[Milsurplus] Coronal Mass Ejection

[Bob Camp]

Hi

This is what I was suggesting earlier. 

Once you get down to the "lightning protection works” level, you are in the area of speculation in terms of what the outcome would be. Impact on a large scale - sure. End of the world as we know it - probably not. Big trouble for this specific power grid (but not that one or that one) sure. Lots of business for the pole mount fuse boys - yup. 

Bob

On Aug 1, 2014, at 11:56 AM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:

> All this is starting to sound a lot like how the world was going to come to an end in the year 2000, anyone else remember the great Y2K catastrophe?
> 
> Among other things I work in radio and television broadcasting where we have very large towers that are routinely struck by lightning during almost every storm. The transients of the lightning pulse thru the tower to the ground system will usually result in a magnetic pulse strong enough to magnetize CRT displays to the point of having to be degaussed and occasionally cause issues with our connections to the utilities but with good design and better grounding we regularly survive direct lighting strikes and the EMP pulses associated with them just as a matter of business. Can see where large open systems like the power grid is at risk to large scale events but that same system is always under attack by mother nature and is way more robust than people think it is.
> 
> Ray F
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