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In what could potentially be one of the most, or least, significant actions of his term in office, President Trump Tuesday signed an Executive Order requiring federal agencies to strengthen critical infrastructure against ElectroMagnetic Pulse (EMP) attacks.
EMPs occur for a variety of natural and man-made reasons including, most notably, Nuclear Explosions and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), either of which could potentially take out entire sections of the country's electrical grid and other infrastructure and capabilities, requiring require years or decades to recover from.
Members and supporters of the decommissioned US Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse have long warned of the possibility of an EMP attack, with some individuals, such as Peter Pry, who previously led the congressional EMP commission, asserting that an EMP attack on America could kill off 90% of the US population.
This is because a man-made EMP has the advantage of being highly asymmetrical. A small country able to pull one off would cause potentially massive disruption to a large tech dependent country such as the United States.
Past EMP related coverage here, here and here
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @12:31PM (8 children)
Tin foil hat
Put your spare computer and power generating parts in a metal box.
Also the control computers for the car,...
Then you can have lights and video games as you starve.
Seriously, what does 'hardening' the country to EMP mean.
The priority list is shelter, clean water, food, then everything else is gravy.
The house will survive EMP, I can cut wood and get heat.
With any population density, the clean water system is not going to work with fryed electronics.
But MacGyver can probably get the pumps running given a working diesel generator.
The thing the bugs me is all the engine control computers on the diesel transport trucks, refineries, and especially farm tractors.
Given that the infrastructure to rebuild that is also fryed, how does one deal with that?
Everybody is not prepared with 40 acres and a mule and the ability to use it.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @12:52PM
https://www.askaprepper.com/10-faraday-cages-you-can-make-at-home/ [askaprepper.com]
Put flash storage in there.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 29 2019, @09:41PM (5 children)
I'd lobe to see you cutting woof and getting heat while living in the Trump tower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Friday March 29 2019, @10:55PM (2 children)
There will be nearly 330 million people out there doing the same thing. How long will that wood last?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 30 2019, @01:03PM (1 child)
Considering 99.99% of those people live in paved-over shitholes far away, my trees will last as long as I properly maintain them (coppicing is something we've been doing for thousands of years, and it works well).
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday March 30 2019, @11:53PM
There will be a market for that wood and people willing to supply it.
(Score: 3, Touché) by fyngyrz on Saturday March 30 2019, @04:15PM (1 child)
Enquiring minds wish to know.
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Diapers and Politicians should be changed often.
Both for the same reason.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday March 30 2019, @08:49PM
Me too
1."lobe" as the autocorrect version of something that was mean to be "love", the affective thing
2. too noisy and demanding for me. I don't mind them when kept by others, as long as they take care of their dogs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday March 30 2019, @05:39AM
I think my 25 year old diesel will still run after EMP providing I manually control the E4OD transmission with rheostats and toggle switches.
But, having said that, what's the likelihood that some authority simply confiscates the thing?
I think I would be wise to wire it so convolutedly that it will take someone else way too long to undo how much I monkeyed up the wiring.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]