Re: EMP blast - what would happen really?

w_tom wrote:
Sjouke Burry wrote:

Wat would you think happens if 10000+ volts is induced
in every meter of wire? Suddenly like with lightning,
every computer,tv etc being blitzed, power lines evaporating,
and all technical installations going to their last reward.


Well, I just zapped a door handle with 18,000 volts. Not even a mark
on the door handle. Somehow you are confusing volts with energy.
There is very little relationship. How often do you blow your hand off
due to static electric discharge? Voltage without other parameters
tells us nothing - but can be used to hype junk science claims on the
naive and those who blindly believe Rush Limbaugh.

Having asked questions such as why, then that 10000+ volts induced
one meter of wire means nothing. I discharged 18,000 volts in only
0.003 meters - much more intense electric field - and I am still here
to talk about it.

No, I was talking about the voltage in wires(low resistance,high current,
like in lightning(for a few miles of wire,millions of volts at currents
of thousands of amps).
The area that explosion hits, is much bigger than your thundercloud,
and voltage and current is much worse.
Its the voltage and the available current together causing damage.
The sparks you talk about have only minute currents behind them.
Another thing which is worse, is that events take 10 to 100 times
as long as a lightning strike,so try to imagine lightning hitting
everywhere at the same time,at energy levels a thousend times.
Believe me , you want to be somewhere else,by preference at the
other side of the planet.
As somebody else said,at Hawaii the USA blew the powergrid,
from hundreds of miles or more away,and that was not intended to
happen,so conditions for EMP shock were not optimal.
.

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