Posted by GenKreton
on September 12, 2009, 7:34 pm, in reply to "EMP attack on USA"
Military equipment is often shielded against electrical interference (such as all radar installations), even nuclear based EMPs are very localized, and the entire grid is connected so power plants share load and, indeed, sell electricity to each other based on the type of plant, time of day, demand, and fuel prices. To deny DC power you need to dedicated a nuke for every power plant east of the rockies in the US and Canada because load balancing controls can be set to move power still being made in OH straight to NYC if they wanted to. I don't really see the danger here.
We could consider a few EMP's like the Cash-for-Clunkers program - getting some civilians out there to buy new machines to off-shore our currency to Israel and China where the chips are fab'ed and assembled and pay some minimum wage Best Buy employee.
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