Solar Superstorm

[NorthernRaider]

(7 February 2013, 18:48)Scythe13 Wrote: Solar storm could very well just pop the mechanism in the freezer. So using a system to charge it might be folly.

Best off working with what you know.


BOOM, solar storm screws all electrics in the home, generator...fried. Solar panels.....fried. Turbine...fried. Batteries....fried (I think, but not 100% sure on the batteries).

No its doesnt, its not an EMP its a huge surge in what is basically static electricty in the atmosphere that overwhelms the generation distribution grids, and EMP would send us back to the stone age but a CME is basically a sudden overload of the system from outerspace as happened in Ontario only 20 years ago. The CME sends charged particles down the poles which creates megawatts of static electricity, this finds the easiest way to earth usually pylons, this trips out all the generation systems and everything goes black. Once the power was restored the electrical equipment in the homes worked again. Roughly and EMP destroys everything but a CME blows all the fuses and circuit breakers in the system.

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And electro magnetic pulse is basically like getting a huge effing great magnet and wiping across the face of the plastic which demagnetises windings, deplarises circuit, causes short circuits which buggers micro processors etc, thats when stuff like Turbines, Gennies, PV panels etc get ruined.