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will solar panels survive solar flare or EMP????
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It is possible to survive an EMP with a working system. The worse EMP possible on earth is a lighting strike. Transmitters, cell towers and such get hit by lighting all the time and mostly survive. It all a matter of being able to bypass the surge energy to ground. A big CME is very different from an EMP. Where an EMP is a fast pulse (mostly RF energy), A big CME is a huge DC current. This DC current will saturate large power transformers and melt wiring both in the transformers and switchgear, and on the long lines. This will cause massive spikes in the AC power lines, but again, not as bad as a direct lighting strike. If your system is hardened enough to survive lighting, it will survive both EMP and CME events. A good link on lighting protection (it's all about the grounding) [ link to www.windsun.com] sry for stupid asking but a lighting strike is an inch wide and allways strikes at the highest spot with conductivity now a emp or cme fucks everything up. The "inch wide" comment means nothing. lighting is over 100,000,000 volts and thousands of amps, for about a microsecond. It acts like an RF energy pulse, meaning that it follows the lowest impedance path to ground, not necessarily the shortest distance, or highest point. Most of the damage from a lighting strike is from the EMP that this creates. A CME is more of a large DC current induced into long wiring, so the damage is different. The protection is the same, have a very good ground system, and make sure than any excess power goes into the ground.
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