Is Electricity Crucial To Our Survival? || The EMP

[sparked1]

Keep solar power equipment if you're worried about it. Just don't have it connected. Also, 33% of the population is 2.3 Billion people. As in 1 Million x 2,300. Just saying. 2B people are not dying within a few hours of a man-made EMP due to a lack of electricity.

 

[hikingthehills]

I think we are due for a reset!

 

[Patronus]

We apparently narrowly missed just this scenario this month.

Two EMP experts told Secrets that the EMP flashed through earth's typical orbit around the sun about two weeks before the planet got there.

"The world escaped an EMP catastrophe," said Henry Cooper, who led strategic arms negotiations with the Soviet Union under President Reagan, and who now heads High Frontier, a group pushing for missile defense

http://washingtonexaminer.com/massi...h-emp-disaster-barely-avoided/article/2533727

An electromagnetic surge from a solar storm is a more likely threat for an EMP. Generally, experts expect a bad solar storm to reach Earth about once every century, Baker said. The last time one hit the planet was during the Carrington event, when particles from a powerful coronal mass ejection overloaded telegraph wires and set paper messages on fire in 1859. A coronal mass ejection is an enormous sun eruption of super-hot plasma that spews charged particles across the solar system.

At that time, the world was just beginning to use widespread electronic communications. Baker and his colleagues just submitted a paper that details a coronal mass ejection that took place in July 2012. In that event, some 80 billion pounds of energized particles were ejected from the sun at a speed of several million miles per hour. Luckily it missed Earth. But if it had occurred one week earlier, it would have been aimed directly toward our planet - with catastrophic results.

http://www.livescience.com/38848-emp-solar-storm-danger.html

 

[Patronus]

You got me to singing the theme from Gilligan's Island in my head...

LOL!

"No phones, no lights, no motorcars. Not a single luxury."

 

[notyouraveragebear]

Keep solar power equipment if you're worried about it. Just don't have it connected. Also, 33% of the population is 2.3 Billion people. As in 1 Million x 2,300. Just saying. 2B people are not dying within a few hours of a man-made EMP due to a lack of electricity.

Sir 2.3 billion people will not die from lack of electricity on its on. Panicked people do unrational things... As any rescue swimmer / life guard will attest to. Not to mention the raiders and looters. Plus the possible government attempt to regain control. People would die more from the aftermath (i.e. crowd crush, mugging, or likewise) than the actual event itself.

 

[EVILWS6]

http://jalopnik.com/5937778/how-to-prepare-your-car-to-handle-an-emp-and-why-you-shouldnt-bother

Build a Faraday cage if you're worried about your sensitive electronics.

 

[notyouraveragebear]

3rd, the "every electronic component will die" is a huge exaggeration. things that are turned off will most likely be fine. like cars and generators. also, even if all of that did happen, making your own electricity is actually pretty easy. my junior physics student do science fair projects that make electricity (like make windmill generators out of pvc pipe, a 10 speed transmission and alternators from a chevy at the junkyard) every year. its honestly not that hard if you know the basics.

In the case of a nuclear fallout. That would be incorrect. Black rain would render all electronic devices useless due to the drastic increase of electrons in our atmosphere causeing disrupted radio waves, bio-minerals, and electrical currents. The average time it takes for a human to be able to go out in "fallout-conditions" and suffer minimal health risk is 4-6 weeks. But by then it only drops to around 0.32 cGy which can still harm all biological species, whether human, plant, or elemental.

 

[Radar363]

Sir 2.3 billion people will not die from lack of electricity on its on. Panicked people do unrational things... As any rescue swimmer / life guard will attest to. Not to mention the raiders and looters. Plus the possible government attempt to regain control. People would die more from the aftermath (i.e. crowd crush, mugging, or likewise) than the actual event itself.

But you said in your first post that 1/3 of the worlds population will die in the first few hours: I just don't see that happening.

 

[dakota port]

is it possible to build small cabin emp-proof, i mean the garage, bedrooms, kitchen, basement, the whole cabin. with very little electrical work installed in it

 

[sparked1]

Sir 2.3 billion people will not die from lack of electricity on its on. Panicked people do unrational things... As any rescue swimmer / life guard will attest to. Not to mention the raiders and looters. Plus the possible government attempt to regain control. People would die more from the aftermath (i.e. crowd crush, mugging, or likewise) than the actual event itself.

Sure, there would be widespread chaos, just don't think there would be that much that fast. 25% of the world's population currently doesn't have access to electricity, and some are probably just getting the basics like lighting. So, it would be more accurate to say that almost 1/3 of the population would probably not even notice if such an event had occurred.