1 year EMP

[NorthernRaider]

(10 January 2012, 23:21)Scythe13 Wrote: This is a simple scenario.

There is a huge solar flare and it wipes out all electricity.

The government can't get any systems up and running simply because they cannot communicate and the people that could fix the systems are too busy looking after their families.

The electricity doesn't go back on. As far as you know, there is no more electricity. Solar panels don't work. Car batteries don't work. Torches don't always work, but some do.

How do you see the first year playing out?

Solar flares dont kill electricity they kill electromagnetic fields and completed circuits, so if you have disassembled componants for say an alternator, a PV panel kept in a DIY Faraday cage, a Lead Acid deep cycle battery that has not had its acid added, kick or hand cranked or compressed air started diesel engines like Listers you can be up and running in hours. Mainstream society will be buggered for approx 15 years without refrigerators, washing machines, tvs, elivators, street lights, railways etc, and of course it will take at least three years to get water , gas and sewage pumping again. I reckon a smart prepper with a few PV panels, Micro wind turbine, perhaps a static single cyl diesel could be up and self suficient quickly and helping out their community. City dwellers will be really in the shit.