Why an EMP Attack is Worse than You Think
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- Without electricity, life as we know it will end. But what could possibly interrupt the electricity in modern societies? If it's not an EMP attack, it will be the sun. Getting hit with by the Sun's massive solar flares that would literally burn the electrical transformers of the power grid and other electronics, is just a matter of time. According to NASA, there is a 12% chance that it will happen in this decade, and the decade after, and the one after that ... until it eventually does. But how you would be able to continue watching our channel with no electricity at thome, is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs
00:00 What Would Happen if American Grid Fails?
3:57 How EMP Works
5:19 Non-Nuclear EMP, Balloons & Delivery Systems
6:52 How damaging the EMP Actually is?
9:14 Why Large Transformers are the Achilles Heel of the American Electricity Grid
13:21 How Sun could produce EMP and Blackout the Earth
15:37 Why Grid Sabotage is a Real Frequently Occurring Threat
16:49 How Likely is the EMP Attack & the Great Illusion
18:31 Before You Run to the Grocery Store
Music:
Informal Parameters - Charles Holme
Serious Development - Blackout Memories
Upon Entering Another Realm - Brendon Moeller
Head Games - Max Anson
The Mole - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Cloak - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Checked In - Jay Varton
Danger Sun - Max Anson
Covert Affairs - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Thyone - Ben Elson
Bittersweet Lament - Max Anson
Inbound - Brendon Moeller
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I am in the nuclear industry as an scientific officer/ engineer.
Nuclear power plant needs 7 days of continuous cooling after shutdown, and post that the passive cooling (natural convection) will take care.
This is a basic design principal !
Solar flair won't blast off nuclear power plants.
Edit : "nuclear power plants", and also plenty of spelling mistakes to actually prove that i am an (enginere),( engenere), (engeneer) , i am good with math.
I'm in the spelling industry. You meant "principle"' and "flare".
thanks for clarifying, its possible we either misunderstood Dr. Pry (from his interview @5:35 th-cam.com/video/gJCheiAX8D8/w-d-xo.html) or he was wrong. Will look further into it
EDIT: Additional reference for the EMP Task Force claiming that Fukushima-Like Disaster can happen as a result of an EMP Attack - PDF File www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1127/ML11279A118.pdf
bro edited the comment and still left out spelling mistakes 😭
@@NotWhatYouThink leave him, he's indian. These p*jeets don't even know how to run their own reactors cuz it's soviet tech that too cold war era.
@@LanaaAmor haha true story!
Nuclear reactors only need a couple days of backup fuel to cool down- not an indefinite supply.
yea, this fact alone made me question the credibility of the research behind this video.
Need way more than a couple of days to cool the spent fuel in the pool before they can be put into dry storage. Usually for several years.
The pool would need to have cooling system otherwise water just going keep boiling off and needs to be constantly refilled every few days. So you would need the fuel to run the generator for the pool cooling fir several years at least.
They need a couple of days/hours to come down from their 10% remaining heating power after the initial shutdown, true. But you still need to run the cooling system afterwards as the heat has to go somewhere. Even 0.1% of a Gigawatt powerplaine is still a megawatt of energy you have to remove somehow.
@@hawkanonymous2610 that is true for a shutdown but in this case the fuel rods would be removed!
@@hawkanonymous2610afterwards yes... for, depending on exact reactor design, between 2-3 weeks before the cooling could be very safely shut off. Some reactors even have batteries that can run the cooling systems on a low setting for a very long time in case the backup fuel isn't enough.
Yes, more than days like what you were getting at. But 2-3 weeks of generator fuel is fairly trivial, only about 180,000 liters of diesel fuel. When we are talking about things as big as a nuclear reactor, that's easy to store. Gas stations carry about 130,000 liters of gas.
You forgot to mention the most serious damage: TH-cam would go off-line.
That is scary…
We will have full scale civil unrest within 6 hours if that ever happens....
NO! NO! Oh God No! Whatever shall we do?
It will indeed be scary for those who are terminally online and base their entire existence on the internet. I fully believe that such people would go catatonic if the internet went offline.
Oh no, imagine the catastrophe if people would start talking to each other again and read books.
Electricity is so important. When I missed electricity for 34 hours 2 months ago, I realized how much my house become useless.
Happened to me for about a day. Was angry about spoiled food.
We have to remember that our lives in first world countries are ones of luxury and comfort, compared to other regions. Only need a power outage to domestically return to the 18th century.
Longest I went was three days, absolutely hell.
@@cincinnati4391where do you live?
imagine the nightmare: city life, high level apartment (20 or more levels) and the city got its power grid fried... total anarchy and the survival of the ones that have guns
@@Kiyoone I hadn't thought that. I was living on the 32nd floor (of about 40/50) while working in Manila for a while, and they conducted a mandatory fire drill, and we were like WTF, but this nice lady (working there) was knocking on doors and shouting down hallways to get us out of the building. But, of course, the elevators were turned off (as is protocol). Going down wasn't a problem, fortunately, they turned them back on to go back up. If they couldn't, due to an EMP, CME, etc., I think you're right that anything above 20, less even.
I once had to walk up 30 floors, and it was a fkn nightmare, and I was young and in above-average fitness back then, had to keep stopping. Imagine firefighters, esp. with all their gear, doing that.
I don’t even know what the video is going to specifically say but I know America doesn’t need any kind of foreign interference for our electrical grid to break…
*stares at Texas and California*
yeah also screw the sun, we should nuke it
At least Texas only breaks their own grid
@@KaitouKaiju lmao at least we have our own😂😂😂
*laughs in monopoly*
Texas is finally as long as it doesn't get record braking amount of snow and ice.
“Emp attacks could yield two results… a bad one or a very bad one.”
Thanks for my daily dose of anxiety 😂❤
🤣 I was thinking the same. Best to heed his final words "You may run the the grocery store... now" 🤣😔
@@neanda Or, have the grocery store run to you. 😎
Substituting the word, anxiety for the word reality is a great way to increase your own anxiety.
Emp's don't exist.
Your name says you have a nac for anxiety?
‘One Second After’ is an excellent book (fiction) that gives a realistic account of the after effects of an EMP. William R. Forstchen is the author of the series.
Yes, I read it years ago, it introduced to this real threat that no one was really talking about at the time. The whole series is fantastic as well
Good book, will definitely get you thinking. Think it should be on everyone's reading list that's interested in the secondary and tertiary effects of a mass long term power outage.
This is a threat I feel like we should definitely be investing more in mitigating. Even if the likelihood of an EMP event is small, the worst-case scenario is devastating enough that's it's almost certainly worth the up-front cost to be prepared for it. (Having a bunch of spare transformers on hand, for example, would be a really big up-front cost, but not a huge ongoing investment.)
Yeah. Of course, it is possible that some of the trillions of defense spending is going into secret stockpiles of stuff like that. But, we'd never know about it, until after the electromagnetic poop hits the cooling fans on quite a number of the existing transformers.
You don't want enemies to know you have extras, or they'll just make extra EMPs. You want to eliminate them before you start to rebuild.
Collecting the spares takes time though.
Also, some corrupt official are just gonna sell them off at a huge markup, if someone needs them probably.
The other low cost but effective mitigations should be done, fucking companies though don't wanna spend money.
Don’t worry, this dude’s taking information from people that haven’t worked in this field.
The electric and oil companies are in cahoots to keep costs low short term to get as much money out of us before a massive failure! Then they will let the government fix it and not spend a dime out of pocket! 🤬 We are doomed to go back to the dark ages!
One interesting thing about EMPs is that the equipment doesn't have to be online to be damaged. For example a transformer can experience damage from arcing in the coils even if it's not connected to anything. So spares need to be kept in a protected environment (ie. "hardened").
I lived in the area when the Metcalf attack happened.
The thing I find most concerning is that nobody has ever discovered who did it, and nobody seems all that worried about figuring out who did it. Makes you wonder if it's classified.
According to news reports, military experts felt this assault looked like a "professional job", noting that no fingerprints were discovered on the empty casings!
@@ecoideazventures6417 Yes, we watched the video as well... But there are many other ways of identifying a perpetrator than just using fingerprints. And, even if the case went cold, meaning they ran out of leads that could help identify the perpetrators, it's still such a high level attack, due to it's consequences potentially affecting _millions_ of people, that it should have been discussed much more than it was. It had no clear potential gain for the shooters, was committed unprovoked, and was directed at public infrastructure, so a target so essential for so many that even the offenders would have experienced negative consequences from the attack.
@@moogle68 That it was so potentially catastrophic yet turned out to be not that big of a deal could have been planned. It may not have been a hostile foreign power doing a practice run but rather the US doing a practice run for techniques to be used elsewhere. That would certainly explain the lack of public explanations - they already know exactly who did it and why. It wouldn't be the first time the US government has experimented on its own people.
It could have been an attack by one of our own organizations, with the object of alerting the government and power companies to the danger. Sadly, only violence seems to wake people up.
Yes it could have been a test exercise to see how people would react or different things like that.
There was articles published here in Britain several years ago on this topic and the question was asked, what young people do if the grid went down. The anser from the public, was to go to the hospital's and charge their mobile phones.
Life will never be the same without a smartphone!.
Or brains
Something you ever so briefly touched upon is the fires resulting from an EMP. During the Carrington EMP Event of 1851, many telegraph coils ignited. Now picture how many transformer and motor coils you have throughout your house; I doubt you have enough extinguishers to handle them all. Basically every city under an EMP would become like Dresden or Peshtigo - immense firestorms.
The plant shown at the 3:50 mark is in the town next door. It’s not a nuclear plant, nor is it active anymore. It’s the “Bruce Mansfield” coal plant in Shippingport Pennsylvania along the Ohio river just northwest of Pittsburgh. The funny thing is, if the camera would of panes to the right, you would see the “Beaver valley power plant” that is a nuclear plant, and one of the 1st “commercial nuclear power plant”. It even has its own three-part documentary by the department of energy from back when it first started that is able to be found on TH-cam. I drive past it everyday, caught me off guard when I saw it in the video 🤣
Please, I am not picking your video apart, I was just surprised. I love your clips. Keep up the awesome work
Most people just assume a nuclear power plant looks like it does on the Simpsons. So whenever they see the iconic cooling towers there first thought is nuclear
Thats funny...I'm also in the pgh region.....and coal plant shutdowns......now the issue will be the ash piles from the coal
Uh uh uh
You said beaver
Being prepared for a minimum of 3 weeks with food and water should be mandatory in all US households. Imagine not needing to rely on others for you necessities. I keep a supply of 3 months food and water on hand at all times, just in case. I grew up in an age where power outages could last up to a week or longer, my family got real used to waiting for the power to come back but we had everything we needed in the meantime.
Unfortunately not many people think that way anymore. My family always had big gardens and canned it for winter each year. For only having electricity for roughly a hundred years, our society sure relies on it heavily.
Trust me, three weeks is nothing when the grid is down and the shelves are empty.
Survivalists say try to have a stach to survive 3 years. If not than for 2 years. But try to have for at least 1 year. For the absolute minimum have a stach for 6 month.
not everyone can afford that or have space 💀
@@Uchiha.Itachii Just store and get what you can, you can store a fair amount of food in a surprisingly small area. I live in a literal trailer, 35 foot with very minimal storage space. My kitchen cabinets are very well stocked with what essentially amounts to very inexpensive food that can be stored for years. I use oxygen absorbers and a vacuum sealer to store dry goods. I pick up some basic things like rice, beans or pasta every time I go shopping, maybe $5 extra goes to long term storage. Took a while but I managed to build up weeks worth of food. I also make sure to rotate out the old stock so it doesn't expire.
I mean, shit loads of people in the usa live paycheck to paycheck, in small apartments. They have neither the money nor the space to store anything really. Plus, there are hundreds of thousands of homeless people, where would they store anything at all? I think being prepared is good, just for many people it is completely unrealistic
Considering I live on a farm, with some livestock and corn, wheat, and beans I'd say I'd be better off than most without power
Until they come for your food en mass and/or with deadly force. Both hungry people and governments have a profound disregard for human property and life if forced by the circumstances.
I much prefer the anonymity I get in the far suburbs. Whereas people will flee my neighborhood and head to yours for food, I have very discreet preparations that make my setup sustainable without the electric grid. Whole home solar with battery backup that is impossible to see from the street. A host of fruit trees and a large garden also hidden from street view coupled with water collection and retention methods. Ill take the burbs becuase they will become empty fast as people raid your farm for food.
@@JBS2018 you do know that an emp will fry your solar panels right unless they're in a faraday cage
@Aftab Shaikh Yes. I do. An EMP is the least likely occurance though. China wants the US intact for it's planned "second China". The last thing they want to do is obliterate all useful infrastructure. I belive local grid sabotage will occur at enough substations to bring it all down. We don't have the parts to fix it in such an occurance and that leaves everything else in working order for China's planned occupation.
Once martial law is enacted, you'll be wishing you hadn't said that.
Emps, like the Y2K scare, will only be a non-issue if people work to mitigate and prevent their effects.
(Though it would be much more expensive to do so.)
Y2K was solved because of computer engineers. There was a real problem that was fixed. But most people do not realise this and assume Y2K was a hoax
@@fuzzlemacfuzz Agree, I was one of the people scanning for software that required updates.
@@colin1235421 Thank you 👍🙏 it's true that people think it was a hoax because it didn't happen. It didn't happen because of people like your good self. Thank you very much, I remember this clearly, and was reading forums etc. where people, like you, who were furiously working on it.
Unfortunately, as mentioned in the conclusion, hardening the grid is 'unprofitable', and, most importantly, it doesn't have a specific date like Y2K, so the masses don't care, until it happens. They should make a hollywood movie like Don't Look Up, it might get more mass attention to pressure those greedy muvvafks to harden the infra
Exactly. People only care about the financial cost, until enough people die and the survivors raise a complaint about it with their elected officials. If you're a representative and you're not going to get the vote from all the relatives and friends of the people who died, THEN you prepare for this total disaster afterwards. We have to have a total disaster first before we'll prep for the next one, unfortunately. If Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are inconvenienced, then you'll see change.
Nothing major happened on Y2K because of one simple thing, preparation and prevention. The systems that were predicted to go down after 2K, didn't, only because engineers acted on it. Don't think nothing would've happened otherwise.
Those large transformers are so be big for a reason, efficiency. Energy conversion efficiency goes from a minimum of 98% to a maximum of 100% for that 10 to 100 MW transformers. A 0.1% difference in efficiency translates in 100 KW heat dissipation!
In case of emergency is possible to connect in parallel a number of 400 KW transformers which can be built within days...
They can be built within days now. Not when the factory is in the dark and the workers are starving and trucks aren't running. But as far as I know, we aren't building them now.
@@Leo9ineyes, because backup generators, solar panels, batteries, etc just simply no longer exist.
Power companies/the government would totally just shrug their shoulders in a situation like this after never accounting for the fact they cant manufacture things without power, because that absolutely sounds realistic at all.
Are you a teen? If you are a grown adult.. Jesus christ dude. You weren't dropped on your head you were thrown like a football into Shaquille O'Neal's fist headfirst
@@Leo9ine relatively light investments into resiliency of those factories would go a long way then, no? like give them generators with 2 weeks of fuel on hand like nuke plants have, or better yet connect them up to an alternate energy source like a solar field
@@iamunamed5800 yes hardened generators and the like
@@Leo9ine LPTs are made to order, dependent on long supply chains for GOES steel and copper (two metals that are already in short supply), and have long lead times owing to the back log of orders and the need to import them from afar. At best it'll take a year or two to get the North American grids back up and running, but by then the damage will have already been done.
Don't let this distract you from the the fact that in 1966, Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers in the 1966 city championship game versus Andrew Johnson High School, including the game-winning touchdown in the final seconds against his old nemesis, "Spare Tire" Dixon
His greatest achievement however was......Kelly
Well played sir, well played.👏
A 50 Cent, mylar balloon, could take out our power grid. 😂
Where are you shopping? Mylar balloons cost a lot more than that!
Valuable content, excellent explanation, as always! Love this channel!
I love these videos, I’ve watched every single one at least twice. Keep it up!!! BTW, you should do a vid on the Antonov An-225, would be interesting
Sensational headlines intended to influence soft minds. EMP impacts declines as the Inverse square of distance to the source
Correct.
If the EMP doesn't actually fry small electronics, then we really aren't sent straight back to the 1880's. A lot of important systems on the grid have backup generators, so things like cell phones might even work for a limited amount of time. And that limited amount of time would be likely enough for the utilities to mobilize to restore at least pockets of electricity that could then be expanded and relatively promptly bring people back out of the dark. And with regard to other countries attempting this with high altitude nukes, you can bet your last dollar that the nuclear missile subs, which would be quite well insulated from this, would get their orders to wipe out whoever decided to open that can of worms.
Aren’t back up generators susceptible to emps also?
Nuclear EMPs are pretty unlikely in real life. I think a large scale cyberattack on our grid is far more likely to come from one of the US's many foreign adversaries. At the very least China and Russia have those capabilities.
EMPs do fry small devices, so if you hear about a CME or somehow get a warning before an EMP attack, make sure you wrap a big ol box with aluminum foil and put your electronics in there
@@GamerGod-fp1tjnuclear EMP and CMEs affect only large structures and some devices plugged into mains, not small portable devices or cars. Cars are shielded by default as they have a metal shell. The electrical grid fries because the kilometer long wires act as antennas so they will output high voltages to trasformers.
@@GamerGod-fp1tjProbably better to wrap my entire garage in foil then 😂
Excellent report...as usual.
Excellent video
Ty
Definitely one of your most uplifting videos, thank you
Right? Like I didn't have enough to worry about?
Well researched and presented. Thank you for providing this knowledge and perspective.
Since the early 2000's utilities have been upgrading against CME events. Sabatoge and EMP's are harder to protect against.
I seriously don't understand all these negative comments.
Just think about it: You no longer have to worry about your browsing history when a nuclear missile explodes over you (ok this could be a bit unpleasant) because all your devices get "shut down" immediately.
It is so good to learn new things like this every day, makes me feel better.
Actually people are more worried about our browsing history when we ourselves could be history!
@@ecoideazventures6417 or actually the end of it, even cooler!
Or hotter, as you melt at sun like temperature :)@@ayooo454
That's because you don't understand the serious unlikeliness of such a thing.
I used to like this channel, but I just happen to understand what happens during an EMP and several issues in this presentation have it sideways. A briefcase size device and "several square miles" just for a starting point.
Good luck with that. Be lucky to get a room... not even a city block, nevermind "several square miles". There simply isn't enough room to store the energy required (unless it's a nuke in and of itself, in which case forget the pulse.
@@MadScientist267I repair resilient electronic systems and devices for the military, I have been doing so for almost 35 years. With the current world situation and especially the kind of people running the governments, I disagree with that comment and would not bank on it not happening.
Small correction, the Carrington Event was actually so small that it doesn't even show up in solar storm tree ring data. I can't remember the video but Fraser Cain was talking to a NASA researcher about this not that long ago.
The Carrington event was a G5, strongest solar storm on the scale. As for tree rings, if there have been no CME that has shown up in tree rings for 200 years at least, it is hard to say what caused these events and there is scant evidence to be had, let's face it, there are just not that many trees that are 5 or 6 hundred, let alone thousands of years old.
@@markpoidvin5382 There are intact protected old growth forest all over the world, with species that have lifespans from hundreds to thousands of years. It's certainly sad that they represent less than 1% of what used to be, but that's still millions of trees.
Why should a CME produce different tree rings?
@@fliegendeuntertasse9472 An increased amount of carbon 14. Go read the article about solar storms and tree rings on universe today, it's a lot easier to read than the original research paper.
@@NotSure177 ahhh i see
Thank you!
The nuke plant portion is poorly researched
The misinformation about Nuclear power plants is quite frustrating.
Nuclear reactors don't just blow up if the power goes down. However, a good question is whether all the support equipment needed for cooling and proper shut down is hardened against EMP. The real nuclear problem could be that even with backup generators the EMP might take down the control systems. That could be ugly.
This is why the grid should be reinforced
How?
Or buried, like power lines are in the suburbs. Why don't we do that everywhere?
@@williamyoung9401 expensive as fuck and inefficent as hell.
@@na9565 build a faraday cage around them
Bro, why are your videos sooo good?! You seriously put out some amazing content that never clickbaits us!! ty.
Thank You--This is an excellent comprehensive review of the Solar and EMP threat. Those in the nuclear industry or EPRI don't necessarily know everything about the EMP threat because tests from the 1950s and 60s are still classified. Many on the EMP Task Force for National and Homeland Security do have security clearances and are aware of some of the classified DoD data that we can't share. I was a USAF war planner, this info is spot on and very similar to what I brief Legislators. No endorsement by the USG or DoD implied.
You can shield equipment from most EMP. The vast majority of military electronics are heavily shielded. The EMP induces current in most conductors it hits. However, it does not pass through conductive materials very well either. A single continuous box of iron will simple conduct the EMP around the box. There will be a secondary magnetic field in the box and it will collapse and generate a current/voltage spike. But this is easy to spark gap away.
Consumer grade equipment and most industrial equipment will suffer badly.
Most of this video is pretty correct but saying that nuclear reactors would meltdown without power from the grid is incorrect and comes off extremely alarmist.
that's what we found from research, and even looking further into it we couldn't find a definite answer. At the very least it appears that spent nuclear fuel pools require electricity to run pumps/valves for at least 5 to 7 years. Passive convective cooling appears to only a future on newer designs. Again not an nuclear scientist, so still looking for further information which is properly referenced.
@@NotWhatYouThinkappreciate the research and provided references. usually this channel has always been pretty spot on and never alarmist but this one just sorta felt off to me. I will take a deeper dive into the provided references and reevaluate my own personal standpoint!
How on Earth can a Nuclear Power Station have a melt down without power from the grid ! What do you think produces power for the grid - hamsters on a wheel ! ?
@@jamesbarbour8400 It may surprise you to know this, but power plants need power to run. Watch some videos on what a 'black start' is.
@@nukepuke932 wait.....don't tell me they burn black people to start the Power Station up......🤣
Fukushima was a combination of a (too) low sea-barrier (not stopping the tsunami) and emergency-generators BELOW ground-level - so, they flooded. Let's hope some engineers went back to school, learning about the basic concepts of water and gravity. And oh, a 'once in a million years'-event could happen.... tomorrow.
I work in a nuckear power plant. I forgot the exact numbers, but after this reactor trips, it continues producing 200MW of heat, but it decreases over time quite fast. In case if a catastrophe, you could decide not to keep all the generators running at the same time and also remove unnecessary loads to save power. Also, they can keep running for a lot of time. Depending on the project, you could use one unit to supply power to another one. It can take hours for the used fuel pool to start boiling, which would be very unpleant, but it won't explode. Talking back about the primary system you could consider a loss of coolant accident as some sort of explosion, but it's not like in a nuke and also it's not gonna happen if you have the diesel generators.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Also nuclear reactors can generate their own power.. And if they are no longer connected to the grid, they could operate at very low power.
What a great voice. It’s why I love these videos haha. (I also love them cuz they are well made.)
Great video, thanks.
No EMP needed.
One "nut" with a "cherry picker" truck and 90 C-4 devices disguised as bird nests could plant 3 a day on large transmission lines and bring down the entire power grid from Washington to Texas to Florida and Maine, with one phone call.
Somebody just made it on multiple watch lists. 😂
Hysterical and by that I mean it’s complete hysteria.
Nuclear plants should have redundant power from its own power supply. Yes I know, you would need to keep them running too do so, but if you had two reactors, one would power the other.
Well, isn't that what the backup generators are for? In-case of total grid failure, the nuclear plants would probably be shut down instead of being kept running.
And if they are shut down, they stop generating heat. The backup power is only needed for long enough to cool down the fuel
@@gunpowder7777this is something people seem to keep confusing. You only need a very small supply of fuel to cool down a reactor. You would however need years of backup fuel to cool the rods after use. One thing isnt needed right away, the other is, and woah, who would have thought, we prepared for it and its on hand.
@@cherriberri8373
You wouldn't need years of backup power to cool the fuels, the passive systems are sufficient to cool the reactors after sometime.
That's the answer! Just build MORE nuclear reactors... >_< ☢ (F.Y.I.: Humans are allergic to gamma radiation).
The Suez Canal blockage affected prices heavily enough to affect prices for everyday items. The destruction that an EMP would bring is civilization-ending.
Finally someone explains it so its easily understood.
Thank you.
One correction about the reason for transmission lines being AC. AC is less efficient to transport through powerlines than DC, but DC transformers are very inefficient so it's better to transport the electricity using AC. Long uninterrupted transmission lines, such as under-sea cables, are actually DC. At that point the efficiency of the transport outweighs the inefficiency of the transformers.
I think that a thumbnail with an image related to "power substation High-voltage arc" would be interesting.
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That ending…. 😂🔥
As an electrical engineer, I'd like to point out that my fellow engineers have been hardening the grid against large induced currents from an EMP or geomagnetic storm for years. It's not perfect, but there are protective measures to minimize downtime.
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While I agree with what you say, there is an aspect not covered here and that is the magnetic pole shift. It's been around for thousands of years BUT the magnetic North Pole is rapidly accelerating in its South Westerly direction. To me that means the Southern magnetic pole must be moving North Easterly at the same speed. Given the shape of the magnetic field protecting Earth, doesn't that mean we will be MUCH more vulnerable to solar flairs in the future?
Yeah
When the magnetic field flips will a large electromagnetic wave be released such as what happens during an antenna transmission during AC polarity cycles? When the electromagnetic field is reversed a radio wave is emitted. Unless I am wrong on some basic theory.
@@adcraziness1501 All food for thought mate.
15:54 I live by Calero lake on the other side of that hill..crazy to hear that happened so close to home here in San Jose
There is a koolstory of a Canadian that married a Russian (read: "from USSR") woman and took her to his small town in Canada.
One of her first concerns as a homemaster was stashing up some food supplies.
Why do that, he would ask, there's a general store two blocks away with _everything_ we could need.
-This is the way- Just trust me, she replied.
Okay, he thought, maybe it's just trauma from the economy crisis Russians had after the collapse of Soviet Union. She will overcome that eventually. Meanwhile, making some supplies won't hurt.
So she packed the storage room in the basement with various groceries, from salt to pickles.
"Baby, you don't have to stash that much,' -- 'Trust me.' -- 'It's ok. I love you.'
And then a snowstorm came.
The only road connecting the town to the outer world was blocked by deep snow.
Power and comm lines gave in.
The general store's food reserves were exhausted in two days.
Since then and until the road got unblocked, all the town lived on the Russian wife's reserves.
3:47 Enough for them to safely shut down and reach stable temperature that's what they're here for
Fukushima was caused by an operator shutting off a cooling channel to prevent the reactor cooling off too much and then they lost power with the cooling channel closed. Had the channel been left open it would have been fine. It's not the operators fault he was allowed to override safety mechanisms, it was a design failure to allow such overrides.
You're describing the Three Mile Island accident. Fukushima was caused by a tsunami and involved 4 reactors.
@@rpbajbno safety systems were issue at Fukushima as well
Fukashima diesel generators got flooded by the tsunami. Tepco ignorred WANO advice on relocating backup diesel generators to higher ground or raising generators to well above sea level, as done on similar BWRs in US and Germany. Also the non addition of manual controlled hydrogen venting lines to vent the reactor gases if they overheated and dissociated the coolant into hydrogen and oxygen.
"You may run to the store... now" LOL!
Love the long video, from Ontario
Fukushima only melted down due to the plant shutting down reactors as a precaution. Had they left them running they would not have had this issue at all. This entire issues was due to the sea wall not built to spec, and the blunder of the location of backup generators located in the basement rather than on the roof. Similar plants in the area did not have such issues.
the one guy whos completely off grid: imagine not having solar batteries and starlink
As mentioned in the video, Starlink can be threated by an EMP weapon if it's detonated high enough
"What's one of the worst things that could happen to planet Earth?" "An EMP burst from the sun." "Let's design a weapon like that to add to our nuclear arsenal, why not"
Padre Pio himself said, "It would
be easier for the world to exist
without the sun than without
the Holy Mass,"
Put the US in a faraday cage to prevent attacks
Need all the tin foil
@@tidal06 hunter biden used it all for his crack
3:15 - _"Without the grid, it's just a matter of time before nuclear plants explode"_ = FALSE
Nuclear power plants don't just explode!
3:20 - _"This it what happened to the three nuclear reactors that exploded at Fukushima..."_ = FALSE
The reactors didn't explode! They overheated, which caused some other gas-explosions!
3:30 - _"Electricity is required to circulate water to cool down nuclear reactors, otherwise boom"_ = FALSE
It will overheat, which usually causes the fuel cells to melt through the bottom of the reactor. That's bad, but it won't explode!
Fukushimas rod... So where did it stop exactly? 😏
🤓Actually tho, that is incorrect🤓
@@nomore-constipation Fukushima went until the "melting through bottom" part...
That's why they sporadically tried cooling it using seawater. Which isn't optimal, yet not as bad as proclaimed by the media. The amount of leaked radiation was about negligible, given the large size of our oceans. The Chernobyl disaster released about 10 times more radiation.
The type of leaked radiation does also partake in the severity of a nuclear incident. At Fukushima 95% of the leaked radiation consisted out of Iodine-131, 2.5% out of Caesium-134 and the remaining 2.5% was Caesium-137. The 95% Iodine-131 has a half-life of only 8 days, thus it's about completely gone after a decade. The Caesium-134 has a half-life of about 2 years, thus reduced from 2.5% to 0.08% during the past decade. The Caesium-137 has a really bad half-life of 30 years, thus most of it's 2.5% still persists.
As a rough estimate we can determine that only 2.58% of the leaked radiation at Fukushima is still around, diluted in our large oceans this calculates to about 0.0% globally. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was a lot worse, yet everyone appears to have forgotten that one...
@@L0K0M0T1V This channel just exist to spread fear mongering.
Look at my previous comment above for more information...
@@timmy7201 Where are these stats from?
There is 3 days in the store but it doesn't last 3 days. When south orange county, CA lost power, there was food and water in the stores for just 6 hours. Ralphs, Costco, Walmart were cleaned out before the sun set that night because people stocked up.
Well that’s cheered me right up..😂
Natural disaster preparedness at the societal level has always benefited us. Katrina and other hurricanes have shown what happens when we aren’t prepared. COVID itself was predicted as a likely event, and came from a region of the world that we have expected a pandemic to come from. Lastly, we know about global warming, and the situation is the same. We want to prevent bad things from happening by making wise decisions now.
*MONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEY*
And yet, the companies that need to implement the hardening of this *_critical_* infrastructure, that is _likely_ to be attacked, are *_STILL_* so fucking *greedy* that they seem to be psychotic (detached from reality), because that is the only adequate description for people in their positions that knowingly decide to prioritize personal gain over investing in protecting _essential_ infrastructure, needed by millions in order to survive.
Remember kids, money is the root of all evil.
My grandad worked at Bell labs and helped develop NORAD systems that would work after nuclear war broke out. Pretty wild shit
Why is the gov't not taking this more seriously?
I live with no electricity everyday and have no issues. Also every engine made before 1960 works just fine without electricity except for the distributor for the spark plugs, but an older diesel engine doesn't even need that. Stupidity causes more deaths than anything else
I am terrified by this new potential E-bombs world.
Gaybol
It's nothing new, been around for a long long time.
@@darkstorminc i doubt you'll be among the 1/10 that survive
Where I live, in NYS, for years, usually in the summertime, and usually on Sundays, they constantly (deliberately??) shut the electric off, for 2 hours and 1 minute. It has become such a reliable fact of life, that I have started keeping plastic-encased Blocks of Ice in my freezer. By keeping blocks of ice, in the freezer, when the electric predictably goes off, the ice keeps my "frozens" sufficiently cold, for 2 hours, so I don't have to throw my food out, every weekend.
If your freezee thaws out in 2 hours, you have a shitty freezer. Go get a new one that actually has insulation
It's pretty freakin sad for the "richest nation in the world" not be able to provide stable electricity to its citizens. Two hour rolling blackouts? I am pretty sure all of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers would be collectively shaking their heads. They did not work so hard for us to suck this badly.
@@adcraziness1501 My strong suspicion is that the predictable blackouts are politically-driven, and therefore intentional. Major industries do whatever they can to qualify for earning CARBON CREDITS. The intentional blackouts are likely a way for carbon-footprint Energy Producers to show fealty and deference to the worldwide Globalists and Climate Change mafiosos.
@@adcraziness1501 The predictable blackouts are not due to the USA having an inability to provide stable electricity. Instead, the blackouts are due to powerful (yet crazy) people who have a head full of Bad Wiring, regarding the issue of Climate Change.
@@adcraziness1501 Every time I try to reply to your reply, and set you straight as to the actual cause of the blackouts, TH-cam refuses to let my reply actually post. Sorry. This apology is the only thing that TH-cam will permit to actually post. Censorship, you understand.
Compartmentalization might help. Distributed local generation using the SMR'S that have been promised for so long now. With one of those powering every switchyard, and perhaps an effort at shielding the threat could be reduced to something more manageable. My non-technical two cents worth.
Next Week: Why EMP’s are Completely Useless
Look up EMP Shield. Got one on my car, and looking to get one for my generators
related, but different product: "EMR stickers". They are complete BS that claim to block electromagnetic radiation. They do not.
You should look into the government's "Disaster Preparation Plans & Training"
A relative who actively was testing and learning all this back in the 80's. I'm pretty sure it has been updated even more by now
Outside of their original training, in the early 2000's they had several specific specialties and we're qualified for taking over local government plans depending on where they were stationed (associated with FEMA too I think)
But in the mid 2010's they dropped out of the program and weren't able to have any private sector jobs related to their certification for a specific time period.
Fortunately, Texas is not apart of the US grid.
3 weeks no power in Charleston SC after hurricane Hugo.1989,I remember folks coming together.Spam sandwich from Salvation Army was very good.
Unfortunately, domestic terrorism is the most realistic threat these days.
we already have people in congress that are actively and openly sabotaging the basic processes that keep the country alive. (this is intentionally vague because you can imagine different members based on your ideology lol)
False. The Leninists have succeded in aiding your lack of ability to think for yourself. The real threat is from Chinese and Russia Communist saboteurs. Thr grid will be preserved because China plans to take physical possession of the lower 48. Enemy agents will destroy substations and electrical manufacturing capacity. Those you accuse of "domestic terrorism" are the distraction, not the threat.
I thought we called that "political campaigns" these days
Obamaaaa, pelosi, BLM antifa and democrats funding chaos is a fact
Google-
The (nuclear) Flowers report
plot twist the grid gets emp'd and its just that scene from avengers "now at 500% power"
Appreciated and shared.
Our electrical grid is so fragile it's terrifying. I learn this after working in the industry now.
what are the ways to stop an EMP? would that be some type of insulation or certain points where surges are safely stopped.
Faraday cages (metal boxes) stop EMPs and a lot of infrastructure is shielded this way, especially military infrastructure.
Stick your phone in the microwave if you know a blast is incoming. I'm serious. Don't turn the microwave on, though
For example in your computer some cables have a copper net to shield them from induction, what an EMP is all about.
So there is an easy way to protect from an EMP
@@mcyounglordlauch7012 It's easy on a 6' computer cable. It's not easy on 700,000 miles of transmission lines in the U.S. alone.
@@dan8250 i know, but my point was that the technology to secure stuff from EMPs is known to mankind
Sends America back in time? Like have you seen the state of their politics lately?
They want to go back to the ''good ol days''
Rome 2.0
Your opinion doesnt matter
You wanna go back to 18th century living? No electronics?
Make America great again 😂
I feel like if the Russian Federation was able to use a non-nuclear EMP bomb to knock out power grids they would have done so in Ukraine already. They have no problem continously targeting civilian infrastructure and have been conventionally bombing the power grid, as is mentioned in the video. The argument that maybe it would be seen as an unnecessary escalation is moot since an EMP would just harm infrastructure whereas high explosives kill people in addition to blowing things up. I'm very skeptical of purported high tech Russian capabilities after their failure to materialize after over a year and at least tens of thousands of casualties, especially when they're using dumb munitions and conventional arms to attempt to accomplish the very tasks these things are supposed to handle.
You'll find me barricaded with a diesel generator, playing chess with a bust of Caesar 👍
Everyone in America are worrying, but the vulnerability is pretty much global
no…we not lol
Well, should be worrying, but too busy with everything else.
But, You're right. It is a global problem. Some countries with the least technology would feel a huge impact, when their foreign aid was suddenly cut off, as first world countries either hoarded supplies for their own people, or simply lacked the ability to ship food, medicine, and fuel overseas.
Before long, though, people in the less developed countries might be better off, as people in first world countries began to starve, en masse.
The difference is that the United States will not attack the grid of Russia or China in the way they plan to attack ours. The vulnerability is primarily in the lower 48 of the US and parts of Canada.
So?? It doesn't matter if it's global or not; the personal affect is the same.
Imagine if we used all that engineering and energy to help each others, and evolve as ONE species, all together. We would be incredibly strong and living well.
eventually we will
But that’s boring
@@legendgodmyth Not really. There's so much more to do than fight and compete with other humans.
It's really the minority of humanity that splits the majority
Keep dreaming.
People make me sick. Instead of taking care of what needs to be done, y'all more worried about being able to buy stuff you don't need. Like the ant & the grasshopper: one worked all summer to put away food, and one played. Guess who survived? My grandparents taught me how to fix things, to keep them in good working order, grow food, churn butter, and turn off the lights. I'll be fine thanks~
The reason we don't use EMP as a tactical weapon is due to its inconsistency. Most countries military is hardened against EMP attack. As far as the civilian infrastructure goes you can't tell what will work and what won't some cars exposed to emp will continue to work while some will not work. EMP is a great terror device and the fact that if your car don't work when you go outside it would suck, or if the power on your block was down. As a tactical device to stop an entire civilization from going to war with you it's a very inconsistent weapon that will likely just anger your enemy, and not render them ineffective.
About the TaskForce conclusion:
Yes, its somewhat easy to harden the grid. Many other first world nations allready have done this and further keep on hardening. The US indeed is an outlayer and stay with quite a vulnerable, possibly the most vulnerable system to this kind of effects (for whatever reason - i suggest simple greed and casual ignorance).
Also i think its a glorious last revenge of Nicola Tesla out of his grave to have a DC grid being way more vulnerable to EMP's, while AC actually hamper the effects.
But let me adress the whole debate about China/Russia/US. It's - in expert terms - bullshit.
An EMP radiates spherical, and you have no chance of not hit one or multible satellites that are important for seemless communication. So now that's saied, let go to trade. What is trade. Stock and the financial markets atm. are 80 microtransactions, which are automised communications of software trading with software so fast, noone can even hope to keep up understanding the metrics (so much we had interfering 'waves' in the pattern, creating stock market crashes out of nowwhere. Its a fun topic). So you don't have to imagen what damage the halfe way hardent servers could suffer - as the smallest delay can imballance and collapse the whole thing. So this tool is viable only in the situation of you have not a single buck at your bank account, and no obligations or shares.
Further, such a crash would affect global markets and trade organisation, so your food supplys would run dry and your actual problem is starvation. The funny part of this is, no matter where you drop your EMP, or where sun hits us with a powerfull enough solar storm, this global infrastructure would collapse. There is no way a China or Russia could target 'only', or even primarily the USA (despite its a great mindgame for people stuck in the cold war). In opposite to the US, these two nations have (to my supprise) shown that they do know this. But its irrelevant, as if they would forget of for whatever reason do it anyway - the'd not even manage to deliver one tank or soldier to the US before ther nation crumbles as much as the US ... and its boring to invade a advesary that allready fall appart in civil war, caused by the same trouble you have at home.
So while a solar incident might be only a matter of time, a nation triggering it is a bit unlikely - and obsolete in the end.
If a sufficent event hit earth, you also might not even care for exploding TV's and refrigerators, as these also can trigger super vulcanos, and the US has one directly in ther backyard. These magma-buddys have way more expirience in global extinction than any foodchain or national conflict. But in the end the're a bit less funny to fantasise how Russia or China could trigger it, i guess =P
If you havent already been aware or prepared for this...
Nice knowing you.
EMP: Welcome Back to the Stone Age.
Once the GPS satellites are offline, there will be no more free atomic clock signal available everywhere to keep the frequency and phase in sync for the several AC generators that compose a typical power grid (this applies not only to USA but pretty much to most big countries). This means that all connections between these electricity sources must be severed as soon is confirmed that a SME heading the planet, otherwise tehy will destroy each other. And after the EMP, it will take time to replace the satellites and/or the atomic clock signal used to keep all this equipment in sync and only then reconnect everything back to the grid. Curious Droid has a very detailed and interesting video about this topic and also about the Carrington event itself.
The grids stayed in sync for many decades before GPS or even atomic clocks were available. They are designed to isolate sections when the sync with neighboring areas is lost. There is additional damage that can occur when large imbalances occur between source and load areas, to be sure. This happened after the Northridge, CA earthquake damaged transmission infrastructure. But there are some fallback safety systems not dependent on GPS. I will check out C.D.'s video, thanks!
Several massive mistakes. First, you VERY flippantly dismissed the Canadian integrated grids. This is a catastrophically big detail in discussing strategy and impact.
The second and nearly equal issue is that you, like so many people, don't get it that a nuke plant won't just go blow up cause no grid power. Fukushima didn't happen because the generators failed. It happened because they failed far too soon. A nuke plant is designed to fully shut down AND have enough fuel on site to cool the whole thing to the point where it is effectively inert.
Please do your research on things before you just babble. I know these things but others don't. Equally, there are other things that I don't know that you may "tell" me in other videos and I don't want to be deceived. So the more BS I sniff on your channel, the sooner I hit the unsub.
Do not become the infographics channel.
Thanks for your comment. We somethings get some things wrong, but our intention is to convey accurate information.
Well, the big question is how many of the nuclear powerplant electronics themself will be fried by an EMP attack. If you fry them just right the power generators will never even be able to start
how will it shut itself down without backup generators, or electronics? remember, those things are fried in this situation.
A 90% attrition rate sounds alarmist.
RIP Dr. Pry. Thank you for your service 🇺🇸❤️
Honestly, I’d love to have 3-6 months of non-perishable food and goods at any given moment, however, our economy won’t allow. Moreover, I’ve learned how to make less last for longer than you’d expect. I probably have about a month worth of food though it tastes absolutely terrible, and would have added hydration repercussions. That said, I’d be more worried about water, if I were going to mention food, as while food is an issue, it’s a secondary issue. Water is a much bigger issue with higher priority as the body requires water to stay hydrated, especially eating salty non-perishables. Try eating an MRE without water if you don’t believe this is an issue. Any MRE except spinach fettuccine as, that one has trace amounts more water than the others, you likely won’t feel the effects of dehydration as quickly with that MRE. As a signalier, I guarantee you, our nets would go down for a short while, however we signal corps soldiers are far more resourceful and inventive than you may know. I have a feeling we would all get together within our respective regions and create local think-tanks of sorts on bringing our areas up on the net, then communicating with other regions and showing them how to do the same. I’d expect these projects to be fully underway very soon after either disaster happens, as an emergency response.