of transmission lines suddenly changes. This induces big voltages and currents in those lines.
There may be other effects in the RF spectrum I’m not aware of.
I know Bob Hall’s minuteman EMP program intimately. He’s right about this, as usual.
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Security precludes further detail...
I am not an electrician nor do I have my EE, but I have been told by those that do, that the US could significantly reduce the national exposure to an EMP by putting AC-DC-AC converters on high power lines where they cross state boundaries.
Also, consider that the grid (like most everything else, nowadays) is controlled by -- computers.
During an EMP, power lines become antennas that channel the EMP pulse. Thus power lines extend the range and effect of an EMP. While the original pulse might be enough to fry a state’s footprint, the power lines extend the area. The pulse can then damage / destroy much of the power distribution network over a large area.
To repair the damage, many lines, junctions, transformers, trip/triggers, etc will need to be replaced. Depending on the time location and possible cascade effect, power plant transformers may need to be replaced and possibly even the power plant generators. That is near to a worse case scenario. Power plant transformers are not sitting on the docks waiting to be shipped. They are multi-ton, ship via train, HUGE transformers. Order to build to delivery can take a year and a half.
I saw an older vehicle the other day on the road, with the license plate: “EMP PRF”.
Bob Hall: “From 1984 to 2013, he operated a business, Professional Proposal Management, Inc., which assisted companies in obtaining government contracts. “
EMP can be big business. This is just a business stunt like the Ozone Hole was and Globull Warming is.
Does it kill people?
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