What a steaming pantload.
OK, here’s the dope on EMP and our electrical grid: There’s no way to make everything “robust” in the face of EMP. The best that we could do is develop redundancy and backup in depth.
The clowns in Congress don’t know jack about electronics. Most of the think tank morons advocating for this stuff (like Newt Gingrich) don’t know jack about this stuff.
Those of us who do have a clue about energy, electrical generation, transmission, “alternative energy” and thermodynamics are growing increasingly weary of the BS from people who don’t.
My current rant on all of this stuff goes like this:
“If you didn’t study engineering, then put on a dunce hat, go sit in the corner and STFU. You decided long ago that you wanted to get drunk, stoned and laid every night in college, so you studied something easy. This means that you have nothing to contribute on this subject today. Enjoy the technology and ease of modern life that has been brought to you by the efforts of other people who have been willing to study harder, learn more and work harder than you. If you can’t get out of the way of people who actually do know what they’re talking about, our advice for all of you liberal arts majors to catch up to the engineers is to start back at the beginning: learn how to bang rocks together. You’ll eventually get the hang of it.”
NV Dave, Henry (Hank) Cooper, who I named in the article, has a BA and a Master’s in Science and has taught engineering at Clemson. He was GHW Bush’s SDI advisor and Reagan’s SDI Director, and served as his Asst Director of the Arms and Disarmament Agency. He is a former scientific advisor to the Air Force Weapons Laboratory. What is Cooper missing?