Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what about the power grid? is there any protection for that?
I don’t know much about the power grid with respect to surge protection or EMP protection. As I said in my post, I’m confident in our lighting products holding fast during an EMP but don’t know what will happen to the electrical service that powers our products.
Most high voltage transmission lines like the 745,000 volt systems that AEP operates, one or two conductors are strung along the tops of the towers for lightning protection. What happens at a substation or generating plant I do not know.
Short answer; NO! Long answer: our grids are woefully out of date, most of them are interconnected so that a failure at one will lead to cascading failures to most of them (cept Texas, I think, I think they declined to join up). When Trump is talking about infrastructure, he's talking the grid.
Have a woodstove, good oil lamps (Aladdin are the best!) and an independent source of water. Oh, and you could be cool like me and have a pink outhouse on your property.
If you are getting alarmed about talk of EMPs, good. You could always GTS (google that sh!t) or there are plenty here who are more knowledgeable than I, but I bet no one has has much recent experience living off the grid as I have. Don't want to scare you, just educate you.
>>Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what about the power grid? is there any protection for that?<<
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Yes there is, and the cost is less than $3 billion according the the Congressional EMP Commission.
Probably the main component og the protection is Faraday cages around all the giant transformers. These completely shield them from EMP.
(Faraday cage means to totally enclose with conductive metal, or even a wire mesh. Easy to look it up if you want more info.)
The TRAITOR OBAMA IGNORED the simple prescriptions of the commission for the 8 years. I think it is because HE WANTS AMERICA DESTROYED AND OUR POPULATION TO DIE (90%).
President Trump is moving as fast as possible to get this fixed ... slogging through the swamp in Congress.