Posted on 10/16/2016 2:14:03 PM PDT by milford421
"An executive order was issued Thursday, October 14, that outlined the countrys contingency plan in the event such weather events lead to significant disruption to systems like the electrical power grid, satellite operations or aviation."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
What his family in Kenya does not have
I'm sure they've probably spent far more teaching makeup artistry to pubescent boys that like to dress up like madonna.
Just remember Kids; We The People are on the hook for this @sshat’s room & board for the remainder of his natural days!
There, now. Don’t you feel better? *SNORT*
This is about the war they are planning with Russia.
Oh, just in time.
We can go to Home Depot and buy the kit. I hear it only costs billions of dollars and takes more than a decade to install !
Now ? NOW he wants to do something about this ?
Triage would have to conducted on a national scale. In a just in time society we would pay dearly for a society which depends on regular deliveries.
This is a picture of the type of rail car used to deliver main transformers. You'll need refineries to operate to produce fuel to power railroads. You'll need power plants to operate refineries. You'll end up with innumerable catch 22 situations.
The transformer goes between the two rail car halves. These are not the little transformers you see at substations.
Generally no. Solar events will affect nothing but long lines, blowing up transformers on the grid. They are very low frequency magnetic field fluctuations which is why the long line is needed to generate current.
EMP is the opposite, extremely high frequency electric fields. EMP can also contain lower frequencies but not significant magnetic fields. The high frequency electric fields can be picked up by very short antennas and damage all sorts of electronics including semiconductors.
They are both serious threats but different and require different mitigation. The best way to mitigate EMP is missile defense.
His next executive order will stop cows from farting.
Ever heard of the Carrington Event?
If something like this occurred today, it quite likely wouldn’t be pretty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
“Generally no. Solar events will affect nothing but long lines, blowing up transformers on the grid. They are very low frequency magnetic field fluctuations which is why the long line is needed to generate current.”
In light of this information, the Executive Order seems, well, curious....
Bill...Clinton or Richardson?
The grid is generally not vulnerable to EMP. EMP will do far more damage to electronics. Solar events will not damage electronics other than those directly attached to long lines (i.e. nothing in your house).
""The slowdown we see now means that Solar Cycle 25, peaking around the year 2022, could be one of the weakest in centuries," says Hathaway." (from link just above)
Obama appears to be an idiot.
Patriots beware !
Regarding executive orders, the Supreme Court had clarified in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 1952 that such orders do not have the force of law unless they are legislatively supported by Congress.
So an appropriate edit of the articles title is as follows.
"Obama Signs OrderCongress Passes Bill To Prepare Nation For Solar Storms"
H O W E V E R ...
Since Congress must be able to justify any bill that it makes with its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, the problem is that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to address the surface reason for Obamas solar order.
So corrupt Congress is once again letting last-term Obama get away with stealing 10th Amendment-protected state powers.
And as the article indicated, Obamas solar order is probably an attempt by the corrupt Washington cartel to unconstitutionally expand the unconstitutionally big federal governments powers.
In fact, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson had warned patriots to be on their guard against the corrupt feds expanding their powers in relatively unnoticeable ways.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition. Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791
The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all. Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trumps vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional inteference in state affairs as evidenced by lawless Obamas unconstitutional executive order.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
“Ever heard of the Carrington Event?”
I have. Nothing about these present times is pretty....
The federal study done a few years ago says there will be extensive damage to the grid.
Obama is planning on ISIS to knock out our power grids. This gives him an excuse to blame it on something else, so he can cancel the national election.
An EMP can be engineered to create more grid damage. But low frequencies require much more energy than high frequencies to induce currents. To get transformer-damaging currents with EMP would be quite difficult.
First it’s climate change, now the sun. Soon they’ll be firing missiles at God. Psalm two alert.
Technically no.
A solar-caused event, a Carrington event, does NOT produce the same three pulses of a nuclear-caused EMP.
A solar event can be very high induced voltages, but compared to nuclear EMP is very slow rise. Presumed also that a solar event induces long wave antennae (long wires) far better than transistors.
Nuclear EMP has three total pulses, the worst of which for modern electronics is very fast rise voltage. It is too fast for ‘lightning arrest or’ style protection.
Shielded electronics can readily survive (in theory) either type of EMP, and your vehicle would likely only endure blown fuses from a big solar event.
It’s easy to shield items from either type. Put items it a cardboard box and put the box in a metal trash can. Small items like a crank radio can be placed in a box and then placed inside a Charles Chips can.
If no voltage can be induced, EMP cannot do harm.
BTW, a microwave’s not the right place. Wavelength of nuclear EMP is so short, it’ll get in.
Kinda moot though since nuclear EMP will absolutely disrupt the power grid, and therefore shutdown our just in time supply chains.
Our civilization can survive a solar event; not so much a nuclear one. Worst case scenarios are bleak.
Keep a 3 day bag, 100 mile shoes, and self defense firearms ‘with’ you at all times for now.
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