Posted on 02/10/2015 2:25:33 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
I’m a EE. I do power engineering.
The problem with EMP is that it hits generators and transformers the hardest, and it hits them so fast that you can’t isolate them.
EMP, put as simply as I can, is when gamma radiation knocks electrons out of the upper atmostphere. It’s like taking a hammer to a brace in a coal mine - the coal dust just creates clouds of dust.
This gamma ‘hammer’ shakes so many electrons loose, and lenses it toward earth, and it all gets picked up by long conductors.
The current it generates melts the windings of transformers and generators. Solid state electronics doesn’t stand a chance. Faraday cages are the only thing that protects against EMP. Some underground parking garages will work, given that the rebar acts almost exactly like a faraday cage.
Anyway, the transformers used in the Atlantic and Pacific grids aren’t made in the US. They are made in Korea. Some in Japan.
We don’t keep spares for that sort of part. They are massive. They are hauled by trains, for the most part. Those trains are diesel electric. They won’t work either, even if you had the spares to do the job.
Unless it was made using the old tube technology, the electronics won’t work.
EMP actually has three parts to it. M1, M2, and M3. M3 is the ‘long tail’ that happens after a nuke blast is what really degrades transmission infrastructure.
Semiconductor rectifiers? They are definitely toast. They make the DC electricity go wavy (AC) so you can transmit it without much loss.
If it is made with semiconductors, its toast (M1 will do it in).
Believe it. EMP would probably kill up to 80 percent of the US population in 12 months. What would end up happening is the reversion of the ecology to its environmental limit (the max number of plant and animal species that can be supported on a given piece of land).
In cities, we artificially suspend the law of environmental limit by using JIT delivery of food that allows us to live on top of one another, like bees live in a hive.
(See Operation Fishbowl)
The Soviets found out about this before we did. Fishbowl was when we tested it and really documented it.
Just saw on news this morning that the news car that have GPS and UConnec, Blue Tooth, can be hacked and controlled, stolen, tracked, etc.
Though the author was talkin’ campers. I think a floating home is the superior choice: checkpoints...borders...battalions....murderous bands of roving pillagers.....all avoided or rendered less effective on a personal, moveable island. One can be bound for the Azores as the first SH’sTF.
And, of course, practicing with the escape pod is a lot of fun.
Another “bug-out” bug ;)
EM50 Urban Assault Vehicle
sorry didn’t realize you brought up the boat in 17. the way you dexcribed it i thought you meant one in the backyard looking unappealing.
military boats would investigate your boat for supplies and anything useful. same with boats taken over by thugs.
M4L
Unimog.
There ya go. That’s the one. :-)
Unimog 404 1968 model and it is EMP proof.
I listened to the Gun Guy Radio show yesterday and they talked about this company. They interviewed one of the guys who works there, and they’re planning to build their vehicles on platforms all the way up to the Ford F-750.
Better yet , ebay has a 1998 M1079 fo 30k that has 481 original miles.
sssshhhhhh! let everyone run into the hills and look for deer.
A former coworker of mine bought that Toyota thing that looks like a bug-out vehicle...and for that purpose.
I informed him that being a 2012 (or so) model year it won’t hold up to well against an EMP. He said “whoops”.
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