It's good for 4/0 cable.
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...
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?
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
I know Bob Hall’s minuteman EMP program intimately. He’s right about this, as usual.
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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.
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.
Here is a link to the full Wall Street Journal article from May of this year (2015) on the EMP threat:
http://reliableelectricgrid.org/the-threat-to-melt-the-electric-grid/
Here is the key part of the article. This is scary stuff. From the quote below, the Cheyenne Mountain move will not be finished until 2020. Iran will almost certainly have nukes by then unless Israel goes to war with them with nuclear weapons. And of course, it does not matter if the military survives the EMP since they will be unable to help if the national power grid goes down. They may be able to turn Iran and North Korea into glass but all the rest of us will be dead.
The primary headquarters for Norad, which provides early warning and command and control for the defense of the U.S. against nuclear attack, has for a decade been at nearby Peterson Air Force Base. Critical Norad operations are being moved back into Cheyenne Mountain, and the Pentagon recently awarded a $700 million contract to Raytheon to upgrade electronics through 2020.
At an April 7 Pentagon news conference, Norad Commander Adm. William Gortney noted that Norad is going back underground “because of the very nature of the way that Cheyenne Mountain’s built. It’s EMP-hardened.” He explained that North Korea now has mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles, the KN-08, armed with nuclear warheads, that can strike the U.S. While the KN-08 is inaccurate, it could be used to launch a high-altitude nuclear EMP attack.
Adm. Gortney reassured those at the news conference that the U.S. can defend itself from a nuclear-missile threat from North Korea—or from Iran “if we get our assessment wrong,” he said, referring to the current nuclear negotiations. U.S. missile defense, he said, is “able to defend the nation against both those particular threats today.”
That is true as far as it goes—but only if an attack on the U.S. comes from the northern skies. Former senior Reagan administration officials warn that the U.S. is unprepared to cope with nuclear EMP strikes from North Korea and Iran if their missiles’ trajectory takes a southern route.
Is it time for this foolish paranoia again already?! I guess it’s been a while. I know people LOVE to get all worried but out here in reality it is quite simply NOT going to happen. The “big” EMP burst taking out the country scenario that the doom criers like to talk about requires you to get a device higher up than the ESS, just isn’t going to happen. And if somebody has got multiple bombs we’ve got much bigger problems than the EMP. This is, quite simply, silly.
Think of all the poor kids who couldn’t get their facebook and twitter fixes if the cell networks went down. It would be horrible.
As with most doomsday scenarios I am skeptical.
Next Saturday I will be hosting another radio show on WBEN, Buffalo. My guest will be 2 experts in the field and we will cover how to protect the grid. Something congress and the power companies have refused to do.
Iran will use an EMP bomb against us first chance they get... They project their own evil onto others... if they're working on a defense it's because it's what they plan on doing.
Why not simply duplicate all the big transformers and station the across the nation in secured underground metal lined ‘Faraday’ vaults for future use.
“Iranian researchers...have built an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) filter that protects country’s vital organizations against cyber attack”
This is gibberish. There is no “EMP Filter” that protects organizations, per se. A filter on any incoming grid power is generally part of any facility hardening, but it’s not the only thing one needs to do. An “EMP Filter” would not be part of “cyber protection”.
It's good for 4/0 cable.