Posted on 05/23/2018 12:47:33 PM PDT by Crucial
When the Commission to Assess the Threat from Electromagnetic Pulse [EMP] Attack published its report in 2004, coal accounted for roughly half of all power produced in the United States. Today, only a third of US electricity comes from coal, according to the US Energy Information Agency (EIA). This is good news for both environmentalists and natural gascompanies. The formers’ long term dream of a more sustainable source of power is being realized, while the latters’ business is booming.
According to the EIA report, natural gas now makes up a third of all power produced – with nuclear and renewables making up the rest.
Before Edison the whole economy ran on coal, there are always shovels, picks, horses, and carts.
Well then I suggest you keep reading, and find some credible sources. Or just go on, it won’t really matter.
So the effect would be quite dramatic on electric and gas powered cars and trucks, also diesel for that matter.
LOL !
You have a way of saying that and yet the Parties listening still think it all smells like Roses.
I’m still counting the Trickle down Chaos in the Domino Effect in My head.
Coal plants would be easier to get running again as it is less dependent on electronics for energy generation.
Just think if RIGHT NOW we lost JUST Cellular Service for a 6 hour period- in the lower 48 !?
All calls, texts and .net INSTANTLY STOPS.
Ask your family to try it for 1 hour. Turn Everything Comms wise OFF and observe. I’m betting the Adults crack 1st just to shut the kids up.
If Ya really want to Amp up (pun intended) the situation, turn off the Main Breaker for the House also- at night.
Where ? Source Please.
What makes the turbines spin doesn’t matter. If a non-hardened plant gets with an EMP it’s done. Of course that’s not going to happen either. So really who cares.
You can see the smoke stacks and get the warm fuzzies knowing that power is being made.
Another reason for Solar Power!!
Sir, I respect your service to our country, but you don't know jack about the electric grid.
Generators produce a relative small voltage with a bunch of Amps. It feeds into a Main Power Transformer that raises the voltage to a very high amount. Every generator has what is called a Main power Transformer.
Correct. When I said “minimal” I was talking about the electric power components unique to electric cars. Power semiconductors, maybe.
next year when I retire after 45 years of electric grid operations, I will be selling this stuff.
No, I don’t. Some people who are a HELL of a lot smarter than me on EMPs and have studied their impacts on many of our devices told me explicitly that.
And the amount of coal required to feed today’s plants to satisfy the infrastructure of this century would not be served by shovels, picks, horses and carts. On a local level? Sure.
They would shut down any car made after, I think, 1972. That was when circuit boards started going into cars.
Electromagnetic pulses would probably happen incidentally to air bursts and only affect near areas around those. If EMP-specific attacks occur, those will probably precede air bursts over cities and ground bursts on selected sites. EMP-specific attacks (very high altitude) would emit both shorter and longer waves. The longer waves would affect mainly transformers and appliances that are plugged in. The shorter waves might affect equipment that has no metal cover. Communications would be affected for quite a few hours (temporary ionospheric effect).
If you receive the warning, unplug stuff. That would be for the purpose of resuming reception of artificial perversions of morality from the foreign minds in our upscale coastal communities.
I hope you are correct.
Black starting an electric grid would not be pretty.
Once again, thank you for your service.
You are correct. Besides, electromagnetic pulses will only come with bursts that decrease populations in other ways. Blasts and heat waves would be a greater concern followed by I-131 for a few days.
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