BILLIONAIRE: Of All The Things That Are Likely, Nothing Is Scarier Than An Electromagnetic Pulse

BI ^ | 9-14-2014 | Myles Udland

[blam]

BILLIONAIRE HEDGE FUND MANAGER: Of All The Things That Are Likely, Nothing Is Scarier Than An Electromagnetic Pulse

Myles Udland
July 30, 2014

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Hedge fund managers often like to opine on various topics that are largely unrelated to investing.

In his latest lengthy quarterly letter to clients, Paul Singer of Elliott Management spent some time discussing a phenomenon that caught our attention and the attention of many others.

It's the danger posed by an electromagnetic pulse.

Singer writes that an electromagnetic pulse is the "risk that stands way above the rest in terms of the scope of potential damage adjusted for the likelihood of occurrence."

According to Singer, threats that are more manageable than an electromagnetic pulse include nuclear war and asteroids.

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[Ghost of SVR4]

It's the one that convinced me to include antibiotics in my prepper stocks.

Staph is no joke. I am of the same mindset. The book "One Second After also brought another highlight to me that I had NEVER thought of; alllllll the people on anti-depressants or other psych drugs. It'll be an interesting world.

[Ghost of SVR4]

And before anyone ask; decommissioning means that they have to make changes to the plants that render them impossible to ever operate again.

This is common even on the private level. I "have" to tie into sewage or face losing my home by lien and fines and sheriffs sale. Part of "tying in" means I have to destroy my perfectly good septic system that is rated at 25 years without maintenance and is only 14 years old. Mind you, my nearest neighbor is fifty yards away and across the road from me is hundreds of acres of farmland (i.e., no reason to run lines back my way; save "unions" in PA); there was NO REASON for sewage in my area outside of "control" (and that fat tap in fee of $6200.00). A couple families on my road lost their property already; I've been fighting this for nine years now (and honestly hoping for the final collapse to finally be free)

[GOPJ]

...got a proposal for 'ruggedized' IBM PC's for the Navy Underwater Center in Newport that had heavy shielding.

What do you think that was about?

[AU72]

What do you think that was about? I thought it was related to nuke effects.

[ansel12]

A 19 year old can walk 50 miles in two days.

[ansel12]

what a target!!

If an emergency arises he simply goes home, there isn't going to be instant warfare where we all go from normal to Road Warrior apocalyptic world within minutes, or hours.

Remember that it would take us quite a while before we can all find our shoulder pads and black leather jackets, and Samurai swords and such.

[blam]

"A 19 year old can walk 50 miles in two days."

I've read that towns used to be about 30 miles apart...the distance a horse can travel in a a day...presumably with a rider/load.

[familyop]

"Now, be the person, who has that capability- in such, an event. Now, be the person, who does not... see any problems?"

It's true that until now, very few people have had the capability to drill deep wells. Since the decline of use of cable tools (impact rigs, one of which I've run in the past to help a neighbor), operators have mortgaged their lives away for extremely expensive rotary equipment. It's one of the weaknesses of this debt/import regime (artificial scarcity).

But imagine someone in nearly every small community building or obtaining and maintaining at least one rotary rig at much lower cost and capable of doing the job. No more shortage and much lower fees for drilling. Anyone can have a well.

Imagine the same applied to many different kinds of machines (or watch the linked short presentation on what's already being done). Before long, no problems--at least not those kinds of problems.

[Nailbiter]

bflr

[familyop]

So far, the group for the low cost, open source drilling rig is trying to design plans for rigs capable of driving strings possibly up to 600 feet in depth. It shouldn’t be long before we see a prototype.

[RedHeeler]

I applaud their efforts. Although, I was actually addressing the security, of any new water source- under strenuous conditions.

[Beagle8U]

You should learn how to ‘witch’ water, meaning find underground springs that are close to the surface.

Forget the forked stick thing, there are plenty of online sites that will show you how using coat hanger wire. It really does work, but so far science can’t explain exactly why it works.

An old farmer showed me how to do it and I was amazed. There were about 10 of us from the sportsmans club there, all tried it and it worked every time.

He found a spring up on a hill in a friends yard. My buddy got the backhoe out and dug down about 8 feet and water gushed out of a spring. He had a pond dug in his yard after that.

[Godzilla]

The Soviet Union conducted a number of high altitude nuclear tesst with multiple megaton tonnage. The effects on communities nearby where studied and EMP damage was not as massive as currently being depicted.

What was eventually learned from these tests was that the real key to EMP is the enhancement of the production of gamma radiation. A Kiloton range weapon enhanced to produce gamma rays will create a larger emp than the megaton weapons of the test era.

[familyop]

"I applaud their efforts. Although, I was actually addressing the security, of any new water source- under strenuous conditions."

I read your reply and immediately peeked at your FR page to see...yes, that you're in CA (CO Rockies here). That's a really rough drought out your way. There are also the expansive desert areas just to the east of much of CA. Now, I better understand your perspective and see that it's very true with respect to CA. It's always been dry out that way and is even drier now.

I'm not originally from the West or the northeast. I can fix or build just about anything. There's plenty of water produced to the east of CO along with many more technically inclined people who wouldn't have any water shortages in those areas. The land out that way is saturated with water.

And thanks to our friends in Chinese trade, pretty much all of us have cheap generators that wouldn't be affected by pulses from the sky. The water facilities in Midwestern cities include large diesel generators and fuel supplies.

[RaceBannon]

Frank Gaffney, @SecureFreedom , @frankgaffney , about threats to the electric grid.
https://soundcloud.com/jacki-daily/jacki-talks-with-frank-gaffney