Solar EMP only affects long wires and electronics connected to them. It won't affect individual cell phones, but it will knock out the cell towers. This means peer to peer would work as well as ad hoc wireless networks. Also, electronics in storage or still new and in boxes won't be affected. The big transformers in the power grid would be the biggest problem of all.
If its a Carrington it could be worse than that. The one we know about caused arcing and fires everywhere there was electrical equipment, scale this up to today and the fires that start would be beyond anyones control, they would be everywhere. It could even cause a global firestorm.
Nope. A solar EMP only hits the side of the earth facing the sun at the time. If Turkey was facing the sun, North and South America wouldn't be touched. Our effects would be economic, but not physical.
It hits the side of the earth that it hits. EPM's do not go straight ahead, they are long pulses that usually hit the side of the earth that is towards the direction of travel around the sun which rotates, and the earth is rotating as well.
But what about fires? They happened last time, nuclear winter anyone?
Solar EMP only affects long wires and electronics connected to them. It won't affect individual cell phones, but it will knock out the cell towers. This means peer to peer would work as well as ad hoc wireless networks. Also, electronics in storage or still new and in boxes won't be affected. The big transformers in the power grid would be the biggest problem of all.
If its a Carrington it could be worse than that. The one we know about caused arcing and fires everywhere there was electrical equipment, scale this up to today and the fires that start would be beyond anyones control, they would be everywhere. It could even cause a global firestorm.
Nope. A solar EMP only hits the side of the earth facing the sun at the time. If Turkey was facing the sun, North and South America wouldn't be touched. Our effects would be economic, but not physical.
It hits the side of the earth that it hits. EPM's do not go straight ahead, they are long pulses that usually hit the side of the earth that is towards the direction of travel around the sun which rotates, and the earth is rotating as well.
But what about fires? They happened last time, nuclear winter anyone?
They still hit only one side of the earth. All of Europe, Asia, and Africa could burn up, but the Americas wouldn't.
It could fry a lot of satellite comms too.
Only nuclear EMP does that.