A Simpler Explanation Of The Measurement Of ONE JOULE

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Let's do a followup shall we? I have ground through a dozen or so of these novels and NONE (0) recollect the year automobiles transited from points and condenser to electronic ignition changeover -- some were ten years + in error.

In a majority of cases, a saving grace was amateur radio HAM operators creating information networks. You know HAM don't you? The people with 50' antennas. Yet wristwatches stopped, all power grids went down and EMP seemed to grow in intensity to the point where it defeats shunt reclosers, you know the devices that shut down power for a few seconds when a million volt lightning strike contacts power transmission lines.

The final straw to my reading occurred a week or so ago when amidst all the other preposterous allegations, a pilot in a seaplane that somehow survived a CME could not clear 10,000 feet altitude because of lack of oxygen. Everyone would lose consciousness and pass out and the plane would crash -- about 20% into the novel -- close book, hit delete.

If you are going to quote occurances at the Quebec transmission failure -- save your fingers. The crash occurred at the line intertie station when horribly obsolete solid state hydraulic auto relay closers failed to function and grid overload cascaded power station wind down to 0%

Mex, Chrysler was the first to switch to electronic ignition in all of their vehicles for the 1973 model year. General Motors and Ford retained breaker point ignition until the end of the 1974 production run