Why an EMP Attack is Worse than You Think

Without electricity, life as we know it will end. But what could possibly interrupt the electricity in modern societies? If it's not an EMP attack, it will be the sun. Getting hit with by the Sun's massive solar flares that would literally burn the electrical transformers of the power grid and other electronics, is just a matter of time. According to NASA, there is a 12% chance that it will happen in this decade, and the decade after, and the one after that ... until it eventually does. But how you would be able to continue watching our channel with no electricity at thome, is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs

00:00 What Would Happen if American Grid Fails?
3:57 How EMP Works
5:19 Non-Nuclear EMP, Balloons & Delivery Systems
6:52 How damaging the EMP Actually is?
9:14 Why Large Transformers are the Achilles Heel of the American Electricity Grid
13:21 How Sun could produce EMP and Blackout the Earth
15:37 Why Grid Sabotage is a Real Frequently Occurring Threat
16:49 How Likely is the EMP Attack & the Great Illusion
18:31 Before You Run to the Grocery Store

Music:
Informal Parameters - Charles Holme
Serious Development - Blackout Memories
Upon Entering Another Realm - Brendon Moeller
Head Games - Max Anson
The Mole - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Cloak - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Checked In - Jay Varton
Danger Sun - Max Anson
Covert Affairs - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Thyone - Ben Elson
Bittersweet Lament - Max Anson
Inbound - Brendon Moeller

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[Manish_Kumar_Singh]

I am in the nuclear industry as an scientific officer/ engineer.

Nuclear power plant needs 7 days of continuous cooling after shutdown, and post that the passive cooling (natural convection) will take care.
This is a basic design principal !

Solar flair won't blast off nuclear power plants.

Edit : "nuclear power plants", and also plenty of spelling mistakes to actually prove that i am an (enginere), ( engenere), (engeneer), i am good with math.

[blurglide]

Nuclear reactors only need a couple days of backup fuel to cool down- not an indefinite supply.

[Ikbeneengeit]

You forgot to mention the most serious damage: YouTube would go off-line.

[TheXanSam]

“Emp attacks could yield two results… a bad one or a very bad one.”

Thanks for my daily dose of anxiety 😂❤

[StayPrimal]

Electricity is so important. When I missed electricity for 34 hours 2 months ago, I realized how much my house become useless.

[ninjaman]

I don’t even know what the video is going to specifically say but I know America doesn’t need any kind of foreign interference for our electrical grid to break…

*stares at Texas and California*

[AndrewMeyer]

This is a threat I feel like we should definitely be investing more in mitigating. Even if the likelihood of an EMP event is small, the worst-case scenario is devastating enough that's it's almost certainly worth the up-front cost to be prepared for it. (Having a bunch of spare transformers on hand, for example, would be a really big up-front cost, but not a huge ongoing investment.)

[forthedoggiesguitars]

‘One Second After’ is an excellent book (fiction) that gives a realistic account of the after effects of an EMP. William R. Forstchen is the author of the series.

[GideonMesser]

As an electrical engineer, I'd like to point out that my fellow engineers have been hardening the grid against large induced currents from an EMP or geomagnetic storm for years. It's not perfect, but there are protective measures to minimize downtime.

[brightargyle]

Being prepared for a minimum of 3 weeks with food and water should be mandatory in all US households. Imagine not needing to rely on others for you necessities. I keep a supply of 3 months food and water on hand at all times, just in case. I grew up in an age where power outages could last up to a week or longer, my family got real used to waiting for the power to come back but we had everything we needed in the meantime.

[oliverfritsch]

My grandad worked at Bell labs and helped develop NORAD systems that would work after nuclear war broke out. Pretty wild shit

[HaHaBIah]

Emps, like the Y2K scare, will only be a non-issue if people work to mitigate and prevent their effects.
(Though it would be much more expensive to do so.)

[rzeqdw]

I lived in the area when the Metcalf attack happened.

The thing I find most concerning is that nobody has ever discovered who did it, and nobody seems all that worried about figuring out who did it. Makes you wonder if it's classified.

[tekpic]

There was articles published here in Britain several years ago on this topic and the question was asked, what young people do if the grid went down. The anser from the public, was to go to the hospital's and charge their mobile phones.

Life will never be the same without a smartphone!.

[justsomerandomguywithoutab]

people who fear technology and lives in isolation without electricity or advanced technology when a EMP event or a nuclear EMP attack occurs: I see this as an absolute win!

[jayyoutube]

The plant shown at the 3:50 mark is in the town next door. It’s not a nuclear plant, nor is it active anymore. It’s the “Bruce Mansfield” coal plant in Shippingport Pennsylvania along the Ohio river just northwest of Pittsburgh. The funny thing is, if the camera would of panes to the right, you would see the “Beaver valley power plant” that is a nuclear plant, and one of the 1st “commercial nuclear power plant”. It even has its own three-part documentary by the department of energy from back when it first started that is able to be found on YouTube. I drive past it everyday, caught me off guard when I saw it in the video 🤣

[tex_the_proto]

Considering I live on a farm, with some livestock and corn, wheat, and beans I'd say I'd be better off than most without power

[rayoflight]

Those large transformers are so be big for a reason, efficiency. Energy conversion efficiency goes from a minimum of 98% to a maximum of 100% for that 10 to 100 MW transformers. A 0.1% difference in efficiency translates in 100 KW heat dissipation!
In case of emergency is possible to connect in parallel a number of 400 KW transformers which can be built within days...

[marthaperdew]

My late husband, me and our kids lived without electricity for a year when we lived in the desert in New Mexico, i know how to cook over an open fire, cook on a wood stove, collect rain water, we ate rice and beans, had canned food, i know how to bake bread, i know how to plant a garden, raise chickens

[short-fuse]

A 50 Cent, mylar balloon, could take out our power grid. 😂