Look at it's losses!
It makes more sense to get electric power from natural gas at your own home. Generators with moving parts are not good so ecelerated R&D on natural gas fuel cells make a boat load of sense.
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| China, Russia Building Super-EMP Bombs for ‘Blackout Warfare' |
| 2019-01-25 |
| [Free Beacon] Several nations, including China and Russia, are building powerful nuclear bombs designed to produce super-electromagnetic pulse (EMP) waves capable of devastating all electronics‐from computers to electric grids‐for hundreds of miles, according to a newly-released congressional study. A report by the now-defunct Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from EMP Attack, for the first time reveals details on how nuclear EMP weapons are integrated into the military doctrines of China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. The report discloses how those states could use EMP attacks in theaters of battle in the Middle East, Far East, Europe, and North America. "Nuclear EMP attack is part of the military doctrines, plans, and exercises of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran for a revolutionary new way of warfare against military forces and civilian critical infrastructures by cyber, sabotage, and EMP," the report states. "This new way of warfare is called many things by many nations: In Russia, China, and Iran it is called Sixth Generation Warfare, Non-Contact Warfare, Electronic Warfare, Total Information Warfare, and Cyber Warfare." Nuclear-electronic warfare also is called "Blackout War" because of its effects on all electronic devices. EMP attacks will be carried out at such high altitudes they will produce no blast or other immediate effects harmful to humans. Instead, three types of EMP waves in seconds damage electronics and the strikes are regarded by adversaries as not an act of nuclear war. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 If they can make a natural gas fuel cell small and light enough even Tesla could dump most of their batteries and go with it. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-01-25 22:33 |
| #10 My comment is the electric power grid is a friking bad idea. Look at it's losses! It makes more sense to get electric power from natural gas at your own home. Generators with moving parts are not good so ecelerated R&D on natural gas fuel cells make a boat load of sense. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-01-25 22:31 |
| #9 An opening for some inventor to devise a better way to make transformers, mayhap a transformer that is more resistant to power surges like lightning strikes and EMP pulses. The Sun will hit us with another Carrington Event coronal discharge eventually. |
| Posted by: magpie 2019-01-25 15:09 |
| #8 Politicians that didn't make our infrastructure EMP resistant back during the cold war should be sued for malpractice. Having said that an EMP that would kill people vs one that would blackout a nation look the same when coming inbound on a missile. Such a move would be suicide if aimed at a nuclear power. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-01-25 15:05 |
| #7 Video of Libyans pulling gas out of tanks with dixie cups. Video +2 minutes mechanical hand pump ordered. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-01-25 12:30 |
| #6 ...no power for the pumps at the gas station. If their tanks aren't full for the zombie apocalypse, they'll be the zombies. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-01-25 10:53 |
| #5 Excluding those in the inner sanctums, if the world's power got shut off, I'd take North America as the first to recover. Rural midwest and southeast would be why. Lots of prepper, and rural folk still have skills. Add in Texas, has its own powergrid not part of the east or west grid, plenty of petroleum and refineries that could be recovered quickly. Not to mention large amounts of military there. Just fence off Houston and Austin and Dallas until the urbanites collapse. |
| Posted by: Glolush Whusotch4899 2019-01-25 10:16 |
| #4 *snorg!* Farging nuclear clock scam now includes climate change. It is a wonderful picture, generation cupie fire ant marching to Beijing after their smart things get zapped. Can't you see 'thar jillette blades 'gleaming! As soon as they figure how to use a paper map. Or a compass. Or a can opener. I take comfort in the fact that the worm has turned from 'go rural cuz that where food comes from' to 'Go to Whole Foods cuz that's where food comes from'. Excluding those in the inner sanctums, if the world's power got shut off, I'd take North America as the first to recover. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-01-25 09:37 |
| #3 ^ Yeah, cuz tens of millions of Americans totally wouldn't care if you bricked all their toys. |
| Posted by: Voldemort Theck4956 2019-01-25 08:47 |
| #2 the strikes are regarded by adversaries as not an act of nuclear war. Wanna bet? |
| Posted by: Jack Greagum5721 2019-01-25 08:19 |
| #1 You can make your electrical grid EMP resistant, but that would employ a bunch of burly toxic masculinity in work. Why do that when you can better spend the money on a million illegals for the next voting cycle. Not a hard decision for one part of the political animal. Now if one of those suckers goes off, everything becomes decentralized and local eliminating the entire point of corrupting a centralized swamp. It's worth the gamble isn't it? /rhet question |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-01-25 08:10 |