re: EMP

["Mark Healey" <marksvw@healeyonline.com>]

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:16:13 -0700 (PDT), Fiesta Cranberry wrote:

>>If an EMP goes off above us, and we
>>actually have the chance to be concerned
>>about our old cars, then we have a
>>serious problem with priority assignment
>
>Ahhh, but you're wrong!  In the book, they hit the whole country with
>massive EMP's, and then blow up certain select targets (cities, missile
>silos) with regular atom bombs.  Some parts of the country are
>relatively unaffected at first, but then get hit with fallout.  So some
>people had time to run, IF their cars were working :^)
>
>The book says that the EMP permanently fries electronic circuits,
>computer chips, etc.
>
>Apocalyptic fiction is my favorite genre :^)

Confession here.  I started thinking about the same thing after
watching a Road Warrior rerun on TV (Why did they dub out the
Australian accents!? morons).

Contemporary cars don't have a chance.  IC's can't handle that much
current.  Discrete transistors are a lot biger so they can handle a
lot more.  I don't know how much more.  You'd have to know how much
current is induced by an EMP which I don't.


Mark Healey
71 FI auto square
71 FI manual square
marksvw@healeyonline.com


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