Humblegunner's snark isn't listed!
Posted on 04/20/2015 9:54:05 AM PDT by ClaudeDavis
“I think I’ll be still driving my ‘61 VW.....”
“And my ‘56 Ford....”
... and my kick-start Harley Shovelhead.
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Regards,
SS1
Think nuclear sub. Small but efficient powerplant.
Agreed, but we don’t have that kind of government.
Thanks for the links. It looks like this technology is just reaching maturity as far as practical application. It fits the profile you described pretty well, typically handling 10 to 20,000 homes per unit, life span of 8-10 years, etc. enough for rebuilding permanent infrastructure.
Thank-you so much for your information on Faraday cages.
One of my favorite books and it has to do with an EMP scenario. I passed it around to my neighbors and started them prepping in 2008.
http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-William-Forstchen/dp/0765356864
I read that one. It was good.
Y2K is like someone warning of a potential devastating flood people skeptical at first, but after a while they get it and a damn is build, sure enough the flooding rains come, but because the damn was built no real damage is done, so does that mean no damn needed to be built?
Y2K didn’t happen not because it couldn’t, it didn’t happen because business took it serious and at the cost of millions of dollars they had programmers rewrite millions of lines of code.
Like cockroaches always scurrying about.
Uhhh....no. Remember, people thought everything with a chip would crash. Cars wouldn’t start, etc.
Yes that is the often postulated doomsday EMP strike. The reality, if it ever happens, is far less likely to be so dramatic.
Depending on the strength of the weapon, it’s detonation location, shielding, shadowing, etc. all can very the power and duration of the emp spike.
Will the long haul power be out - probably
Will local power (home gen) be out - not until there is no more fuel
Will cars near the epicenter of the EMP weapon be disabled - probably if they are newer cars. Most of your older diesel delivery trucks are still going to be running.
Long haul communications lines are mostly fiber optics so they will likely not be effected at all.
Central Offices could be impacted but even the smallest “Bell” CO has shielding. Maybe not EMP proof but the shielding could reduce the effects significantly.
bump!
I found a foam lined metal can than is air/water tight large enough to hold 8 grms walkie talkies, solar charger, my ham transceiver, battery chargers, tablet, thumb drive with all my important documents and other small electronics for just such an event.
Ha!!....you’ve never lived on a farm.
FRegards,,!!
I don’t remember any of that. I do remember their was concern that programs that used time to properly work would fail or when computers that tried to use 2 digits to calculate things that they now needed 4 for would fail. Kind of like the old rotary mechanical calculators would act when you tried to divide 3 into one. Was their hysterical people yes. Were there sharpers making money yes, there always are, but that doesn’t make the core of the situation any less true.
It would be good if the people who believe in EMP armageddon would actually read the report on probable effects of EMP.
It is unlikely that all power would be down, or all communications would be down. In the testing that a colleague helped do with EMP (which has to be very limited and small scale), about half of cars that were running were effected, and only about a quarter of cars that were not running.
From the Iranians point of view, would you roll the dice on the survival of your nation on a weapon that you had never tested?
Think about it. EMP effects are not completely understood, so you cannot know just what will happen, and you cannot test it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.