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There are a number of scenarios that could take away a big percentage of utility generation or make a lot of equipment unusable. Once again, though, ALL electricity would require a big rewrite of physics.
reservoirs would flood,
More things than you'd think have manual backups. A paranoid engineer is a good engineer. I've always thought you could have some great drama around finding people who know how to get around a lack of power. (I know. Shut up and write.)
Me, I'm just wondering how long it would take a number of my relatives to die w/o electricity and the medical devices that need power.
As an aside, this is one of the reasons I oppose electricity deregulation.
the pilot was written by JJ and Kripke. the trailer intrigued me and i like those kind of shows. so i'm in. at least for a few eps.
Why couldn't they have written something where EMPs have gone off and fucked up technology for a bit?
Now, I've seen stories where EMPs just blacks out all electronics currently running, but everything is okay in the time it takes to reboot. And others where the EMP fries whatever is running sufficiently to damage it, and it can't just start back up. And whatever was off at the time is still fine.
How do EMPs actually work in real life?
I thought they tended to fry all conductive electronics that aren't specifically shielded against them, whether they were currently in operation or not?
How do EMPs actually work in real life?
What Matt said. I think they really fry the electronics, or so I recall from the research I did a while back. The military has specially-hardened sites & resources to protect their stuff in case of an EMP.
It's really hard to predict. A single continent-wide pulse is improbable, because the strength of the pulse is affected by distance. The scenarios in which bad guys set off multiple devices in different cities are more probable. Unless we're talking about some kind of alien technology, there would be equipment that survived. A number of power plants still have largely analog controls, but a lot of substations would probably be fried.
