Posted on 10/05/2022 7:23:30 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was ready with his answer when Fox News’s Neil Cavuto asked him about the widespread, hurricane-related power outages in southwest Florida.
“Do you think this reminds folks that we’re not ready, or the EVs are not ready for prime time?” Cavuto asked Buttigieg.
“Well, I actually think this is a great example of one of the many benefits of those tools,” Buttigieg said: “I was just at the Detroit Auto Show a couple of weeks ago. And one of the things that was very impressive about some of the vehicles that we saw, including the — for example, the pickup trucks that are on the market, entering onto the market right now, is that their power can actually flow both ways. So, in an extreme event, from a neighborhood resiliency perspective, they can actually work basically like a generator, except that you don’t have to have diesel ready for them. What they’re doing is, they’re using the battery capacity to power a home and, in that sense, could be very useful in a scenario like this.”
(Left unasked and unanswered was the question, how do you recharge your EV once the car battery runs down powering the house? Gas cans are portable; electric charging stations are not.)
Buttigieg said no one envisions an “overnight” transition to electric vehicles. …
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People overestimate the EMP threat from nukes; however, the threat comes mainly from unshielded magnetic coils like those in stereo speakers.
In all cases of a nuclear weapon, your distance from the burst controls the harshness of the affects. If the Russians launch everything they have, working electronics will be the least of your worries.
There are hand operated pumps. Those are used on every farm. A hand-cranked generator would be a real chore.
There are miniaturized advances in Faraday shielding which are amazing that I have seen at shows and tech expos. There are also devices out today both nuclear and non nuclear that can generate sufficient energy for either large or small scale EMP attacks. This is due to the new thrusts going into Asymmetric warfare.
Pete needs to shut up. Some people in FL will be without power for weeks. The EVs would just become expensive paperweights.
Watch out for the used Teslas getting ready to hit the market.
Especially those from Lee county.
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Nuclear bursts in the stratosphere will also shower the place with protons. Those will collide with metal boxes, knocking electrons off the inside surfaces of the box. That secondary emission must be handled using a box inside a box.
EMP is a problem only if you are really close to the burst. For example, a 10KT ground burst causes EMP that can cause little damage when over 2 miles away. Big bombs make a higher density; however, I don't think they travel much farther than affects of the burst itself. High altitude burst with large warheads are more troublesome, but EMP from those things still follows the inverse square law. The military is concerned about all of this because the nukes will be aimed at their stuff. They want their electronics to survive a near miss.
I’m not talking about high tech but changes in configuration of the technology. Miniaturization brings a whole new level of hardness to electronics. EMP effectiveness has changed wrt to the things you are stating/citing. EMP effects can be expanded by number of weapons used, configuration of munition(s) and method of deployment. Precision deployment methods are growing in leaps and bounds.
Small electronics packages are surely easier to protect. I'd assume that obviating the need for inductors helped a great deal as well, that being accomplished by RC parts being used with op amps rather than coils for tuning.
Also, maybe you and I should start a company that makes vacuum tubes. We may be ready before WWIII starts.
LOL
As long as they are charged. And if you have to charge them?
So imagine everybody charging up their cars at the same time in anticipation of a hurricane.
What could possibly go wrong?
Lol...but they can ONLY be used as a generator for a limited time and then only once. Where as you can use a gas or diesle truck for the very same thing and get a lot more “miles” out of a tank of gas. And gas is much more accessible than electricity to fill a car like this during a crisis.
The obvious solution is to equip them with front end tow brackets and have diesel pickups pull them north after the juice runs out.
I agree 100%. Except the EMP, God forbid, will also take out most cars.
+100! 😉👍
Cake.
I will walk, ride my horse..or ride my bike.
Yes. The mechanical ones. In NBC School in the early 80s they said even the old deuce and a half, jeeps, M60 tanks, Hueys would all be inoperable.
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