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2023-05-29 Science & Technology

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-29 07:18|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Does an EMP Permanently Destroy Electronics

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-29 07:56|| 2023-05-29 07:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Trestle Electromagnetic Pulse Simulator

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-29 07:59|| 2023-05-29 07:59|| Front Page Top

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-29 08:01|| 2023-05-29 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Many thanks for posting these Merc. I will pass them along to the concerned party.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-29 08:03|| 2023-05-29 08:03|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm still looking for a good deep dive article, hopefully post a link here soon.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-29 08:04|| 2023-05-29 08:04|| Front Page Top

#6 A survivalist take

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-29 08:07|| 2023-05-29 08:07|| Front Page Top

#7 The 200-level physics class take

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-29 08:09|| 2023-05-29 08:09|| Front Page Top

#8 My personal thoughts: There's no way any add-on box can prevent all possible damage to all possible pieces of gear. The only way to know if the product would actually work for your application would be an actual test, which of course is out of the question.

That said, if you are willing to devote the resources to hardening say a room in the corner of a basement, you'd probably have a pretty good chance of having the stuff stored there still work afterwards. Then the issue is, how long do your batteries last? Will the grid recover soon if at all? Will there be any radio stations operating at all, and will any radio station help you survive?

If it fails in an actual EMP situation, your problems will be much bigger than filing a consumer lawsuit.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-29 08:18|| 2023-05-29 08:18|| Front Page Top

#9
#8 My personal thoughts: There's no way any add-on box can prevent all possible damage to all possible pieces of gear. The only way to know if the product would actually work for your application would be an actual test, which of course is out of the question.

Postedby: M. Murcek 2023-05-29 08:18

M. Murcek, well put, sir. A couple of thoughts here:

*Keep in mind unless you're in a fairly rural area, there won't be any radio stations, AM or FM, broadcasting, even if they somehow escape the pulse - most urban area stations now rely on satellite feeds, and those will be gone in the opening seconds.
*A friend of mine who worked as a strategic analyst asked this question about an EMP attack and the Smuggled Nuke Option: If it was so easy to accomplish, why hasn't anybody tried? This is not to say that there isn't a threat, far from it. But it is much more likely that the effects of EMP would be much more localized to the area of the detonation, and that to pull off a truly effective EMP strike, it might require so many weapons as to be indistinguishable from a first strike anyways.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2023-05-29 08:43|| 2023-05-29 08:43|| Front Page Top

#10 EMP attack and the Smuggled Nuke Option

This would result in a ground blast that would destroy anything that the EMP might touch. EMP wants to detonate at high altitude, preferable in space.

Posted by Angstrom 2023-05-29 10:33|| 2023-05-29 10:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Ref # 10 ^^^^
Like the US and Chinese long duration, unmanned space planes?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-05-29 11:16|| 2023-05-29 11:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Space is too high. Inside the ionosphere is better.

The EMP threat: fact, fiction, and response (part 1)

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-29 11:20|| 2023-05-29 11:20|| Front Page Top

#13 I've looked at this for my solar generator. From my readings, heavy aluminum foil of a couple of layers properly wrapped and sealed around the panels still in their shipping containers will suffice.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-05-29 19:21|| 2023-05-29 19:21|| Front Page Top

#14 ...oops.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-05-29 19:24|| 2023-05-29 19:24|| Front Page Top

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