Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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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?
My thoughts exactly.
I thought they tended to fry all conductive electronics that aren't specifically shielded against them, whether they were currently in operation or not?
Wikipedia to the rescue:
Typically in motion picture or electronic entertainment, the effects of an EMP are incorrectly shown as temporary. Another recurring misconception is the idea that EMP only affects active electronics
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.
It's the "and it will never come back on" that's the sticking point. I can buy some kind of worldwide blackout where everything stops working. A flobitinum goes off and all the electric things go boom, fine.
I cannot buy a scenario where this couldn't fix the problem at least temporarily.
Maybe no metals are conductive any more?
Magnets are broken?
Hey--they started it. I'm just looking for an explanation.
What happens in this universe if you rub a balloon on a wool sweater?