Recent content by posh-goofiness

I'm going to guess you read neither the white paper I posted on the topic or the congressional hearing Pancake posted. Alrighty, then.

@Bassoe Paywalled. But yeah, I know where he's going. It's why I'm learing to garden with hand tools only. Learning to carpentry with hand tools only. Clearing brush is the most strenuous thing I've ever done. Again, with hand tools. I just about died clearing a 15x45 foot patch of blackberry...

The article about the faraday cage itself? The thing about the cage is that it's gotta form a surface on each side and the top. The ground is the bottom side. As long as it's not got an open side it's still going to work. If the cage door was open in that picture it would be a different ssort of...

A few months of no power means not pumping gas. or water or sewage or any number of knock on effects. A few months would be catastrophic. Houses are mostly stick construction. You aren't riding out an EMP in one without damage. With you, I'm discussing a HEMP since we're talking about about...

What cases have you used lately? They're plastic, or only partly metal with a plexi or tempered glass insert, or pure tempered glass. Literally walk into a best buy or something. Mass produced stuff from aio vendors are also plastic on the outside mounted to a metal frame or the high end cases...

Yes, and they're completely enclosed. Have you actually taken apart a computer case before? It's a metal frame with 2 or 3 open sides.

Am I missing something? Yeah, it's a shit material for a cage. An EMP will fry the internals just like everything else.

That seems contradictory. In an environment where we have even less access to things, more stress, different priorities, etc. It would be harder, not easier, to get spun up.

@Zachowon Okay. I don't actually agree with him on that. Neither does the government or any organization looking at the issue. Since it's pretty universal that they agree an EMP strike will take down the grid at least temporarily. Where people diverge on this is what that's going to cause. If...

@LordsFire I suppose that's true. I am assuming worst case. Kinda have to given I'd rather be over-prepared than under prepared.

Okay, and the other issues I mentioned?

As far as I know, power plants and such are suburban and urban structures. So pretty deep into ground zero or the exclusion zone of chaos around ground zero. For this scenario, I'm assuming that our missile defense was insufficient, but yes. In reality, we might actually have a few big cities...

Fair enough. Though I think you are overestimating things. The cultural and technological place we were at in 19th century isn't anything like what a post-exchange world would look like. Recovery of civilization isn't what expansion of civilization looked like back then. Homesteaders on the...

@Happy Pancake For a test case on UBI, you can ask @Skallagrim who actually participated in (running it?) one. It... wasn't a a good outcome, if i remember correctly.

Eh, that's fair. So let's assume we're 10 years post-exchange. I still think you're wrong. That's just it. It isn't as simple as you're making out. Not even close to simple. Power generation and management are hard as shit we just don't think about it because we aren't responsible for managing...