Posted on 11/16/2020 8:03:02 AM PST by Red Badger
Does nobody read the articles anymore?
” In case it would hit our planet, it would mostly result in auroras in either the northern or southern polar regions.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm
Only out for nine hours. It kicked circuit breakers.
“”” The utility’s very long transmission lines and the fact that most of Quebec sits on a large rock shield prevented current flowing through the earth, finding a less resistant path along the 735 kV power lines. “””
We have an electric fence and most of the time it runs 8,800 volts but in July/Aug, it runs 2,300 volts due to the soil being dry and not being a good ground. This is with three 8 foot ground rods going into clay. Similar situation to above. We went through several cordless phones during storms. I finally put a ground rod right next to the phone box and tied on to it and we haven’t had one blow up since but we also switched brand names of phone so I’m not sure which was the fix. We also tend to make a habit of unplugging the cordless and using a regular phone if there’s lightning.
I seriously doubt all of these Made in China electronics are protected so if nothing else, we’ll have a mass shortage of electric/electronic gadgets. I’ve seen newer automotive electric components fry just with a design or component fault and a lot of the electronic components in them are Made in China too.
The old telegraph lines were pretty crude. A bare copper wire with old insulators of some sort. Don’t know if they were porcelain or not. Some outfit did a emp test of 37 cars but the newest was 2002. That’s not the same as a CME though. I guess we’ll find out what happens when/if we get a direct hit some day. Cyber attack might be more likely.
Not a bad idea to have an old car and keep a spare set of ignition parts and maybe a starter and store them in an old microwave or something. At least my little tractor should be ok. The hood wraps down around everything and it’s kept in a metal shed. It’s a mechanically injected diesel. Starters are readily available and in abundance. I could get to town Amish style. It would be an all day affair but I could do it. The MFA gas/fuel station has old pumps. There was a gas/fuel station near where we used to live that still had above ground tanks. They were connected to pumps but also had spigots on the tanks.
Newt Gingrich spent a year or two advocating for the hardening of our systems from an EMP attack but he got no traction.
We’ve lived off grid before so we’ll survive. Cities would not be a good place to be. It will be like this past summer on steroids.
“Something that set telegraph station on fire isn’t going to melt PCBs?”
No it won’t. Not directly anyways. It is the miles of telegraph wires that were the problem. Miles of wire being cut by the same magnetic wave generated a very large current.
That would go against tradition...................
A DC voltage presents much more difficulty of arc suppression in atmosphere once ignited. Special safety device designs for DC systems incorporate magnetic snubbers and special gas mixtures to improve survival and function of the devices.
A DC voltage imposed upon AC transmission lines would be problematic for the transformer windings. The prior solar activity of 1859 created current flows through the Telegraph system and the Earth connection over large distances.
Nominally, the soil differential for voltage does not exhibit a wide discrepancy between separated points such as to interfere with the grid electrical transmission. Under the influence of magnetic disturbances of solar origin, much greater voltage is induced in the soill which drives greater Telluric currents.
Gas discharge tubes, every couple of miles, should take care of that............
Today we have overload circuit breakers and fuses in the electrical system.
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except that the power generating stations will go down as their transformers melt.
Most transformers are shielded..................
Everything you ever wanted to know about what the sun is doing: Solarham.net
So, if it missed earth was it a doomsday event?
How could any event on the sun miss earth?
The Earth’s face is only a small dot on the face of the Sun.
The Sun has CME events all the time and they miss the Earth because the Earth isn’t in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some might never even be seen on the opposite side of the Sun................
I built my home on the farm in the early 1990’s when the price of wood and plywood had skyrocketed. So I stopped by the scrap yard and purchased a truckload of steel bar joist and steel I-beams from a warehouse that had been torn down, and a load of steel bridge decking.
With a lot of rebar and a few days welding, I formed out the first floor of my house 12 ft up in the air and poured 6 inches of concrete. The lower floor is a giant Faraday cage. About 2,000 square ft with rebar welded in a mesh pattern in the lower floor, 12 inch thick poured concrete walls with rebar, and rebar mesh and concrete wire mesh (with 300 ft of radiant water pipe sandwiched in the middle of the 6 inch concrete between the rebar mesh and the wire mesh for heat) in the ceiling. It’s in ground on 3 sides so it stays warm even without heat.
The rebar in the floor walls and ceiling are all welded together, as well as all the steel bar joist and I-beams. Took me several days just to weld all the crossing points.
I didn’t build a bomb shelter out of fear, but to save money as wood was too expensive at the time. As I recall, it was about 150 cubic yards of concrete, 5000 psi mix. Three tractor trailer loads of scrap steel I-beams, bar joist, bridge decking and rebar..
It was my first and hopefully the last overhead concrete pour I have ever done.
The irony is that I did not even know what a faraday cage was at the time. I did it just to save money...
I hope this does not hit earth as I just spent the weekend installing Windows 7 on my new SSD drive and moving all my files. Next thing you know POOF! all gone.
I guess I have better odds of it not happening then a Windows update that goes POOF! and destroys all my files.....
7?..............................
Windows 10 is one big mess and spies on you.
I have to use everyday for work.
I do, too. There’s no way around it........................
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