Monday, September 5, 2011

Faraday bags -- an inexpensive & fast Zip-loc® sandwich-bag solution for EMP ? = Electro Magnetic Pulse

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An EMP-aware friend of mine suggested I investigate the Faraday bags made by this company below in Texas, so last week I bought several to test their quality.  The bags were delivered in only 2 days and seem extremely well-made.

Do you own due diligence, but I was very impressed.

Contact:

        TECH PROTECT LLC
        Tech Protect Bag
        Spring, TX
        email:  Info@techprotectbag.com

        http://techprotectbag.com

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Posted 23 July 2011 by:

David A. Palella
Founder
EMP DEFENSE COUNCIL(TM)
[ Electro-Magnetic Pulse Defense Council(TM) ]

[ a business unit of BioScience Ventures Inc. ]

San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email:  dpalella@gmail.com

http://EMP411.blogspot.com

EMP Defense Council -- Preparing for Electro-Magnetic Pulse
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/3702799/

Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Defense Council(C) Founded in San Diego, California on Pearl Harbor Day
http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=695425

The EMP Defense Council(C) Announces the Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Priority Hardening List Ranked by Industry Vulnerability, and Proposes a Markets-Based Approach to Addressing Solar or Nuclear EMP Events
http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=708639

"Corporate & Director Liability in Major Disasters: Quantifying the Potential Risks and Opportunities"
[ the first EMP-focused seminar for business in Southern California ]

08 March 2011 @ Mintz Levin law offices, San Diego, CA
http://www.mintz.com/newsletter/2011/Events/0903-0111-SD-LIT/email.html


P.S. 1:  Here is a 145-year history of major solar storrms:

-->>  http://www.solarstorms.org/SRefStorms.html

P.S. 2:  Watch EMP tests conducted at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.  Highly confined and man-made EMPs instantly and permanently disable a flying model helicopter and a full-sized automobile in motion:

“EMP Part 1”:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvu08Y9XJ0U

“EMP Part 2”:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0odJKYTzXg8

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A radioactive business continuity issue? -- Got Nuclear Insurance Coverage ?

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"Willis launches nuclear exclusion zone cover"

26 August 2011 -- Insurance Daily (U.K.)

"Willis has launched a product for companies with key locations, suppliers or customers located in the vicinity of a nuclear power station.

The new offering covers business interruption costs should a plant’s safety be compromised and an exclusion zone be put in place, having been developed in response to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The consequent radiation leak saw a 20 kilometre exclusion zone imposed around the plant and manufacturers and other businesses within the zone were forced to close, regardless of whether they had suffered any damage.

According to Willis, traditional property damage and business interruption policies usually contain a radioactive contamination exclusion clause, which excludes any damage, denial of access or other consequences arising from nuclear radiation or contamination.

Willis Global Markets International chief executive officer, Toby Wemyss, comments: “With over 440 commercial nuclear power reactors operating in 30 countries, exclusion zone risk is a very real threat to business around the world.”

He adds: “We were reminded again of the potential for loss on 23rd August, when the earthquake centred near Richmond, Virginia, prompted the declaration of an “unusual event” at seven US nuclear power plants, and we are proud to have found an insurance solution to help our clients mitigate this risk.”

http://www.insurancedaily.co.uk/2011/08/26/willis-launches-nuclear-exclusion-zone-cover/

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POSTED 27 August 2011 by:

David A. Palella
Founder
EMP DEFENSE COUNCIL(sm)
[ Electro-Magnetic Pulse Defense Council(sm) ]

San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email:  dpalella@gmail.com

http://EMP411.blogspot.com

EMP Defense Council -- Preparing for Electro-Magnetic Pulse
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/3702799/


(1) Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Defense Council(C) Founded in San Diego, California on Pearl Harbor Day

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=695425


(2) The EMP Defense Council(C) Announces the Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Priority Hardening List Ranked by Industry Vulnerability, and Proposes a Markets-Based Approach to Addressing Solar or Nuclear EMP Events

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=708639


(3) EMP Defense Council(SM) Highlights Calculable Risks of Solar Cycle Peak in 2013

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=784096


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If you think EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse) events are coming to a continent near you within the next 10 years then...

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I recently posted on various LinkedIn.com groups asking what specific steps companies have taken to prepare for major EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse) events -- large-scale geomagnetic storms (solar flares) or high-altitude nuclear explosions.  The responses ranged from flippant comments saying it was futile to do anything because the nationwide electrical grid would be destroyed anyway, to sensible suggestions for corporate survival when there may be no or intermittent electrical supply nationwide for weeks or months.

Possibly years.  Plus partial breakdown of emergency services and/or social order for weeks or months.

In sum, there seems to be small appreciation in the Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery / Insurance communities for the gravity of the danger of EMP events and their high likelihood of taking place during our professional lifetimes.

For those of you with serious interest in having your companies withstand an EMP event -- and in seeing EMP events as potential corporate business opportunities -- please join our dedicated discussion group on the topic here:

-->>  EMP Defense Council -- Preparing for Electro-Magnetic Pulse

-->>  http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/3702799/


Posted by:

David A. Palella
Founder
EMP DEFENSE COUNCIL(sm)
[ Electro-Magnetic Pulse Defense Council(sm) ]

San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email:  dpalella@gmail.com

http://EMP411.blogspot.com

EMP Defense Council -- Preparing for Electro-Magnetic Pulse
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/3702799/

(1) Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Defense Council(C) Founded in San Diego, California on Pearl Harbor Day

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=695425


(2) The EMP Defense Council(C) Announces the Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Priority Hardening List Ranked by Industry Vulnerability, and Proposes a Markets-Based Approach to Addressing Solar or Nuclear EMP Events

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=708639


(3) EMP Defense Council(SM) Highlights Calculable Risks of Solar Cycle Peak in 2013

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=784096


(4) "Corporate & Director Liability in Major Disasters: Quantifying the Potential Risks and Opportunities"

08 March 2011 @ Mintz Levin law offices, San Diego, CA

http://www.mintz.com/newsletter/2011/Events/0903-0111-SD-LIT/email.html


P.S. 1:  Here is a 145-year history of major solar storms:

-->> http://www.solarstorms.org/SRefStorms.html


P.S. 2:  Watch EMP tests conducted at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.  Highly confined and man-made EMPs instantly and permanently disable a flying model helicopter and a full-sized automobile in motion:

“EMP Part 1”:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvu08Y9XJ0U

“EMP Part 2”:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0odJKYTzXg8

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NASA Hosts News Conference on Solar Flares on 07 Sept 2011

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Washington, DC (01 Sept 2011)


"NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011, to discuss new observations about solar flares that can impact communication and navigation systems.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is providing new data and images for scientists to better understand the sun's dynamic processes, which can affect Earth.  The spacecraft launched in February 2010.

Teleconference participants are:

-- Madhulika Guhathakurta, SDO program scientist, NASA Headquarters

-- Tom Woods, principal investigator, SDO Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE), University of Colorado, Boulder

-- Rodney Viereck, director, Space Weather Prediction Testbed, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, Colorado

-- Karel Schrijver, principal investigator, SDO Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, Calif.

-- Rachel Hock, EVE instrument scientist, University of Colorado, Boulder

To participate in the teleconference, reporters must contact Steve Cole at 202-358-0918 or stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov by 9 a.m. EDT on Sept. 7 for dial-in instructions."

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on the Web at:

-->>  http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

Supporting information for the briefing will be posted at:

-->>  http://www.nasa.gov/sunearth


NASA Contact:

Steve Cole
Headquarters, Washington
tel: 202-358-0918
email:  stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/sep/HQ_M11-183_SDO_Telecon.html

Or:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/releases/2011/11-056.html

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POSTED 02 Sept 2011 by:

David A. Palella
Founder
EMP DEFENSE COUNCIL(sm)
[ Electro-Magnetic Pulse Defense Council(sm) ]

San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email:  dpalella@gmail.com

http://EMP411.blogspot.com

EMP Defense Council -- Preparing for Electro-Magnetic Pulse
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/3702799/


(1) Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Defense Council(C) Founded in San Diego, California on Pearl Harbor Day

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=695425


(2) The EMP Defense Council(C) Announces the Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Priority Hardening List Ranked by Industry Vulnerability, and Proposes a Markets-Based Approach to Addressing Solar or Nuclear EMP Events

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=708639


(3) EMP Defense Council(SM) Highlights Calculable Risks of Solar Cycle Peak in 2013

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=784096

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Severe Space Weather a Substantive Threat to "Business as Usual" on Earth until 2017

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These 2 seminal articles below in a well-known insurance publication explain why solar flares or geomagnetic storms and their Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) sequelae (negative after-effects) are a substantive threat to U.S. & European companies -- and society in general -- until 2017.

So the message about the danger of Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) is indeed becoming known to the common [ insurance ] man, to echo a famous U.S. Supreme Court decision -- "I don't know how to define EMP, but I know it when I see it."

Does your company have General Liability, D&O, E&O and Business Interruption insurance to protect against EMP ?

Most CEOs & CFOs don't know the answer, sadly.

And now from the horse's mouth:

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"Risk Management & Space Weather: Are You Ready?"

Published in:  National Underwriter P&C [ Property & Casualty ]

September 5, 2011

By Nicole Homeier, Kyle Beatty, James Martin Griffin

http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2011/09/01/risk-management-space-weather-are-you-ready?t=public-sector

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"Defining Space Weather"

Published in:  National Underwriter P&C [ Property & Casualty ]

September 5, 2011

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"This means that from now until 2017 or so, we should be on alert for strong solar flares and large coronal-mass ejections.  Historically, the strongest storms happen during the decline of the solar cycle, so the period from 2013 through 2017 may pose the largest risk."

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http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2011/09/01/defining-space-weather?t=public-sector

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POSTED 03 Sept 2011 by:

David A. Palella
Founder
EMP DEFENSE COUNCIL(sm)
[ Electro-Magnetic Pulse Defense Council(sm) ]

San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email:  dpalella@gmail.com

http://EMP411.blogspot.com

EMP Defense Council -- Preparing for Electro-Magnetic Pulse
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/3702799/


(1) Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Defense Council(C) Founded in San Diego, California on Pearl Harbor Day

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=695425


(2) The EMP Defense Council(C) Announces the Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Priority Hardening List Ranked by Industry Vulnerability, and Proposes a Markets-Based Approach to Addressing Solar or Nuclear EMP Events

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=708639


(3) EMP Defense Council(SM) Highlights Calculable Risks of Solar Cycle Peak in 2013

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=784096

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Why did I start the EMP Preparedness group on LinkedIn...?

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Because I heard about this seminal and scary book:


"One Second After" -- a novel

By William R. Forstchen -- March 2009


"In order to graphically demonstrate the devastation of an EMP event, author Forstchen has created a novel in which the inhabitants of a small town (Black Mountain, N.C.) fight for survival in the aftermath of an E.M.P. attack."

Here is my group on LinkedIn.com:

-->>  EMP Defense Council -- Preparing for Electro-Magnetic Pulse

-->>  http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/3702799/


And here are some links related to the book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Second_After

http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-William-Forstchen/dp/0765317583

http://www.savevid.com/video/emp-electromagnetic-pulse-attacks-pt1-william-forstchen.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3RSR0dDW0

http://www.smokymountainnews.com/news/item/2973-in-new-novel-outlook-is-grim-without-technology

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POSTED 03 Sept 2011 by:

David A. Palella
Founder
EMP DEFENSE COUNCIL(sm)
[ Electro-Magnetic Pulse Defense Council(sm) ]

San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email:  dpalella@gmail.com

http://EMP411.blogspot.com

EMP Defense Council -- Preparing for Electro-Magnetic Pulse

http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/3702799/


(1) Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Defense Council(C) Founded in San Diego, California on Pearl Harbor Day

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=695425


(2) The EMP Defense Council(C) Announces the Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Priority Hardening List Ranked by Industry Vulnerability, and Proposes a Markets-Based Approach to Addressing Solar or Nuclear EMP Events

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=708639


(3) EMP Defense Council(SM) Highlights Calculable Risks of Solar Cycle Peak in 2013

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=784096

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Re-design of Electronic / Electrical Products to Resist EMP -- Electro-Magnetic Pulse events

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Severe Space Weather or Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) a Substantive Threat to most Electronic Products on Earth until 2017


Last year we founded the EMP Defense Council(sm) or Electro-Magnetic Pulse Defense Council(sm) in San Diego to prepare America for EMP by promoting the adoption of markets- and standards-based measures to encourage companies to re-design their products to withstand / resist EMP.

If you have interest in re-designing consumer products, durable goods and capital equipment to resist EMP, or to teach a course on this subject, please contact me.

David Palella
Founder
EMP Defense Council(sm)
San Diego, California

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POSTED 04 Sept 2011 by:

David A. Palella
Founder
EMP DEFENSE COUNCIL(sm)
[ Electro-Magnetic Pulse Defense Council(sm) ]

San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email:  dpalella@gmail.com

http://EMP411.blogspot.com

EMP Defense Council -- Preparing for Electro-Magnetic Pulse
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/3702799/


(1) Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Defense Council(C) Founded in San Diego, California on Pearl Harbor Day

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=695425


(2) The EMP Defense Council(C) Announces the Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Priority Hardening List Ranked by Industry Vulnerability, and Proposes a Markets-Based Approach to Addressing Solar or Nuclear EMP Events

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=708639


(3) EMP Defense Council(SM) Highlights Calculable Risks of Solar Cycle Peak in 2013

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=784096


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Remember: Geomagnetic Storms Fry the Electric Grid from Top **AND** Bottom !

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1859 Carrington Event = the Mother of alll Global Electrocution Sandwiches!


This article below will remind us all that severe geomagnetic storms cause not only powerful subterranean ground currents that can fry power station transformers from the bottom up (a la Quebec in 1989), but they also cause equally powerful above-ground flux in the Earth's magnetic lines of force causing large voltage spikes in allll loooong conductors -- such as copper telephone and power transmission lines -- thus also frying power station transformers from the top down.

Many commentators forget the threat to the grid is *dual* -- including both high-voltage torpedoes and air-to-air missiles.

Sadly, large transformers (and capacitors) will become the meat in a high-voltage sandwich.

So not only are ground resistors needed for every transformer in the U.S., but also allll transmission lines would have to be disconnected from every transformer to save the equipment in the case of a geomagnetic storm.

In short -- hee hee -- the entire grid would have to be shut down regionwide or nationwide before it was shorted out.

Gentlemen, ssssssstarrrrrrt your back-up generators !! -- and pray they survive dual voltage surges too !!

Very Electro-Magnanimously yours,

David Palella
Founder
EMP Defense Council(sm)


Now let's cut to the article:


"Sept. 2, 1859: Telegraphs Run on Electric Air in Crazy Magnetic Storm"

By Alexis Madrigal -- Wired Science

02 Sept 2011

[ email:  alexis_madrigal@wired.com ]


"On Sept. 2, 1859, at the telegraph office at No. 31 State Street in Boston at 9:30 a.m., the operators’ lines were overflowing with current, so they unplugged the batteries connected to their machines, and kept working using just the electricity coursing through the air.

"In the wee hours of that night, the most brilliant auroras ever recorded had broken out across the skies of the Earth.  People in Havana and Florida reported seeing them.  The New York Times ran a 3,000-word feature recording the colorful event in purple prose."

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Full article here:

http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2011/09/0902magnetic-storm-disrupts-telegraphy-carrington-event/

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POSTED 05 Sept 2011 by:

David A. Palella
Founder
EMP DEFENSE COUNCIL(sm)
[ Electro-Magnetic Pulse Defense Council(sm) ]

San Diego, California
cell: 619-787-5767
email:  dpalella@gmail.com

http://EMP411.blogspot.com

EMP Defense Council -- Preparing for Electro-Magnetic Pulse
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/3702799/


(1) Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Defense Council(C) Founded in San Diego, California on Pearl Harbor Day

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=695425


(2) The EMP Defense Council(C) Announces the Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) Priority Hardening List Ranked by Industry Vulnerability, and Proposes a Markets-Based Approach to Addressing Solar or Nuclear EMP Events

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=708639


(3) EMP Defense Council(SM) Highlights Calculable Risks of Solar Cycle Peak in 2013

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=784096

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