Haha dude that happens all the time, I feel your pain. But, we all bring different and valuable perspectives to our own audiences so I consider it a win. The fact that multiple channels accidentally cover similar topics around the same time means we are collectively on the same wavelength. The big win is that we get people critically thinking about these subjects so they can make the wisest decisions possible. The fact that it’s all unplanned is just mind blowing. 😂 Can’t wait to see yours. I feel like we had to omit so much data and other perspectives just to get it at a decent timestamp.
I prepped for an EMP without even meaning to. I have an 80's diesel Defender without even a radio, an off grid cabin on a freshwater lake, and a very large library.
As I understand it it's unlikely that say Russia would launch one nuclear bomb EMP because even one launch would Trigger an entire Annihilation response so they would have to send everything and then we'd all end up in a nuclear winter, the few that survive. I imagine your odds are better than most either way.
@@yyy-875 Way ahead of you. Already on a well. Lake is stocked with fish, and drains into a pipe with a 3kw hydro turbine. Outbuilding has 3kw solar panels and a 12kw battery system. We have a 5kw USMC diesel generator, and a plastic to diesel conversion still for truck & genny fuel. Our cabin has two wood stoves, so we barely break 1kw as the electricity is only needed for our laziness and our central air. The windmill is our next addition, but it hasn't been necessary yet. We have a 1/2 acre garden for seasonal veggies, a micro green growing rack in the basement, a small greenhouse for cultivating micro green seeds, a small orchard of apple, pawpaw, and mulberry trees, and a great berry patch. We have goats for milk, quail for eggs, and three bee hives for honey. I also have a an extensive camera/alarm system on my property, and enough firepower to fend off a siege. We didn't even mean to prep like this. The cabin already had most of the stuff when we bought it, and the rest was just because we wanted some hobbies that could save us money and get us a farm tax credit. Next thing we knew we hadn't paid a utility bill or left the house for groceries or necessities in months, and had no need to head into town except to see a play or go to a restaurant.
My take on this video is: * Make sure my bicycle works. * Make sure I have enough fishing gear for a year without resupply. * Buy more Twinkies because they never go bad! Got it! Great video!!
Here's a thought. TRANSFORMERS? Thats the black swan. What if they ARE protected already and may be SECRETLY done in order to ATTRACT an EMP attack instead of other attack system giving us a great advantage to survive, identify the enemy and launch a response nuke attack (SURPRISE!) We shall see,
@@araina5896 true,we have two of them as well,totally "green" fascists.... but what are they gonna do!? run over us? one of them is vegan... i feel sorry for them in advance to put it mildly...
I spent three years in utilities. We just finished a major transmission line rebuild. Every component was stamped CHINA except for the actual towers. Which were made in Mexico. Think about that.
We are screwed for sure. I will still do my best to help rebuild when the time comes. You have to do the best you can for what you can actually control.
Electrician here, I feel like some of the products are a scam. The OBD2 Plug is basically useless since that plug is only there for communication, the actuall sensors and can system don't run through there, you can also see on the backside there is like 2 pins connected the rest is blank. The Ferrite around the cables is not going to do anything. The AC plug is only protecting the Mosfets, which are so beefy they are going to be unimpressed by an EMP, and not the sensitive switching circuit. The defcon could actually do something since it could in theory equalize the voltage across any part of the car, but then it's also adding long wires that are basically antennas for an EMP. And the plug with the green and red wires could also do something similar to the defcon, but it's leaving out the chassis. These products are also incredibly expensive for what they are, the diode they are using can be bought for cents plus a plastic box and some wires, the defcon for example probably costs them less than 25 bucks to make and they are charging 400 for it. If you want to protect your car against an EMP you should disconnect the battery terminals and tie them and your chase into your house's ground, this will prevent any voltage differential no matter how much power the EMP is pumping out, sadly it might also be impractical.
The GoDark Bag website has a bunch of BS about protecting you from 5G waves too. People have limited resources to use for being prepared and he's telling them to spend it on snake oil. Yikes. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to pick up on these scams.
Engineer here…i agree and im glad you mentioned this. Im too lazy to write a long explanation that nobody will read. These products are snake oil. I don’t blame users trying to prepare for a very complex topic.
@kylehill4437 I read it, and appreciate it. These videos are not sources I rely on, but depend upon to initiate conversations like this, so I can be better educated and hopefully, equipped to take care of my family. I'm a dad of a type 1 diabetic, and we heavily rely on tech to keep him alive and us sane. If an EMP attack were to occur, I'd like to have done something to care for him in advance, you know?
The thing about faraday bags (especially soft cover type) is you want to make sure they have been tested/vetted through a reputable laboratory. Lots of junk out there. And not all work for the same frequency bands and signal strength. due diligence is important on this one.
I have not ever sought out protection from an EMP - I just assumed it would wipe out all electronics and put us back in the horse-and-buggy era. You have given me hope! It sounds like there are some fairly easy ways to mitigate various dangers. I will be investigating more. Thank you.
@@TangoGulf In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war!.... It's a Warhammer 40K reference. And to try to explain it here, is not going to happen. There is way, way, WAY to much lore and background to..... it would be, literally days worth of videos, to fill you in. But if you want to learn, you can jump in literally anywhere and learn from there.
@@TangoGulfWhile I've been into WH40K for well over 20 years, and you are just getting into it...... I'm sorry, but not really. Cause if you like really nerdy shit, you will have fun. Just realize that the table top game is fucking expensive. The lore is just fun.
Same. Since the mid nineties. Waaaay too much lore. I used to hate Space Marines, but now that I’m older and the new models are not derpy, I kinda dig ‘em. Still love me some Chaos & Eldar though, lol
I'm educated on the subject. Good layman's overview. I appreciate the blurb pointing out the tech used in each protection device. MOVs are what we use for surge protection in utility scale equipment. I appreciate knowing it's not just a BS black box.
I was a shielded enclosure construction supervisor many years ago . Keep your larger items like nods,automotive ignition module etc. in a larger steel ammo can , remove the rubber gasket and clean the paint off the sealing surfaces like the channel and the edge , then get some steel wool and roll it into a continuous gasket or find the mesh gasket with the carbon impregnated rubber center as it's electrically conductive. Hope this helps
@@vern9093 There are a lot of videos on YT showing how to build faraday cages out of ammo cans and also metal trash cans. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2s8CpK6F7UM.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sBl552KdLbY.html
@@vern9093 Just snag some faraday cloth instead of steel wool. Close the conductive envelope, essentially. Microwaves, steel trashcans with lids. Just search DIY emp box. You'll find what you're looking for.
@Wangelectricsystems as long as there's no gaps and the material is ferrous, it should work the surface also should be corrosion free. We built many RF/ EMP/ Tempest. Some were panel type and others welded. The story I was told 40 years ago when I started out that a 40 megaton nuke over the geographic center of country world disable the entire system nationwide. That means even if you save some of your electronics working it's short lived as you'll run out of good fuel for your vehicles and you have to figure out how to keep comms working to your family and close neighbors. As far as vehicles get an diesel hmmv or any old gas car with points they're less susceptible to emp
One Second After rocked my world and was the first thing to actually get me serious about prepping. If I’m ready for that, I’m ready for anything. Of course I’m not ready for that but at least I’m working toward it.
It is a bit of a relief to see some channels finally taking the threat of large events that can generate an EMP a bit more seriously... I am an electronics engineer by trade, but I am also part of medieval re-enactment groups that do not use electricity at all... so I have a pretty good understanding of both sides of the question... There will be some that will "claim" that EMPs are not **THAT** bad.... uh huh... if that is the case, why are electronics packaged in ESD bags? Why is it important to wear a grounding cable when working on electronics and computers? The size of the device or chip only plays a part when looking at EMPs that can generate the pulse in long lines or antennas, **IF** they are not connected... The issue is about the same as if your device was struck by lightning... When you scuff your feet across a carpet to zap your buddy, you are storing and releasing an electrical charge... kind of like a capacitor... fur and glass are not electrically conductive but if you rub them together you can still transfer enough electrons to bend water and kill a microchip. Faraday cages are a great step, but those also require a lot of extra steps and care in their construction. Metal Oxide varistors are great for clamping electrical over voltages but they also have a capacity rating to take into account. Once you understand the potential forces you are going to likely deal with, then you can act accordingly... One reason you were not able to find much information on this topic is that it has been steadily removed from online sources... I still have the books that address many of these issues and the very real testing that was done at the time and has never made it into digital format. Bottom line is that governments do not want these things available to their citizens, much less their enemies, so it is withheld in the name of "national security"... I worked on many of these things over the years between the military, industry, and 'site hardening'... I really do not give a damn about what ANY naysayers might post, if the feces hit the rotary air mover, I will be living off of their supplies when they failed to address all the issues that modern governments might throw at them. One thing you definitely have correct is that one of the greater threats is other people... but secondarily is the long term survival and rebuilding and that requires knowledge in those basic sciences of chemistry, physics, biology. Aside from having ready survival basics and defensive measures, having a wide range of at least basic knowledge in those things and the ways we did things prior to electricity, will go a LONG way towards your longevity in crisis situations.
I recommend anyone that's afraid of EMPs to check out Dr. Arthur Bradley's video as I've found the whole topic is something that gets less scary the more you know about it. And a key thing to remember is just like you can install those simple devices on your cars to protect them, the private utilities that own the power plants have over-voltage and over-current protections in place to protect their equipment too. They don't want their multi-million dollar transformers to break either.
@@threat2demoracy5454I mean we did get a 1 Trillion Dollar infrastructure bill, I’m in the Civil Engineering field and literally 99.9% of the infrastructure is covered in that bill, there is even mentions that since the Hoover Dam already powers 1/3 of the country we can triple the flow rate and it will actually produce 6-10X as much power enough for the entire nation, there’s a reason that Dam has more security than the White House, deep down in the bill it even mentions the ability to upgrade power lines and protect them from power surges because of EMP type stuff
@@tjboylan20 Well son of a gun! I was not aware of any of that. Appreciate it! My dad used to be a Civil Engineer. Thanks for taking the time to share that u just changed my night. 👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Actually, the power grid protection is for lightning and mild E3 protection (5,000 V/M I think and not 50,000 V/M which can be the case with EMP). Our grid is on the verge of collapse as it is. Both electric vehicle charging and the massive power needed by AI can not currently be handled. The state of California and several major cities are already experiencing brown outs. The grid needs a lot of work and including EMP protection. I am an electrical engineer and well aware of grid problems and EMP.
I lived through Hurricane Ike and recently Beryl. 15 days with no electricity of any kind in the aftermath of Ike. 9 days after Beryl. Beryl hardly even brought much water to my area so at least I was able to leave. I slept on the patio outside because it was pushing 100 degrees inside my home. Elderly people died from heat stress and at least one person died when they couldn't get power to some sort of oxygen machine they needed. That was barely a week without a functioning electrical grid. A man made attack on the U.S. power grid would destroy this country in probably about 30 days. Way too much of our things rely not just on electricity, but the internet. Some people literally go insane when they're sitting in 100 degree heat, can't watch TV, can't cook food, and have no clue when/if they'll ever get to do those things again. Those hurricanes were isolated events. People from other towns came to help us (God, Bless Them!). A nationwide event would offer no such relief as we'd all be in the dark.
I have a bunch of questions for you if you don't mind answering, as I live in ND and haven't been able to learn about this. 1) What is the status of plumbing? Are you still able to get water from sinks, flush toilets, etc? If not, how long did it last before it stopped working? 2) What method of cooking do you use to cook food? I have a dual burner stove that runs on propane that I use for canning, but I am concerned about refilling the tanks if power is still out at the local gas station. 3) I am hearing reports of shootings targeting utility workers. Is any of that happening where you are at?
Hurricane Maria went pretty much ignored despite the fact that Puerto Rico is in fact US territory. The federal government did very little to step in and help with disaster recovery, which resulted in some areas being without power for months. Studies since have attributed THOUSANDS of deaths to the lack of power and infrastructure as people were unable to get medical care, supplies, etc. the official government death toll from the storm is much lower, because they only wanted to be track people who died from the weather and not those who died from administrative incompetence/apathy in the aftermath.
@@jchirschfeld1101 As a Floridian, I can answer some of these: 1. Plumbing varies. Most water plants are rather secure and maintain pressure. That said, if you're on a well and have no power, you're screwed. You should keep 3 gallons of water per person. 2. Gas, charcoal, etc. Typically tanks are available after a couple days, but keep extra if possible and don't be wasteful. 3. Never heard of utility workers being attacked. People want power back.
@MrSchism Thanks, I appreciate your input. I kind of was looking at this specific example, BECAUSE it has lasted so long. I wanted to see how ugly it can get in a scenario like this. Yeah, it's insane that people are shooting at utility workers, but it's happening.
My house is well over 100 years old, what used to be a cellar in the basement is now a galvanized sheet metal lined room, including door to “keep clean” for “storage” where I store old hand crank SW radios, a small genset, handheld radios, a couple old CB’s, basically a bunch of “old” electronics, I’m looking to add a “junk” old HAM radio set, to compliment the unit I use. I know it’s overkill, but it just “struck me”, my cellar is basically a faraday cage, hmm, that’s weird, I just wanted a storage room that was easy to keep clean for storage! Oh well! Oh, and an electrician friend also suggested that the east to clean wall coverings be well… WELL grounded just in case when presented with such a hypothetical situation, so it is, just in case.
if you say you're prepping but you don't study physics, you're not prepared. the level of ignorance on this topic is concerning, we need more of these explainer videos.
As an RF Engineer with heavy hands on experience I'd like to openly say an EMP is so much less of a threat as it was before when we had lower tech that got cooked back then during a mass ejection. Nobody ever notices how the "Air" is basically full during modern times, full of signals WiFi, Bluetooth, walkie, short waves, long waves, etc. Essentially the world around you in a city is so full of RF trash that all modern electronics have to be up to standards "to receive interference" and are designed to handle surviving constant RF radiation. Modern electronics when quality are "potted" in most cases significantly reducing the already low chance of arcing across components and juntions. Essentially modern equipment (when you keep up with the times) can mostly handle a stupid EMP/EMF/RF. Those people whom believe old tech is better and would hold up better are just nerfing their own capabilities. Old tech was overbuilt inefficiently so could handle things it really shouldn't have. Old components are also harder and harder to source daily if you were to try and make repairs. The cheapest way is to create a ground around an object without making contact, a Faraday enclosure. Ground it's self is a target to Ground through for RF EMF that cause charges, those high charges can run through and fry things trying to reach ground. A ground enclosure of the correct mesh to block the correct waves can prevent any RF EMF from reaching inside. Basically one of those cages that merds get in when they want a giant tesla coil to through lightning at them, the people survive the same way electronics would. Mesh size IS ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT TO THE WAVE SIZE IF USING MESH. that's why your microwave doesn't cook you through the window. 🤣 the waves are too large to fit through that mesh.
Man I was just going to say about mesh size, I’m no RF or any electrical Engineer but I did have to take some courses that covered it, I’m in the Civil Engineering field and specifically Structural Engineering so when we do government contracts, all I can say is they’re EMP proof, Bomb Proof, Fireproof, and even will survive Indirect Nuclear Weapons, instead of extra rebar in the concrete, Steel mesh is added into the concrete, it also helps that concrete is not a conductor, and wood isn’t either but you can penetrate through wood with RF.
It’s not about all of the gadgets and up to date tech. It’s our out of date grid. It’s my understanding from what I’ve read and heard from our own geniuses, that an EMP will wipe an entire region. That is, the exposed power grid near the site of detonation. So let’s say a region would be the size of a major city up to or even a multi-state area. So great, your gadgets will work fine as long as you can keep them charged, of course most can’t. 🤷🏻♂️
@@marcuse7322 well you see the infrastructure bill that was passed is going to completely upgrade the entire grid over the next 10 years, if you want to know a lot more about it the American Society Of Civil Engineers talk about every day pretty much
@marcuse7322 you are taking your heard "expert" advice and I suggested mine based on decades of my own personal first hand knowledge. Basically you brought hearsay to argue against shit I can physically prove and back up with data 🤣 I'm not here to argue about what you heard from someone I'm only stating reality based on real experience. Keep your mind closed and fold into the dark quietly.
Check out some RU-vid videos on how to make your own with manilla envelopes, foil, and duct tape. I've made a few and tested them. They DO work and block signals. Cheaper than the cost of some popular brand bags that have quite a few negative reviews on performance. Just a suggestion. Take about 15 mins per bag to make.
Watch the brass facts video on emp. He is an engineer and gun guy. Emps are not as bad as people think for individual electronics. They are bad for power plants.
Those devices are all on Amazon. The small ones are $70, the Defcon unit is $440. You educated me today, and I thank you for that. I should have done this a long time ago. I have three cars, so for $1500 I can put these on all three and hope at least one car makes it through. As for the home, well, that's a different story. Keep plenty of non-refrigerated food in storage and a means to cook it. I welded up a rocket stove out of a new propane tank and some 3/16"" flat steel. Just the twigs in my yard can cook meals.
The king of cost effective EMP protection is a Home Depot bin with faraday tape. It’s not perfect, but it will give you that piece of mind for those items that aren’t actively in use.
If you also line it with copper and a layer of insulation so that your things are not touching the wall. It may work. Technically you need 1/8 thick steel to make sure. Jonathan Hollerman is the Expert on EMP issues of all kinds and has been for years. Check out his books, Survival Theory 1 & 2.
Tests on youtube are largely accepted even though the tests are mpstly only validating showing reduction of RF. Not EMP. The real test is of course "the big one". If that happens, no one would be able to go to get their $ back would they? Probably no one to come take your claim either. Skeptical? How would you stop magnetic wave from passing though anything?? An invisible force. Trap it in a sacrificial metal passing it around your possessions to the direction said wave is travelling?? I dunno.😮
1. Your vehicle is already a partial ungrounded faraday cage theoretically offering some protection from the effects of an EMP with no modifications. 2. Your battery and all electronics in your vehicle are already grounded to the body of the vehicle (which is where the EMP Shield claims to "shunt" the current created by an EMP) making the EMP shield redundant. 3. The video admitted there has not been a comprehensive test of the vehicle EMP protection equipment. 4. The video also admitted that plug in surge protectors do not work to protect from EMP generated power surges in the home (and the EMP Shield is basically a surge protector for your car's DC electrical system). 5. Spend your money on something else.
Although blunt. Yes but the information is still great like the vid. I would say the only thing good is that vehicle surge protector. Probably cheaper onces online. You never know when you need to gtfo. A vehicle is a must. Just rarely use it. Because it does alert attention
All OBD-1 Vehicles Would Still Be Functional After An EMP This Is Because OBD-1 Doesn't Use Software But OBD-2 Uses Software And As Such An EMP Would Scramble The System Software And Would Require A Reflash So Even Though The Hardware Would Be Totally Fine After An EMP That Software Reflash Issue Would Render Every Electronic Device That Runs On Software Completely Functionless However Your VCR Would Still Record And Playback VHS Tapes Your Cassette Deck Would Still Work And So Would 8-Track Tapes This Is Because Magnetic Storage Mediums Like Those DO NOT Rely On Software To Record And Store The Information Microprocessors And Solid-State Storage Mediums Would Still Be Functional At The Hardware Level But Without Software To Tell The Little Transistors When To Turn On And Off The Information Stored In Them Would Be Unrecoverable Yeah Sorry But Digital Is No Match For Analog An EMP Won't Even Put A Skip In Analog Electronics
That OBD2 port thing (a diode LOL?) is just killed it for me. I know electronics a little bit and this part just smells super bad. I'm not paying $70 for a diode and a fuse in my OBD2 port....
Damn!!! You got it dead on! Ive never known anybody who knew what the effects of a coronal hole ejection would be like. Kudos... worth a sub over here. Lightning arrestor. Not one of those cheap surge strips, but a real lightning arrestor. Ham Radio makes use of em. A Lightning Arrestor will help ground out the massive input surge on your power line. Military Shielding for EMP attacks begin at 10,000 volts per yard, but these are assumed to be right there, front and center under attack. All I can say is make a (grounded) Faraday Cage and stash your tronix preps in it. Faraday Cage: Take some metal screen, line the walls and ceiling with it, floor would be good too. Tie each portion to the next with a conducting tie so each can conduct to the one next to it. Ground it. The cage will intercept the EMP. Within the cages there will be no EMP but let nothing touch the cage conductors themselves. Poor Mans Faraday Cage: All metal outside trash can with all metal lid. All metal dumpster. Keep the lid on. Inside is protected. Outside is not. Be sure to ground it. Feeling frisky? Buy an old fashioned all metal camper or trailer and fix it up. Metal screen can fill the gaps. Worried about the car? Metal Screen the walls and ceiling of your garage. Copper is best Metal Screen. Bronze or brass is still great. Steel is good. Aluminum... eh, its metal, it will work... not best, but its metal. So far as the toys shown... nah. Protection is not additive. Putting five devices at 5kV does not yield 25 KV... just the 5. It can limit the impulse. Better than nothing.
@@lordhuck2689HOB Is a Sensored Fuse In Weapons That Usually Works Either With A Small Doppler Ranging Radar Altimeter In Them Like The DSU-33 Used on GP Bombs ( Mk.80 Series , JDAM … you name it ) Or Barometric Fuse Which Senses Altitude Based on Air Pressure and Plus some more methods The Height of Burst Is Preset ( Before Launch ) and Used To Maximize Damage For Certain Goals Like , DSU-33 Has a Fixed HOB of 20 feet with Error of about +3/-3 Feet meaning when the bomb is 20 feet above ground , DSU-33 Will Send a Signal Pulse to a Fuse Like FMU-139 or 152 To Initiate Detonation Used With Mk.80 Series It Is an Extremely Lethal Anti Personnel Weapon ( Other Fuses That are impact Fuse , When They Detonate The Ground Tanks A Decent amount of Force and Shrapnels , if bomb explodes before hitting ground , There is nothing in its way to tank the Force except for targets , before DSU-33s there were Fuse Extensions like M1A1 Daisy Cutters which was basically a Comp B Filled 36 inch tubes that you can stack on eachother and slap a Impact Fuse Like M904 on the end and Mk.80 series bomb on the other end and that gives you a physical Height of Burst For Same Effect as DSU-33 ) Nuclear Weapons Also Use Proximity Fuse For Same Reason To Maximize Damage and Lethality They Explode at a Certain Altitude and That Altitude is Set By HOB Hope This Answered all your questions
Faraday bags are relatively inexpensive and are an insurance policy for things like comms, data storage, and even whole firearms with all the "lights and lasers".
@@supfoo3638 They Wouldn't Anything That Uses OBD-2 Is Gonna Be Rendered Functionless Due To The Software Dependency But If You Could Roll That Back To OBD-1 It Would Work Because OBD-1 Is Analog The Software Is Where The Vulnerability Is At Not The Electronics Themselves A Nationwide EMP Would Knock Out The Internet Across The Entire Country What Does That Mean For You It Means No Bank Accounts No Economic Activity No Bureaucracy And No Flow of Information All Vital Records Would Be Lost You Would Go From American Citizen To Illegal Immigrant Overnight Your Car Won't Start Would Be The Least of Your Problems As Swat Teams And Police Officers Are Escorting You Off The Continent Because Guess What Nobody Uses Paper Anymore That Birth Certificate You Got At The Hospital Is Not "admissible" Evidence To Prove Your American Because The Digital Standard Has Taken Priority In Every Walk of American Professional Life Without The Internet America Ceases To Exist Trucks Would Stop Delivery of Goods And Services Not Because The Trucks Won't Start But Because The Digital Manifests Would Be Unrecoverable The Very Rules That Bring About The Digital Society We Live In Would Require Breaking Those Rules To Keep The Money Goods And Services Moving Basically The Entire Economy Would Cease To Exist Without Internet Access And Whose Fault Is That For Allowing The Internet To Become Such A Big Part of America So Much So That Drastic Reform of The Law Would Be Required For The Economy To Continue After An EMP It Would Be The Damage To Property And Infrastructure That Causes The SHTF It Would Be The Lack of Trust For Others And The Inability To Consult The Third Party That Is The Internet To Undermine This Trust In Others You Would Be Forced To Trust People You Normally Wouldn't And Some People Won't Do That And Those People Are The Problem
From a technical point of view, EMPs are very simple. There are essentially three variables to consider when estimating the effect: - How much energy is released in the event and how long is the event itself? - How is this energy distributed across the frequency spectrum? - How far away from the initial event is the affected system? What is the cross section (circle segment vs. the whole circle) of the affected system? Frequency inversely relates to wavelength, energy over time is power; so, we know how much power is available to be coupled into the affected system, and we know how much of that power is available at each wavelength, and the dampening factor due to the distance inverse square law and the cross-section. In the affected system, every electrical connection (trace on a PCB, cable, trace on a silicon chip, bond wire inside a chip package, lead wire to a part package etc.) has a length and thus for a specific set of frequencies acts as an antenna. An antenna is very effective when its length is an odd integer multiple of a quarter wavelength. With that, you can calculate the maximum theoretical amount of power coupled into the antenna, which tells you the damage potential. Now, all you need to do is add up the damage potential of a gazillion things connected and affected and you arrive at the potential maximum damage to be expected from such an event in the worst case (that's what you learned Calculus for, guys). Reality is probably somewhat smaller than that theoretical maximum, but then again, probably it's going to be bad enough. Anyway, if you acknowledge the physical foundations of the things at play and do a tiny bit of legwork, you can take the guesswork out of the question largely. And then again, looking at those first principles, you can also judge whether some measure of protection from an EMP event will actually offer protection; a faraday cage is only effective against signals with wavelengths smaller than its own dimensions, and if there is enough energy in very low frequencies, even devices in a cage may get fried as a consequence (e.g. if there is a large old-school transformer in the power supply that happens to be tuned to just the right frequency band to be susceptible).
One thing to think of to add to the vehicle protecting which I also use, don't forget your chipped keys and fobs. I'd recommend getting one of the go dark FOB vault and put your spare in it and hide it in your vehicle some where secure.
William forstchen was a history professor at Montreat College in North Carolina. Not really an emp expert. Agreed amazing and entertaining novel. Loved all three
Read the preface and understand why it was written at encouragement when our congress was ignoring the implications! Note: aluminum trash can plus EMP copper mesh fabric with cardboard liner and all seams sealed w aluminum tape has been tested with close HhR signals at < 20 ft seems to work…..
I was thinking. TRANSFORMERS? Thats the black swan. What if they ARE protected already and may be SECRETLY done in order to ATTRACT an EMP attack instead of other attack system giving us a great advantage to survive, identify the enemy and launch a response nuke attack (SURPRISE!) We shall see,
EMP a way less of a worry compared to the impact to my bank account buying any of these things I'd need to protect since I'm not backed by sponsors, you probably made 1/3 of my salary from this 1 video after the various sponsors and links in desc
1. We straight up say this should not be a high priority. 2. You have a grossly inflated perspective about how much people earn from RU-vid. 3. Zero of the EMP products were provided or discounted and Zero EMP companies sponsored this or any other video we’ve ever done. We purchased things at full price after doing our own research. We are legally and ethically obligated to tell you otherwise. 4. We reported on the EMP Commission findings that only a few out of 55 vehicles had major damage after EMP testing. Any product is optional is only about mitigating an already small issue statistically. 5. 🤙
@@dirty-civilian all I can say is don't waste money on any of that crap, instead buy a good book on emi shielding as all an emp is emi by another name, once you understand it, making a MOV clamp and or zenar type clamp will be easy these are very common circuits through out electronic syou can combine them, the name of the game is clamping the voltage rail to a not go above nominal.
One word of warning that I have not heard anyone talk about, is that CMEs may last for several days or weeks. So don't just break out all your protected electronic gear as soon as an EMP happens. Wait a week or two or those things that were once protected get fried as soon as or the next day after you bring them out to use, thinking its all good. With CMEs, it isn't. Wait a week or two before pulling out your gear, after a CME. Or you may regret it! Godspeed!
Thank you for this video. You've learned more than me about the CME and nuke emp threats, but one that I experienced recently, and is apparently pretty common, is the EMP produced in the near vicinity of lighting strikes. I've had 3 strikes recently about 25 feet from my house. They took out about 10% of my electronics, like you mentioned, cheap/sensitive electronics like transformers and power adapters made in China. They were plugged into professional-grade high joule surge protectors, but this electromagnetic pulse didn't go through the electric wires, it radiated through the air in every direction in the vicinity from the lighting bolt. I realized how common these small EMPs are and the need for protection of electronics that I want to continue working. Luckily most items shorted out were under warranty and replaced for free. The intensity of the EMP depends on the length and power of the lightening bolt and the atmospheric conditions, so I'm sure there are more powerful ones than I experienced.
We actually have seen basically an EMP type of effect quite recently in 2022 which knocked down starlink satallites and 2024 which was causing issues with gps and delayed farmers using gps enabled farming equipment to harvest. Very nice breakdown video!
Hey man if you want some little devices with a little led light and some caps to totally capture and protect your vehicle. Aliexpress has em for $1. It will work the same as the $400 box.
@@StarkartOrg-urban-art-gallery im poking fun at the devices and our little hopes that putting a couple extra ground loops and caps for holding back an emp's effects. If an emp is going to be powerful enough to fry the standard electronics of today that are already shielded, adding a little plug in ground loop with a small energy storage source is gonna do soooo much.
It wasnt that powerful friend. I've been watching them for years. Strong is a better term. We have been hit with similar many times. The auroras were visible because our magnetic field is weakening.
I'm glad you covered this, tho EMP won't kill all electronic device's it will kill a lot of them proximity will be key and what kind of magnetic resistance the item has already, or the storage/location of the items when it kicks off. Magnets can erase credit cards certain older TV screens anything with a chips (potentially) only tube items are safer end, items with magnetic protection and properly grounded storage.
As an "old head" I am very proficient in none technological warrior tasks and drills. Map & compass land nav is something I have a high proficiency, I can navigate with only a map and no compass. Downside is I have a skill gap with the new technological systems. Thats my focus to learn. But our newest bodies are too reliant on the technology. With the battle space pushing more drones and deadly tech, the more likely we will see some type of system to counter that which would push everything back to the need for the basic non tech skills. I say that just to basically say learn both. Have the tech if possible, now the tech intimately, be proficient with that tech AND be proficient with the basics and how to work without that technology for navigation, communication, etc. Being well rounded will always be an advantage.
Too many are wantonly ignorant that employment and reliance on many electronic devices amounts to putting on a radio collar… Same with many laser devices.
Small note I want to add about the defcon device. If you plan on adding one to a vehicle be aware of parasitic draw on your battery. I'm not sure if the green light stays on all the time but if it does then it would slowly drain the battery over time.
For context, I'm an electrician and have been for over 9 years. I've had an idea for a while now of essentially a very large fairaday cage, It would cost about $5K to make. First you get a connex shipping container for $3K-$4K, you set it on top of crossties or some other wood to insulate it from the ground, then you mount lightning protection probes to the roof of the shipping container and run a large ground cable down to a grounding ring in the earth that goes around your container. The lighting probes and ground ring should absorb the pulse and direct it to the better source of ground, that is your grounding ring. The metal shipping container will add another layer of protection for all of your devices inside, you could store spare electronics inside of the connex, as well as you could keep your solar charge controller and your batteries for your solar system inside to protect them.
So you insulate the connex box and then you say to ground it into a grounding system... Did you really think that through? Seems like properly grounding with more steps.
Good job on the video. What you called the E3 risk is the main thing to be concerned about. Not much you can do about it. Small electronic device in a desk drawer is not really at risk. Most of the EMP protection devices are a waste of time and money. A cheap option that may reduce the impact of E1 and E2 are the silver mylar bags and pink foam that some computer parts are shipped in. The pink foam protects from static electricity and the silver mylar helps to reduce external radiation. Put your device inside of the pink foam and then inside of the mylar bag so nothing is touching the inside of the mylar bag.
I ended up getting a Mission Darkness EMP proof faraday generator bag. $500 and its their biggest bag. I threw all my cool guy tactical gear, commos, rifles and NODS in there along with other faraday containers.
I made a very nice "Faraday Box" from a steel 20mm ammo box ($15). I bought it at a surplus store, and it took me about 45 minutes and $0.25 worth of aluminum foil to "modify" the seal on it to block EMP transmissions - it works perfectly.
Cool I used to work with 20mm ammo cans for years (parents had a military surplus store). The seal in the lid is made of a large rectangular rubber o-ring. I take it you used the foil along it for continuity.
@@CDMaclintock nah, to not be able to connect to GSM stations is not the same as EMP protection. You block some frequencies, surely. But do you block energy? After reading your statement that block EMP transmissions, I was assuming you at least tested it with some sort of device. At this point, even if this work, you are just gambling.
Here's a solution for fuel problems when it comes to generators. Get a searl effect generator. It requires no fuel and uses magnetic energy. It has tracks in it with magnets on the walls and there's a bunch of steel cylinders that moves around the tracks really fast like Nascars on the Brickyard 400.
On the topic of regarding this as a "HILF"... specifically the "low frequency" part: It's not _just_ nuclear & solar EMP's to worry about. It's difficult to be real specific. But if the USAF or VVF decide "F all the the electronics in that local area in particular", then the warranty on all the electronics in your town, or county, can be voided at the push of a button in a variety of aircraft, with no 'bang' involved. And yes, it has even happened by accident. Ironically, it's not very effective at disabling military equipment, at least not "near-peer" military equipment. Export hardware typically lacks some of the bells & whistles. Anyway EW isn't just for making jam. There's also lightning. At very short distances, it can sometimes have a similar effect. That's why you can "hear" lightning before the thunder arrives on a radio. If lightning strikes very close (like "in your yard") then depending on it's energy level, it 'can' possibly fry a few things which aren't even plugged in. One thing to remember is that while micro-electronics have a smaller area, they also have much smaller current tolerance at the node-level on a microchip. I have a, uh.. governmental aerospace frame of reference, and I don't have even a fraction of the $-htf stuff you do. But I have a faraday house. It doesn't seem like a low-frequency possibility to me (pun intended). It's not a bad idea for just general health even, if you live next to an airport or cell tower. I can tell which runway the local AFB is using because it changes my wifi range. Oh, speaking of... the more faraday your house, the weaker your cell signal & radio or broadcase tv reception. So... that's a factor to consider. Have aluminum siding (or concrete or adobe construction, or steel siding), metal screen windows, and use reflective foil insulation on the inside of your roof, put foil insulation in your garage... and you'll have fairly minimized home problems. Probably worth just lining a closet with foil inside. Not the real thin cooking foil, just get a heavier gauge that won't tear so easily. Anyway, you can install it with a utility blade and duct tape. The only weird part is that you'll be doing the floor too. It's like a $20 closet mod though, takes maybe an hour. You can put a few "definitely need this" things in there for an extra layer of protection. Also, basement is less of a problem than upstairs, a conductive foil is ideal, but just 'mass' blocks quite a bit.
Ive read into this subject very deep. For EMP to work alternating current AC has to be powered-on, a device such as a big transformer. When the blast occurs there are three ways of energy. The second wave force pushes the AC electrons in one direction for a short time. Now this becomes direct current DC. Putting DC into AC equipment will burn it. In simple terms, this is how EMP destroys electronics. If electronics are OFF then they will not be destroyed.
Everyone acts like they know everything when it comes to emps. But they really don't. Maybe, maybe not. It would be better protected if you parked it in a metal shed or even more with a storage container.
They have emp surge protectors that cost a couple hundred dollars and can be installed on any system to prevent it from blowing when a emp or solar flare hits. They can be installed on everything from cars to data centers to main home panels you can take them and create boxes where u can store any electronics inside plugging them into the same circuit as the protector. Basically it can protect whatever electronic that has a potential to be burnt out from a emp can pretty much be protected with these devices. It basicaly takes the brunt of the emp sending the surge to itself burning the emp protector out instead of destroying the entire system that its installed on to protect like what would happen without the emp surge protector. The military has them installed all over the place these things were intially designed to protect against nuclear missle generated emps so its pretty beefy and can take the most powerfull type we could experience if therres a high altitude explosion over north america. So yeah buy some, put one in your car, one in your home, one on a generator. Make a box store a complete setup of combat gear, radios, coms, batteries, chargers, ect, then throw it all in your garage and forget about it because even if you have these protectors they will do you no good unlesswhat you want protected is plugged in when the emp hits wich no one can predict
Think of primary and secondary protection. Eg - initial EMP: wipes out unprotected devices. We pull out our protected devices and do a little dance. Second EMP...
My plan when I build my next house is to integrate a guider cage wrapping around my entire garage. That's where all the batteries are the solar panels will be that's where the cars are and have a e3 rated surge protector in between the house and the grid and the solar panels and the garage
@@triggerpointtechnologyA Faraday cage is a specific set of designs within the guider cage concept. In fact, the only reason Faraday bags have the name is for marketing purposes, since they do not use a Faraday design.
I am an EMP expert. Let's hear what you have to say... 1) Should EMP protection be on the priority list? Yes. 2) Do Faraday bags work? Partially. Ideally, you'll want a Faraday sphere, the smaller the better. 3) Grid effects: Largely attenuated by transformers and excessive voltage (airgap) shunts. 4) Nuclear EMP: Sharp pulse. To combat it, build and live underground. Proper EMP hardening uses multiple Faraday levels and a variety of shuts. I have an old laptop inside a microwave, which I keep plugged into the wall for grounding. The laptop also in a Faraday ellipse of aluminum, an insulating layer, then inside copper mesh. I recharge it once a month. As for transportation, I live 2 miles away from stores, relatives and friends. I have 2 bicycles, along with my son's old baby carrier.
I agree with you in many ways. However under the Carrington only long wires were affected. Trash cans did not explode. Horse and buggies did not break down and they had lots of metal in them. WIRE FENCES did not have reports of setting fires like telegraph wires did. EMP needs LONG LINES to gather the energy. IE TELEGRAPH WIRES. If you car , phone, solar, etc is not plugged into the grid it will not be affected. In ADDITION the towers need GOOD GOUNDING like in QUEBEC GRID DOWN. GRANIT, like the NY, not sandstone or dirt. And there are rings of power which attenuate with distance. Most of the country will be unaffected. Power outage will be common in areas but in a grid down I went throuh our ENTIRE GRID in upstate NY was taken OFF THE POLES by ice. 30 days it was all back. TRANSFORMERS? Thats the black swan. We shall see, or not
@@fladave99devices do NOT need to be powered to fry.... It will attack microcontrollers, processors and blow capacitors. Many vehicle electronics will fry at 16-18 volts! And it only takes ONE of the thousands of components in new vehicles to make it inoperable! OF COURSE these devices are completely potted to hide the truth! It's ALL disinformation and you know these companies are making these people sign NDAs and it's sad they are ok with scamming their followers!
most of your CPUs manufactured after the 90s have rudimentary faraday cages that are the heatsinks/transfer plate. and most car ECUs are shielded to block interference already. EMPs just aren't up to snuff yet.
The amount of the pulse across that small square area is not the problem. The pulse is arsorbed by wires, they basically acting as antennas. All the wires throughout you vehicle are connected somehow to your ECU. Learn more before commenting.
@OrganikSecrets every connection to your ecu and ecm are fused with up to 60amp fuses/relays. If a surge that powerful came across the wires, they would melt and catch fire. Like I said, EMPs are not up to snuff yet.
While I am no longer in the industry, I spent 30 years installing EMP hardening for the US Navy. The program you want to research is called Tempest. Tempest is the guide to how we did our EMP hardening and to prevent compromising emanations from electronic data processing equipment. not all of it is classified, so if you are interested it can be fascinating reading. I will tell you that the faraday bags are effective at blocking low power RF like a cell signal but I assure you they will not stop the effects of an EMP weapon. I would love to tell you how to properly stop an EMP but its classified and I would not do well in prison.
good video, only thing I would add is metal trash can.... buy a couple of those old school round metal trash cans or anything like that. they are a perfect emp storage solution other than the inconvenient shape.
@@user-gn1cl9ix7p 1Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
EPRI (the research arm of the entire US Electric industry) has done a EMP study (over 3 years in the making) which one of their conclusions was "Research findings do not support the notion of blackouts encompassing the contiguous United States (CONUS) and lasting for many months to years". In fact they believe it would only result in possible regional black outs ...that we've have already experienced and recovered from. However, EPRI's report did kickoff an effort to further protect the grid against EMP. Also, the report said large xfmr will unlikely to have significant damage as to make them inoperable. The actual problem to the grid, is voltage collaspe...as previous recovered from blackouts have been the victim of (ref:2003 Northeast blackout)
Did the study distinguish between a coronal mass ejection versus nuclear explosion in the atmosphere? I always understood the potential effects of an extreme solar event being what you describe (studies I read around 12 years ago suggested that much of the Eastern seaboard would succumb to such an event), but people confuse a CME with a nuclear explosion which has different effects upon electronics as well as overloading of the electrical grid.
@@Thermopylae2007 no its was for a nuke emp. However, CME has also been studied and even experienced on the grid already. Its main problem is on large xfmrs..which the video rightly indicates are not adequately backed up with spares, nor easy/quickly to manufacture...in fact I doubt there's any US based capability...seems like Siemens is like the main goto. Frankly, the xfmr problems is more a weak point for terroist to exploit....as has been recently done.
I moved to a small town in the middle of the desert. Since EMPs have a range of 5 miles, i am not going to worry about it! Instead, i would find an alternate to the internet when it goes down.
Great video but the music thumping in the background is unnecessary. I mean, why? This is not an action movie so how does the thumping help you get your point across? Otherwise, this is one of the best presentations on EMP that I've ever seen.
Lets be honest the people complaining and saying an EMP would render everything useless are the type of people who would have their life somehow made more useless by an EMP
Another suggestion may be to learn how to *create* batteries, such as lead-acid batteries. This way you are good to go with simple and easy-to-access supplies and you can charge them using an alternator and a bicycle, a windmill, or any other creative mechanism.
my favorite thing about all these edgelord prep survivalist. Is you seem to think at the end of the world im going to be following current laws and what nots. Like with out laws and regulations protecting people from messing with your equipement, its all fairly worthless. Now lets fast forward to the apocalypse. See how much them comms work while im jamming my whole AO since me and the bois train with out them. See how nice them combat boots are after i laugh at you for stepping on a toe popper. Etc... Bunch of larpers.
Thank you for this video. I feel that it provides a level of understanding with where to start. I too am terrified of an emp strike; knowing it's usually a precursor to something much worse (i.e land invasion and/or a full scale nuclear detonation). I also feel your message, pertaining to community, is a reality check for anyone getting into preparedness as a whole. Thanks for your research & presentation! Lastly, would it be possible to have your permission to show this video when consulting with other preparedness oriented people?
