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To: Eric who wrote (8318)	5/19/2009 9:27:39 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

So as an engineer who has worked with RF emitting devices most of my life (some into the megawatt range) I am not the slightest bit worried about electric cars generating an emp pulse of any significant magnitude. I never said they would do it on their own account. What I'm afraid of is that the ultracapacitor could be used as the POWER SOURCE for an EMP HERF weapon. Right now it's difficult to obtain such high-power energy sources in a discreet manner. All kinds of records are involved that would assist in tracking down and convicting the perpetrators. But put several million of these mobile high capacity energy sources on the road and every car could conceivably be readily converted into an EMP IED. There are all kinds of plans online for creating homemade EMP devices, many of which are apparently quite effective if properly placed in the vicinity of a high density network node. Granted, it's probably not an insurmountable problem, but it had better be something we're concerned about if we want to protect our electronic infrastructure. Fortunately, the more we move into optical networks, the less vulnerable we are to EMP. Hawk