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Telegraph cables were glowing in the Carrington Event decades before household wiring. Imagine house wiring glowing like those telegraph cables.
by ohiovr 6y ago
Telegraph cables were glowing in the Carrington Event decades before household wiring. Imagine house wiring glowing like those telegraph cables.
- hinoki 6y agoWikipedia link [0], which describes telegraph operators getting shocked. I don’t think horse wires would be a problem, since I think the induced current depends on the change in flux, which needs 100s of km to get large enough. Our high voltage power distribution network though... could make 2003 [1] look like a cookout in the park. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003