The magic EMP-proof box
Even though U.S. scientists have known about electromagnetic pulses for quite some time – and, in fact, intentionally created them in the late 1950s and early 1960s during the Cold War – it’s been more recently that EMPs have entered the conversation for ordinary Americans. There is rising concern that a rogue nation or terrorist organization could seriously disrupt our power grids by detonating a nuclear weapon high above the United States or setting off an e-bomb that could do much damage on a more local level.
So isn’t it strange that a device with the capability of blocking or at least significantly reducing the effects of an EMP was invented prior to the Civil War? That’s when English scientist Michael Faraday created a cage that blocked external static and non-static electric fields. This enclosure was formed by conducting material or by a mesh of such material. Its operation depends on the fact that an external static electrical field will cause the electric charges within the cage to redistribute themselves to cancel the field’s effects in the cage’s interior.
It may not be realistic to build a Faraday cage around a country, or even a neighborhood, for that matter. But within your home it could protect your most valuable electronic equipment, including computers, during an EMP attack. Check out this explanation to learn how this device can protect electronic equipment from lightening strikes and electrostatic discharges.
Have you ever used or tried to build a Faraday cage? If so, let me know about your experience with that. Do you think that the technology that goes into the creation of a Faraday cage could ever be used to protect larger areas from EMPs? And why isn’t the government using this information? Hope to hear from you.
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While working in the electronics field we used 10′ x 10′ rooms that were “wrapped” with copper screens also the doors when closed would electrically be part of the screen.
Aren’t the common anti-static bags that sensitive computer peripherals (such as RAM and hard drives) come in, a type of Faraday cage? If so, I could just buy various sizes and store my external backup drive in it and my laptop when not in use, etc. Here is an example of the type bag I am referring to: http://www.extrapackaging.com/anti-static/zippered.php
When I was growing up (some 50 years ago) most houses, garages and barns had lightening rods on the roof with heavy metal ground lines that ran along the roof peak and down to the ground. The lightening rods are now considered antiques and are not often found. Could the use of lightening rods and ground lines be helpful if designing a Faraday cage for a home, and do you think that people should start putting them back on their houses (which would mean someone needs to start making them again).
No…. An EMP would not seek out your lightning rod. It will just blanket the earth/area with a pulse that will instantly put you back to circa 1849.
Needless to say, people will start to die off within hours of this event. There are articles written with just how the die off would progress, and the many many ways that will both surprise and shock you.
Regardless of what you do to protect yourself and your family, do you really think you have much of a chance for survival if you live in or near a big city? There are some movies out there that suggest you don’t really have a prayer any more than someone else. Let’s be realistic. Do you have access to a chopper to fly you elsewhere? Do you have a car like the POTUS does to protect him in hostile countries? Do you have an underground bunker you can safely live in that the neighbors don’t know about, and will you or someone in your family go nuts waiting for the moment to exit? AND, if you don’t have a gun, do you think slingshots, pots and pans and baseball bat’s are going to save you? Come on. Think about it. If you can’t handle chaos, and there will be chaos, you are doomed. Examples of what some have suggested. Grow your own food. Catch and save water. Have a pool for fish. If you live in an apartment, where are you going to do this? I know people that currently live in the country, AND THEY DON’T FEEL SAFE. Only solution is to pray, and maybe it will come out alright for you. There are crowded and blocked freeways in normal times. Do you remember the videos showing cars stacked up exiting from New Orleans? And, do you remember that people died there because they couldn’t escape, and the stadium they went to was a filthy mess? Guns were confiscated. People killed people. Put that on a massive scale and tell me you have all of that covered. Anyway, good luck.
Yea….scary stuff…indeed. 280,000,000 won’t die, but it will be very close to that kind of number.