Posted on 07/30/2021 6:38:22 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
"They called it “Starfish Prime.” On July 9, 1962, the US military exploded a thermonuclear warhead 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. What happened next surprised everyone. Witnesses from Hawaii to New Zealand reported auroras dancing overhead, magnificent midnight “rainbow stripes” that tropical sky watchers had never seen before. Radios fell silent, then suddenly became noisy. Burglar alarms sounded as local streetlights in Honolulu went black."
...Snip..."Geomagnetic storms are famous for causing power blackouts. snip... EMPs can do it, too. Lurching magnetic fields cause electrical currents to flow through the ground. Literally, rocks beneath your feet begin to tingle with electricity. These currents, in turn, make their way into grounded electric-power grids, potentially damaging transformers and blacking out power supplies."
The crucial point of Love’s paper is this: Earth is not the same everywhere. In recent years, researchers have been sounding Earth’s crust to determine the 3D electrical properties of our planet. These magnetotelluric surveys reveal huge variations in conductivity from place to place, depending on the mix of underlying rock.
Love has been one of the pioneers in applying this type of Earth data to space weather, predicting how global geomagnetic storms might affect local power lines. Now he and his colleagues are doing the same with EMPs." (full article at the link)
(Excerpt) Read more at spaceweatherarchive.com ...
Bookmarked for later. Found this cool time-lapse
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945
https://rumble.com/vjzg7x-a-time-lapse-map-of-every-nuclear-explosion-since-1945.html
The Russians found out the same thing when they did they detonated a 300 kT nuclear warhead only 150 km (93 miles) above the ground. The EMP seriously damaged power lines and even got a power station in the small city of Karaganda to catch on fire.
Ping.
Electric Universe Ping!
“Earth is not the same everywhere. In recent years, researchers have been sounding Earth’s crust to determine the 3D electrical properties of our planet. These magnetotelluric surveys reveal huge variations in conductivity from place to place, depending on the mix of underlying rock.”
NB recall that one way of detecting submarines is MAD (magnetic anomaly detector) e.g. local changes to background magnetic field caused by a large chunk of steel (a submarine).
Large physical deposits of ferromagnetic material would therefore affect the local magnetic fields: which in turn has implications for EMP...
One of the Starfish detonations sizzled the electronics in Telstar, the first active communications satellite.
Starfish was hastily done as a response to the USSR’s “Tsar Bomba” test.
Red sky at night,
Sailors in flight!.......................
“which determined that sedimentary rock is more conductive than igneous rock”
OK, This has me intrigued... Wonder why? We know igneous has more metals, so what would make sedimentary more conductive? Silica? This needs further investigation. Could explain why Vortexes are found in places with sedimentary. But why?
Oym. Maybe sedimentary contains more water and the water contains mineral salts that allows current flow through fractured areas?? Just a guess.
Wouldn’t sedimentary rock be pervious to water while igneous rock is impervious? So there would be water content in sedimentary rock that would increase conductivity?
But why?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
We do not know.
We know little about geo conductivity, and even less about the array of energy being conducted, electricticty being only one of several, such as gravity, magnetism, heat, tectonic etc.
I don’t know, Interesting question if water is the factor. here in Az we are almost all sedimentary sandstone and dry as a bone deep with very very few aquifers. Yet we have several vortexes like the well known Sedona area.
In a now dry area, ancient water bodies could have left salts behind, so that would still be a conductivity factor.
Water very well could be the factor... I don’t know though, here in Az we are almost all sedimentary sandstone and have very little water under us.
True, but there is almost as much salt and ancient salt deposits and salt leaching all over the southwest that are primarily igneous too.
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Protection and Resilience Guidelines for Critical Infrastructure and Equipment Feb 2019 (Unclassified)
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/19_0307_CISA_EMP-Protection-Resilience-Guidelines.pdf
On 2nd page under :
Table 1. Four EMP Protection Levels for Infrastructure and Equipment
On the last of the series Skin Walker Ranch, anomalies were found around the world where very large meteorites have struck.
The Sedona Vortex?? And maybe the iron content of the soils and rock is a factor? I know that there are minerals such as quartz that are used to clock electrical clocks and circuits. (pizoelectric effect.) Avoiding that rabbit hole. Thats another thread.
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