Solar Flare Proof Gear?

You guys are always so optimistic!!! :D

If you build a faraday cage, make sure it's properly grounded....

I don't know the extent of the damage, it's the power line transformers that worry me. It might be months before we're powered up again. Water collection, food, and shelter will be the main concerns. I sincerely hope I'm not travelling when this happens, even getting home from work will be an adventure (25 miles).

Simple equipment, e.g., stoves, knives, guns, tarps, FAK's, all good. It would be interesting to build a faraday cage to see if you could protect some things, such as vehicle ignition systems.
 
I don't think that there is anything you should specifically do other than normal survival planning, short term, medium, and long range plans, honest truth is that when the power goes out, it goes out, and you may not really know why until much later, even if the emergency broadcast systems were down, there would be no way to confirm it was TEOTWAWKI for quite some time. Even if all evidence supported a full blackout (cars won't run, battery powered electronics won't turn on) there is still the chance that it is a local phenomenon and not the big one.
the biggest factor is how long can you live primitively?
 
I heard the Mayan calendar was misinterpreted. We could have up to 100 years left. Cheer up!!

-Tye
 
When I worked in the foreign communications assessment side of DoD years back, some of our newbie scientists berated the Soviets because their radios were, in the main, still vacuum tube rather than solid state. This up to the mid 90s and beyond.

They changed their tune when it was explained that vacuum tubes are just about impervious to EMP, electro magnetic pulse, and also much more forgiving to mismatched antennas, etc. We've spent gazillions shielding and 'proofing' our comms gear against EMP and the Sovs, now the Russians, just smiled. The only disadvantage with tubes is size and their requirement for a lot more power vice solid state gear
 
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proud2deviate said:
Oh, don't worry. Gamma rays are much more energetic than microwaves. Microwave would just cause surface damage; gamma streams through and through, destroying chromosomes and generally wreaking havoc to your very core.
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That's gonna be AWESOME!

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Quirt said:
So with solar flare activity allegedly going to pick up in 2012 and it could potentially fry most things electronical, what absolute life essential bombproof gear must one have, where do I shop for them and if so which models?

I guess I'll start by asking what life essential gear would you suggest I should begin to assemble "just in case?"

Watch? All my watches are battery operated or solar charged. I suppose they'll be toast. So give me an idea of what kind of garage sale or ebay watch should I buy? Will any wind up watch live through a flare storm?

Radio? AM/FM, FRS, CB, & HAM...are there any flare proof radios I listed left on the market or in used shops I can search for? Suggestions?

Knife - ah the one tool I don't have to worry about! Next!

Vehicle/Transportation? I guess I need to buy a couple bicycles just in case. Even if I buy a Points type gasoline or diesal ignition system car/truck there is a remote chance I cannot get fuel for it anyway

Cooking? Standard Coleman will work

Lighting? I guess I need to get a Coleman Propane or Multi-Fuel

Other ideas/suggestions of bombproof gear one might consider having?
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All you have to do is, look for and learn to use Amish Technology. :cool::thumbup::D

And I already have, by selling my Sleep Number Bed for a nonelectric ear tag number bed.

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Yup faraday cage is what you need.

Also your microwave is a faraday cage...keep your sensitive electronics and electronic auto parts in there...just don't turn it on or it will fry your electronics lol.

But I agree, the power companies definely need to stock up on having extra transformers...so that they can quickly restore power to the millions of damaged transformers.
 
Rat Finkenstein said:
I think the atmosphere will protect us, as it has always done.
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Exactly, we've already been hit with the most powerful type of solar flare a few years back, I didn't lose any electronics. I think people need to watch penn & tellers BS about the whole apocolypse subject
 
I recently read an article that was talking about a satellite warning system for solar flares. The idea is that A satellite would detect the coming solar flare and predict where it would have the greatest impact on earth's electronics. This system would give them some time to disable the power grid for that region. Basically, the government shuts down the entire power grid for an area until safe levels are returned, then, hopefully, powers everything right back up.

Heres a link:

http://dvice.com/archives/2010/11/nasa-plans-earl.php
 
For a watch, you need something non-battery powered. Any mechanical watch should do, as when you wind them, the energy to move the hands is stored in a spring, not a battery.

The fastest vehicle that's gauranteed to work is a bicycle. Skateboard, scooter, etc will also work. The car with the biggest chance of working is the simplest. Get one without an ECU...something with a dizzy and carbs.

For cooking, a standard wood fire is always easy to all back on.

For lighting, candles are always going to work.
 
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