Re: Solar storm watch
About electrical power grid. I have read many times people saying the electrical power can come down after an EMP. It happened in 89 in Quebec and what happenned is the electronic protection of the power line have triggered, because these electronic device protection were not shielded against EMP.
An EMP will not affect power transformer, but it's electronic protection. So, it is not a big problem. Nowadays, companies like "Schweitzer" are building their intelligent protective line relay shielded against such wave. All caved in a metal box, a bit like your computer. EMP bounce on metal and are absorbed by other material making them to heat because of the high frequencies.
Now, If ever a wave with the magnitude and frequencies high enough to make the huge coils of a power transformer to heat and burn, we will have nothing to worry anymore, because our "electronic device", the mind, will be melt down.
Namaste, Steven
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