Is there anything, any type of material, that can shield electronics from an EMP blast? I’m serious here, not asking a stupid question, Ihope.
Not a stupid question. Look up Faraday shield on your favorite search engine.
/johnny
Do a web search....you can protect things (smaller type things, like computers, radios, etc more easily)...I think it requires some copper wire, and a metal container, etc.
Is there anything, any type of material, that can shield electronics from an EMP blast?Yup. It's called a "Faraday Cage". Basically, you have to completely surround it with a conductor and ground the conductor. There are some subtleties, but if you get a metal container which you can close tightly (no gaps), and solidly attach a heavy wire from the container to a good ground (water pipe? copper grounding rod?), that should work just fine.
The only problem is that anything you want to protect must be in the container when the bomb goes off. The assumption is that we'll have no warning, so plan on buying spares of everything you need to protect and putting them away until after you are sure that the danger has passed.
“Is there anything, any type of material, that can shield electronics from an EMP blast?”
Any Faraday cage like a tight enclosure, with the proper filters on wires that penetrate the enclosures.
The military spends big bucks on studying this, they have sine Starfish knocked out streetlights in a three block area of Hawaii (Starfish Prime).