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To: CodeToad
"The fact that there hasn’t been a nuclear attack on our soil goes to show they are pretty smart."

Yup. BTW, why can't we just put a large Faraday Cage around the transformers? Simple, inexpensive, and doable tomorrow. Or am I wrong?

162 posted on 12/01/2018 1:06:39 PM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: A Navy Vet

A Faraday cage will do nothing to protect a EVH transformer from a massive power surge traveling down power lines and overloading it’s windings.
There are no where enough adequate surge protection installed on power lines and power stations to negate the risk of catastrophic failure.


166 posted on 12/01/2018 1:31:06 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: A Navy Vet

The lines feeding the transformers would act like giant fuses if that much energy ever went down them. We have all kinds of spark gaps and overvoltage arrestors such that no voltage large enough to overheat a distribution transformer could ever happen.

For any of this EMP nonsense to happen, we first must put away science and use science fiction.


174 posted on 12/01/2018 2:07:31 PM PST by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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