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I have two pieces of evidence for you to consider. First in the Carrington event, telegraph wires glowed red in some places in the north. In the 1800s wires wer
by ohiovr 5y ago
I have two pieces of evidence for you to consider. First in the Carrington event, telegraph wires glowed red in some places in the north. In the 1800s wires were not in buildings, they were usually routed through windows in the operator rooms so no harm come to those buildings. Building wiring came decades later. As you may know a CME is long wave radiation and would normally only affect very long wires and potentially not as harmful to household length wire.
The second piece of the puzzle is starfish prime, which was entirely unexpected. It caused transformers hundreds of miles away to burn up and of course satellites to cease to transmit near the area of the blast. Scientists are clever and they could find simple ways to greatly amplify the effect. The discussion about grids going down is good enough to get people to talk. But there is more to the story than what they led us to believe.
If you were to take a high yield weapon and encase it in something like high density polystyrene it has a high hydrogen to carbon ratio making it's ions faster. Protons are many times more massive than electrons so electrons will be stripped off very quickly and travel very far leaving two very large opposite charge bodies flowing at relativistic speeds above the victim civilization. Bare charges are notoriously hard to keep together and they expand very quickly in all directions. This causes a great deal of current above us from the negative charges and the positive charges. A single coulomb is a massive amount of charge to try to keep together. If you had a single coulomb bound and then released, the explosive effect would be enormous.
Amplifying the effect with tons of this material means hundreds of terajoules of energy converted directly into electrical current which is a very fast moving wave, much much faster than a cme. This means that it will affect short wires even only a few feet long.
There is not just one of these weapons but dozens or hundreds. With a blanket dispersal it would affect huge areas.
Unlike conventional nuclear war thinking where blast effects are considered, this tactic is based on fire damage. The result is the destruction of a civilization with moderate amounts of nuclear fallout.
I really hope these fears of mine are unfounded but electricity is not easy to argue with. When man decided to apply its knowledge of nuclear energy into weapons research it took upon it's mortal hands instruments of it's own annihilation. Please read Rev 6. And Rev 17-18. For a bonus read Dan 5. Then you will know what to do when the time comes. Peace be to you and may your flight to safety be sure.