Not an RF engineer, but assuming a solar flare couldn’t would be hubris. A nuke delivers it’s power like a square wave, induces harmonics all over the place, besides the first induction that occurs in wiring/circuitry. Much larger chance of causing issues.
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A solar flare large enough will induce into everything. Basically, it could cause the atmosphere and anything magnetically active to “ring”. Don’t know if the event spoken of is such an event.
Also, the leakage current protections that were installed since the last flare induced blackouts have rating limits, just like any electrical component in existence. A large enough flare could conceivably overload those protections.
Given all this, I am still a optimist. Statistically, we don’t know of cases larger than we have seen thus far. So I would guess this would have been one of those uneventful events. Our isolation systems are vastly improved from the days of melting telegraph lines, both in quality of insulation, and system design.
“Not an RF engineer, but assuming a solar flare couldn’t would be hubris.”
No it isn’t hubris. It’s fact. A solar flare does not generate an EMP that directly damages electronics like a nuclear EMP.
“A nuke delivers it’s power like a square wave, induces harmonics all over the place, besides the first induction that occurs in wiring/circuitry. Much larger chance of causing issues.”
You just wrote nonsense. You do not appear to know anything about this subject. Please try again.
“A solar flare large enough will induce into everything.”
No it won’t. Again, you do not appear to know anything about this subject. Please try again.