How would an earthlike planet be affected by continual EMPs?

Suppose there's an earth-like planet, perhaps even modern day earth itself - and at one point in time, it began to be bombarded by a continual stream of Electromagnetic Pulses.

For the sake of simplicity let's say that the EMPs are coming from a set of cloaked alien satellites orbiting the planet, and all areas are being hit at least once every few seconds.

The EMPs are just strong enough to ruin a modern-day power grid and make modern-day electronics inoperable outside Faraday cages.

The question is both about the society's coping mechanism (assuming they have hundreds of years to adjust) and the environmental effects, but I'm far more interested in the latter.

I believe computers can be redeveloped using Fluidics or something to the effect, and until long range communication can be re-established most of the world will find itself divided into city-states connected by steam-powered trains. I have not found any evidence indicating that such EMPs will be harmful to humans, but there's barely any info on how it would affect the rest of the environment.

Is this scenario feasible, or did I miss some fundamental change here?

posted almost 9 years ago

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