It's caused by volcanos in your nose.

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"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
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"Bart Senior" .@. wrote in message ...
They have an electro-magnetic effect, cause power
outages by inducing over-current situations.

Movement of the ionosphere, as well as currents within, which can be
caused
by solar ejections and other things (induced EMP), induces currents into
powerlines. These currents induced into powerlines cause the cores of
transformers to saturate and greatly increase the third harmonic of the 60
Hz waveform. This third harmonic changes the waveform from a sinusoid to a
non- montonic rounded spike whose total voltage component is greater than
the 60 Hz, which causes overloads in the transmission system.

If the sun spewed a steady stream of particles there would be little or no
induced currents as, from Gauss's Law, it is the time change in flux
density
that causes the time rate change of current in a closed conducting loop.
The
change in flux due to the earth's rotation through the particle stream may
induce currents, but not to the scale of a moving ionosphere.

Are the currents induced on the power lines as result of magnetic or
electric induction? Properly laid out powerlines reverse the twin lead
periodically (as in twisted pairs) to decrease the magnetic induction.
The
lines are generally laid out orthognal to the electric field of the earth.
Particles would have to pass between the power lines or strike them (in an
overwhelming majority of one polarity) to induce blackouts. I think it's
all
caused by hair stylists.