June 3rd 12, 07:20 PM
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Hopefully not off topic
Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 17:03:12 -0000, wrote:
Solar flare effects at ground level are magnetic effects.
Thanks. There's an all too common misconception that the engergetic
charged particles produced by solar flares, solar storms, solar wind,
CME's, etc somehow land on the power lines, which then appears as a DC
voltage on the lines. That's not how it works at ground level. This
explains it better than I could:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetically_induced_current
I can almost guarantee our babbling Polish idiot believes that solar
produced particles make it through the atmosphere, which they do not.
All that energetic crap from space winds up being trapped by the air in the
upper atmosphere, ionizing the air from about 85 km to 600 km in altitude,
which is why the ionosphere exists.
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