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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
The blast of x-rays travels at the speed of light, this is not CME.
There is no waring for x-ray induced ground effects. All we can do is react to it. By the time we see the flash the X-rays are already here and the blast of solar protons riding the magnetic connection between the earth and sun are a few minutes behind that.
The only way to get an early warning would be to use solar observation satellites that use quantum entanglement communication and that would only provide up to 7 minutes of warning.
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At lunch I realized my brain had been stuck in 'plasma-gear', and from wherever I was 'observing' an x-ray burst, that I was always 'looking back in time,' and the x-rays would already be wherever I was, observing them; and it violated the laws of physics to think that one could get 'ahead' of things, and send a 'warning,' at least as far as x-ray, gamma-ray, and such.
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The only thing I can think of, with respect to a x-ray-induced effects warning capability is, the USGS Geomagnetism Program which operates magnetotelluric monitoring stations that measure induced geoelectric fields which, depending on local igneous rock type conductance, can induce back EMF up a grounded wye-connected grid-scale transformers and 'electrocute' the windings. Lead times to replace these monster transformers can be up to 2-years! And they're so expensive, they don't buy spares just to have them lying around.
Right now, the strategy is to defeat the ground during a storm, losing the safety of the 'ground fault', and then restore it once the storm passes.