| As to effects- an older model Toyota was known to be so sensitive as to take a squat if someone keyed up a medium warm 2 meter rig behind it at a stoplight, I have seen vehicles with lots of electronics set next to a lightning strike and everything will still work. I personally had a hit on my 12 foot dish which took out the rear speakers and amp for the home theater but the front channel worked perfectly.
Yep, mechanical diesels should still run as long as there's fuel, and the starter shouldn't be a problem, thankfully, cause push starting one is not fun. If it ever happens I would bet that it would be very interesting what survives and what doesn't. As for vehicles if there's a major event where would you go....? and where would you find fuel?
Power plants will probably not lose transformers as much as fire and feed controls. Anything with heavy copper has a good chance of survival because they are designed for switching spikes and lightning to begin with.
Any metal box will have a shielding effect, a faraday cage is designed to attenuate also, but you really can't do that for unknown so shielding is better- and more readily available.
Just because a vehicle is older doesn't mean that it won't have an aftermarket ignition module installed. The coil and points should not have a problem but the capacitor could... |