solar emp and pacemakers

• by John G.
• 2013-01-18 10:01:12
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I finally have an answer from a scientific person concerning the upcoming solar storm predicted by NASA that could possibly fry the power grid. This person Jerry Emanuelson is an engineer and a scientific investigator. I checked his qualifications and feel confident of his answer. Lord knows I have been sending Biotronik this question several times over with no reply at all! Nice company to do business with when your life depends on it. Anyway here is what Jerry explained to me;

A solar EMP will not affect your pacemaker. The frequency components in solar EMP are much too low for solar storms to affect a pacemaker. Solar EMP only affects wires that are far longer than those in a pacemaker.

Nuclear EMP is another matter. I don't know of any tests that have been done on nuclear EMP and pacemakers in recent years. Some experiments were done with pacemakers implanted in monkeys more than two decades ago. At that time, simulated nuclear EMP caused failures some of the time, but not always. Of course, technology has changed quite a bit in the past two decades, so it is impossible to say with any certainty what the effects of nuclear EMP would be on current pacemakers.

With solar EMP, though, you have nothing to worry about.

Jerry Emanuelson
http://www.futurescience.com/emp.html

-- Original Message --
From: Gerretz
To: emp@futurescience.com
Sent: 2013-01-17 09:07 AM
Subject: emp and pacemakers

Hopefuly this will ease some minds, It certainly eased mine. No thanks to Biotronik!
Greatfull to be alive, John Gerretz, Hammonton NJ