[Milsurplus] Coronal Mass Ejection

[Bob Camp]

Hi

I think that somebody needs to actually take a look at the data. The press tends to go a bit silly about this sort of thing. Unless it’s the equivalent of a lightning strike to your house, it’s not going to be anywhere near as bad as they are suggesting. Most of our mil gear (tube or solid state) is in the “survive” category for a fairly wide range of events. Except for truly unusual gear, it’s not got anything overly fancy protecting it. I doubt the cited event would deliver enough energy to knock out a cell tower that survives lighting hits on a regular basis ….

Bob

On Jul 31, 2014, at 8:22 PM, David I. Emery <die at dieconsulting.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 06:48:44PM -0400, Peter Gottlieb wrote:
>> Have you seen the recent articles about the near miss CME a couple of years 
>> ago?
>> 
>> Discussion about how we'd lose the power grid and internet.
> 
> 	I can believe parts of the power grid, but most comms
> infrastructure is fiber... and I'd really be surprised that peering
> points and major server facilities are vulnerable to the sort of
> EMP that a CME would cause.   And most have pretty good backup
> diesel or gas turbine power...
> 
> 
> 	Yes a lot of last mile stuff might be out, but the core
> net and clouds not so much...
> 
> 	Cell nets I'd suppose depends on the specific infrastructure,
> but most of it does not seem that vulnerable to me...
> 
> 	High altitude nuclear EMP is fairly steep rise time, I believe
> CME EMP would be mostly large rather LF magnetic field jumping... 
> 
> 
>> Those green radios, backed by solar charging, are looking very attractive 
>> about now.
> 
> 	Most any radio would help... except for satcom stuff... which
> might not survive...
> 
> 
> -- 
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