Like how you can fry your electronics if they’re plugged in when the power comes back on from an outage, why can’t we “unplug” everything so to speak?
In: Planetary Science
The damage isn’t done because something is turned on. Solar flare, or any EMP is just a massive burst of electromagnetic energy (obviously by its name). Some of those wavelengths of energy like microwaves and radiowaves can cause current to flow inside conductors the same way a wireless charger can charge your phone. The flow happens whether or not the device is on and the flow is powerful enough to damage sensitive electronics.
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