Eli5 how could an electromagnetic impulse, say from the sun for example, disable a whole power grid?
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Power plants make electricity by quickly moving wires through a magnetic field (or the field through the coils).
Long distance transmission lines are very long wires, and solar storm/EMP is a very big moving magnetic field.
Thus, it creates electricity in places that can’t handle (that form/amount of) it.
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