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+-   EMP shielded power grids under development on Saturday October 11 2008, @02:39AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 11 2008, @02:39AM
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An anonymous reader writes "A crude nuclear device fitted onto a Scud missile, fired and detonated 80 miles into the air and affect the entire U.S. east coast, causing up to $10 trillion in damage instantly. To ensure that critical networks like military, financial and power would function in such an event, Instant Access Networks LLC and Frostburg State University physics and engineering professor Hilkat Soysal are teaming--through a $165,000 project recently approved by the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program--to create renewable energy-powered, electromagnetic pulse (EMP)-protected microgrids that could provide electricity for critical infrastructure facilities in the event of a disaster."
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