Electonic Things

[80watts]

Every thing we have today that is a consumer item is the want of something electronic. Whether its a phone, computer, game, car, etc. Everything is tied to some type of electronic device for better performance.
Books can be held in electonice format on computer or ereader. Most work is done on computers today. With most of our knowledge stored on computers.
An EMP can knock out all electonics not protected by a Faraday cage. Therefore most electronics will be burnt out by the EMP. Which means replacing all electronic components. Or fullscale replacement of the electronic (new computer or ereader)
A nuclear weapon sets off EMP.
The notion came from the Fast and Furious where Vin Diesel steals a EMP device....
So other movies the EMP device was in?

 

[addicted2lov]

That's the covid for electronics you're talking about. Talking about the end of the life as we know it and worrying that all PPE stuff is made in China. Luckily the EMP has effects over a pretty limited area unless it's originated at high altitude.

 

[sybian]

The firefighter in me just has to ask....how could an electric mobile pump knock out our electronic devices all at once?
Although I will say, even those expensive government computers don’t fair well on the wrong end of a fire hose in a forest fire.....
( they’ve threatened to issue me only one device every year, it seems I’m kinda hard on equipment while fighting a stubborn interface.)

 

[PuntMeister]

I like my kitchen knives. No microchips and they work reliably during pandemics, power surges, and drunken mumbley peg exhibitions.

 

[80watts]

EMP- Electro-Magnetic pulse. Usually happens when they explode an atomic bomb. Usually destroys all working (meaning they are being used/are flashed up)electronics that are not hardened (by faraday cages). The EMP just fries the electronics. Things that don't fry are vacuum tubes and electonics that are turned off. Man made EMP can be a large surge of energy that will again fry unprotected electronics.
But I was asking about movies that had an emp in it.