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aristocles

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6. If there is an EMP event...

Reply to bemildred (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 12:14 PM

Mar 2014

...all distributed systems will be fried and useless. All electrical devices will be destroyed. All it takes is a 1 kiloton device detonated about 100 miles above Kansas City. An Iranian trawler, sitting tens of miles off the Eastern coast can deliver the nuke in a matter of minutes.

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U.S. Risks National Blackout From Small-Scale Attack [View all] Lodestar Mar 2014 OP

This may be the greatest and most serious external threat to the very existence of the US aristocles Mar 2014 #1

Lose cable tv? Tens of millions would go quite mad... n/t jtuck004 Mar 2014 #8

This is another reason distributed power is the way of the future. WhiteTara Mar 2014 #2

Year after year... Earth_First Mar 2014 #3

Yes, and that is why our centralized power system is a bad idea. bemildred Mar 2014 #4

If there is an EMP event... aristocles Mar 2014 #6

And that is true whatever your architecture, so you might at least make it difficult for terrorists. bemildred Mar 2014 #7

Funny, I was just watching an NCIS episode on this very theme... malthaussen Mar 2014 #5