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Is it possible to protect your Solar System against EMP?

Hauls Assington

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Do solar panels survive? Charge controller? Batteries? Inverter?

We are probably doomed by fallout from exploded nuclear power plants anyway in the case of emp, but do we have any EMP experts in the house?
 
 
They also have a webpage about cyberattacks, but it's just grid failure scaremongering... Waters down their other claims to be talking about things that they're clearly not experts on--it's a red flag that they're playing fast and loose with the truth in other areas possibly.

 
They also have a webpage about cyberattacks, but it's just grid failure scaremongering... Waters down their other claims to be talking about things that they're clearly not experts on--it's a red flag that they're playing fast and loose with the truth in other areas possibly.


Is the thinking when your servers are in China, you're not worried about a cyber attack on North America? :p
 
Do solar panels survive? Charge controller? Batteries? Inverter?

We are probably doomed by fallout from exploded nuclear power plants anyway in the case of emp, but do we have any EMP experts in the house?
What are you worried about. If the ballon goes up the last thing you’ll be worried about is solar panels.
 
Is the thinking when your servers are in China, you're not worried about a cyber attack on North America? :p
That's hilarious. Exactly the kind of blind spots I'm referring to, they don't even need to launch an EMP to brick your inverter if they still control software libraries that downstream vendors use to build your firmware.

A post on software supply chain security and how they implement code signing and who is developing their stack would have been a lot more convincing.
 
I think people will have more to worry about than whether or not their inverter/charger survives. That said, I am a firm believer in backups/redundancy.
For the amounts of money most of us are spending, offline spares is the correct answer because it's also going to help you address interruptions caused by other types of hardware failures as long as you're there to install them.
 
A nuclear power plant will not create an EMP. Nuclear plants need water cooling which requires power. A natural or man-made EMP could eventually impact the cooling of commercial nuclear plants. Any explosion would probably be hydrogen gas with potential nuclear fallout in a wide area similar to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
 
That is what I am saying, if there is a huge EMP, the nuclear power plants will eventually all fukushima, and there would be a hideous amout of radiation everywhere. Their cooling systems would fail.
 
Well a EMP attack is similar to a high class solar flare so it depends on the amount of magnetic radiation the best shield is a lead unless you want to construct a Faraday cage and can be smart but hard to do post build.
 
C.M.E. blast would be the most destructive, but easily recovered from with spares in storage.
Depending on how long the blast lasts, seconds to hours to days...
 
C.M.E. blast would be the most destructive, but easily recovered from with spares in storage.
Depending on how long the blast lasts, seconds to hours to days...
We don't have any spares for the big transformers and it takes 2 years to build one.

Also, CME would not be as bad as an EMP. CME only destroys things connected to the grid, whereas an EMP not only destroys things connected to the grid, it will also destroy things that are not connected to the grid.

After a CME, your generator will still work, your car will still work, your laptop will still work, tractors, utility vehicles, and everything else will still work. But an EMP will take out almost everything with a chip. Some cars will survive due to the natural shielding of their computer systems from the vehicle's ignition system, but most other electronics will be fried, connected to the grid or not.
 
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