Posted on 05/03/2018 8:35:00 AM PDT by rktman
I was AF Tech Control and I really admired Navy Tech Controllers at, Stockton and Sunnyvale and overseas at the NAF and NSGA. Seaman Flowers was visiting our TCF one night after dropping off at the Comm Center. When I commented about it he pointed out that on shipboard ET's have to know their job and the other guys job too. That's why we got six months of tech school and the Navy got two years. I'll never forget how they cut the modules for Antennas and Waveguides from our Tech Control course just before I got there to Keesler.
That TACAMO sounds like it was the real war. My most interesting was the TCF in the United States Readiness Command building when they were still setting up RDJTF, what later became CENTCOM.
I just said the PSC (or whatever regulatory body applies) has the power (no pun intended) and authority to do just that. The consequences of inaction are too dire - or so we’re told.
In addition, the states and Feds have no problem spending money and forcing people and companies to comply when they see fit, as I’m sure you know. Something of this magnitude should be a no-brainer.
Therefore either we, as a nation, face a grave threat with some outside force to cripple the electric grid and set us back 100 years, or we do not.
If we are truly vulnerable, and something meaningful can be done about it, then there really are no excuses for standing idle.
This is why, though I take no pleasure in shooting guns, I have an “arsenal” of five, each for a specific use. And, not counting the .22, I’ve not put more than 50 rounds through all of them combined.
In that context, I believe “kV” is correct.
Volts/meter is a standard measurement of field strength.
I’m just showing the math, which no one, anywhere, ever... has bothered to publish.
Math's comforting when reality matters...
Per Wikipedia:
Other evidence and similar events
Ice cores containing thin nitrate-rich layers have been analysed to reconstruct a history of past solar storms predating reliable observations.
It is claimed that data from Greenland ice cores show evidence of individual solar-proton events, including the Carrington event.[21] More recent work by the ice core community shows that nitrate spikes are not a result of solar energetic particle events, and, indeed, no consistency is found in cores from Greenland and Antarctica, and nitrate events can be due to terrestrial events, such as burnings, so use of this technique is in doubt.
[22][23] Less severe storms have occurred in 1921 and 1960, when widespread radio disruption was reported. The March 1989 geomagnetic storm knocked out power across large sections of Quebec. On July 23, 2012 a "Carrington-class" solar superstorm (solar flare, coronal mass ejection, solar EMP) was observed; its trajectory missed Earth in orbit. Information about these observations was first shared publicly by NASA on April 28, 2014.[4][24]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
It is a very viable and dangerous threat. Taking the grid out can be done in several ways besides EMP. Each with disastrous results.
Send a copy of the book to each and every Federal, State and local politician. If enough have the balls to read it we might get some action. Newt Gingrich wrote an Afterward everyone should read.
I just searched Amazon and (shock and surprise), it’s not listed!
Hey, thank you for advising me to try again. This time, I got it! Thanks ; )
“The nuclear bomb EMP effect was confirmed by the 1962 Starfish Prime test
which was fired 250 miles above the Pacific and impacted more than 1,000 miles away.”
To a very limited affect. Not exactly the Internet’s claim of total destruction of all things electronic and electrical.
Thanks! Bookmarked it!
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The Carrington effect
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