Make a Faraday Cage Wallet
4th February 2010
You never know when an Iranian EMP attack will make all of your credit cards just so much plastic.
4th February 2010
You never know when an Iranian EMP attack will make all of your credit cards just so much plastic.
February 5th, 2010 at 12:38
As laudable a project as it is, I think that the consequences of an EMP attack would dwarf credit card usage in significance.
What I would love to see is a design for EMP shielding for portable solar generators. Apparently the manufacturers of such generators–at least the ones I’ve contacted, are totally in the dark regarding the importance of such shielding if their products can truly be considered emergency backup devices.
The addendum to the instructions for EMP shielding for wallets in which the use of five-ply metallized mylar was recommended over the use of aluminum foil was a boon. Wikipedia, using the name metallized boPET says that “Five layers of metallized boPET film in NASA’s spacesuits make them radiation resistant.”
Now, who’s the clever problem-solver who can come up with a proper shielding for both the solar panel, which one engineer described to me as a single giant solid state device, as well as any of the other components, such as the inverter, that might require shielding.
The most receent Congressional Commission on EMP attacks indicated that a thermonuclear device detonated over the central U.S. would result in the deaths of ninety percent of the U.S. population within a year.
Of course, if we were so fortunate as to experience the results of EMP from a relatively crude and small fission device atop a medium range missile from an old freighter or barge towed to the west coast by the Koreans (they have the third largest submarine fleet in the world, BTW), or one from Iran off the east coast, each of them would merely knock out all communications, power and water in those most populated areas. http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandSecurity/upload/bg_2199.pdf