Hello Tex - "As I’ve said before, you might want to go deeper than the three feet of earth cover recommended in traditional civil defense manuals. I think it is going to be quite the fireworks show." What is the scale of fireworks required to reduce the U.S. to a non-competitive and non-influential country?
I think less than 8 megatons on the capitol cities, a 100 megger on D.C. and a few strategic highways and ports and the referee would be giving America the count. We don't have many people left who can spell "Megaton."
My one hope in all of this is that Tim Cohen is correct and we are entering the tribulation with Prince, now King Charles, as the validated Antichrist, which means Jesus' return is not far away (https://www.prophecyhouse.com/) and if he is incorrect, Suspicious0bservers.org is correct with the ~12,000 year galactic cycle ready to shut down everything electronic, with a precursor Carrington-like event sending all of us back to a pre-electrical 1850 before the big solar micro nova. I prefer Jesus' return but either way, nothing is going to be the same in 10 years.
Anything connected to the planet wide copper grid is going to get vaporized. I don't believe current can be induced sufficiently from even the most drastic solar flare to burn out electronics that have good grounding, lightning suppressors, less than ten feet per unit in most cases of ferrous wire and radio equipment not connected to an antenna during the event. So plenty of retreaters, preppers and survivalists will have their equipment survive, even without a Faraday cage in most cases. I emphasize the use of optical fibre for runs over ten feet to anything, even underground. I believe all these things are practical, reducing the price point has been a big focus of my research over the past 25 years. If I can, I try to reduce the costs of all elements in VAULT-SYS to 1.99 as a target, even thin client browsers to connect as monitoring stations.
P.S. At one point I think in 2009 I successfully installed both DOS and VAULT-OS (the early version) on a thin client I bought off Ebay for $5. I bought a similar model for $12 and used it as a remote station on the first. The only additional part required was the ethernet hub (I found thirty of them thrown out behind an office once) and the ethernet cable, which I scrounged up from another bin in Sydney when I was working in the city. Price is my main concern, which is why I do not have some profit as my target for success ... rather success for me is reducing the cost of a fantastic setup to around $10 for people. That would be what I would consider success of my project.
As to your work, which I greatly respect, keep pushing the envelope. I have always believed in the old saw, "Necessity is the mother of invention" to which I would add, "The needed resource is the father."
You ought to talk with Ben at S0 about the induced current issue. You could look at his math. He is betting on multi-level plastic bins as grounded items become a source during ground induction.. It is not my area of expertise. We are not talking about the solar flare in the end, while that is an intermediate issue, but the solar micro-nova, something on the order of X10,000+. You are talking about enough induced current to unlock the crust from the mantle that will allow the Bay of Bengal to become the new north pole.
Hello Tex - "As I’ve said before, you might want to go deeper than the three feet of earth cover recommended in traditional civil defense manuals. I think it is going to be quite the fireworks show." What is the scale of fireworks required to reduce the U.S. to a non-competitive and non-influential country?
I think less than 8 megatons on the capitol cities, a 100 megger on D.C. and a few strategic highways and ports and the referee would be giving America the count. We don't have many people left who can spell "Megaton."
My one hope in all of this is that Tim Cohen is correct and we are entering the tribulation with Prince, now King Charles, as the validated Antichrist, which means Jesus' return is not far away (https://www.prophecyhouse.com/) and if he is incorrect, Suspicious0bservers.org is correct with the ~12,000 year galactic cycle ready to shut down everything electronic, with a precursor Carrington-like event sending all of us back to a pre-electrical 1850 before the big solar micro nova. I prefer Jesus' return but either way, nothing is going to be the same in 10 years.
Anything connected to the planet wide copper grid is going to get vaporized. I don't believe current can be induced sufficiently from even the most drastic solar flare to burn out electronics that have good grounding, lightning suppressors, less than ten feet per unit in most cases of ferrous wire and radio equipment not connected to an antenna during the event. So plenty of retreaters, preppers and survivalists will have their equipment survive, even without a Faraday cage in most cases. I emphasize the use of optical fibre for runs over ten feet to anything, even underground. I believe all these things are practical, reducing the price point has been a big focus of my research over the past 25 years. If I can, I try to reduce the costs of all elements in VAULT-SYS to 1.99 as a target, even thin client browsers to connect as monitoring stations.
P.S. At one point I think in 2009 I successfully installed both DOS and VAULT-OS (the early version) on a thin client I bought off Ebay for $5. I bought a similar model for $12 and used it as a remote station on the first. The only additional part required was the ethernet hub (I found thirty of them thrown out behind an office once) and the ethernet cable, which I scrounged up from another bin in Sydney when I was working in the city. Price is my main concern, which is why I do not have some profit as my target for success ... rather success for me is reducing the cost of a fantastic setup to around $10 for people. That would be what I would consider success of my project.
As to your work, which I greatly respect, keep pushing the envelope. I have always believed in the old saw, "Necessity is the mother of invention" to which I would add, "The needed resource is the father."
You ought to talk with Ben at S0 about the induced current issue. You could look at his math. He is betting on multi-level plastic bins as grounded items become a source during ground induction.. It is not my area of expertise. We are not talking about the solar flare in the end, while that is an intermediate issue, but the solar micro-nova, something on the order of X10,000+. You are talking about enough induced current to unlock the crust from the mantle that will allow the Bay of Bengal to become the new north pole.