{"id":34081,"date":"2018-05-08T08:25:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34081"},"modified":"2018-05-08T08:25:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:25:15","slug":"how-to-make-a-faraday-cage-in-4-easy-steps-and-what-to-put-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34081","title":{"rendered":"How to Make a Faraday Cage in 4 Easy Steps (and What to Put In It)"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to Make a Faraday Cage in 4 Easy Steps (and What to Put In It)<\/a><\/h3>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/h3>\n

If you\u2019ve been in the prepper world for long, you\u2019ve probably read some horrifying books about what can happen after a disaster called an EMP.\u00a0 And if you\u2019ve done that, you know you need to protect vulnerable electronics. Today, we\u2019ll talk about how to make a Faraday cage to do just that. Don\u2019t worry \u2013 you won\u2019t need a degree in physics to do this successfully.<\/p>\n

First, let\u2019s start off with a few important things to know.<\/p>\n

What is an EMP?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEMP\u201d is short for electromagnetic pulse. It is a short burst of electromagnetic radiation that could come if a nuclear detonation occurred at very high altitude above us.<\/p>\n

When a nuclear explosion occurs in space above a target, three types of electromagnetic pulses follow: E1, E2, and E3. An E1 pulse involves high-energy gamma rays colliding with air molecules nearly 20 miles above, then raining down electrons that get pulled in by Earth\u2019s natural magnetic field. An E2 pulse comes from high-energy neutrons that get fired in every direction, and an E3 pulse occurs due to the size of the nuclear fireball itself affecting the Earth\u2019s magnetic field. As\u00a0nuclear physicist Dr. Yousaf Butt explains<\/a>, these pulses affect everything in line of sight of the nuclear blast. For example, a blast at 60 miles up can affect a 700-mile radius on Earth. (source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And by \u201caffect everything\u201d they mean everything with a circuit board. Your car. Your laptop. Your computerized medical devices. The power grid in general.\u00a0 All of it.<\/p>\n

This probably sounds like a sci-fi disaster movie \u2013 and it is like that. But it could happen. The\u00a0Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack has warned Congress of the devastation that could follow such an event.\u00a0 But for some reason, Congress defunded them last year.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to Make a Faraday Cage in 4 Easy Steps (and What to Put In It) If you\u2019ve been in the prepper world for long, you\u2019ve probably read some horrifying books about what can happen after a disaster called an EMP.\u00a0 And if you\u2019ve done that, you know you need to protect vulnerable electronics. Today, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6156,4022,1914,20078,650,5756],"class_list":["post-34081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-daisy-luther","tag-electro-magnetic-pulse","tag-emp","tag-faraday-cage","tag-prepping","tag-the-organic-prepper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34082,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34081\/revisions\/34082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}