Has anyone ever created an EMP, aside from the sun of course?
I see a lot coulds and maybes and such but I would like to see a man-made demonstration.
Nukes will create a EMP.....Some Nukes are designed to do just that.
Sure, every atomic bomb creates one. The degree of damage depends on how high in the atmosphere it is detonated, and the details of the bomb design, but they all do it. The reason we know about it is because some of the early high-altitude tests in the Pacific knocked out some of the more primitive and robust electrical equipment of the 50's.
Years & years ago, I saw a documentary about the military working on an EMP gun.
I think some of the earliest nuke tests unexpectedly turned the lights off in Vegas.
The Soviet Union conducted a number of high altitude nuclear tesst with multiple megaton tonnage. The effects on communities nearby where studied and EMP damage was not as massive as currently being depicted.
http://www.futurescience.com/emp/Yucca-EMP.pdf
http://group47.com/Starfish_Prime_and_Power_Of_EMP.pdf
http://www.history.com/news/a-perfect-solar-superstorm-the-1859-carrington-event
We have:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator
And we used it in Iraq.
I think when they were doing the atmospheric nuclear tests on Johnston Island, one of the shots EMP’d parts of Austrailia. I don’t know how long it lasted, though.
Yes, in a government facility in New Mexico. Scientists worked there to determine how to harden military assets so they would continue to work.
My significant other is an earth scientist and geologist and said what I already knew to be true. Once he determined where this coronal mass would be closest on earth and the strength of it, he said if the strength was greater and would hit farther south toward us (north Texas) (it will actually be farther north toward Canada), all we had to do was unplug everything from the wall as only connected items would be fried.
If it was greater and hit farther south as in south of Canada or central part of the country, it is true the entire grid would go down and anything connected to the grid would be fried. That would be the 1800s lifestyle coming back.
Yes, in the movie "Ocean's Eleven" (the remake).