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Oh fuck I see it
Discussion
the only protection i can think of from this kind of discharge would be inside a faraday cage, and importantly, it can't be an earthed faraday cage, ideally it has a very strong insulator coating around the conductive material
a properly designed, heavy (like 2 feet thick) concrete bunker structure with a mesh of like 6" grid inside it that has been deliberately welded to become a complete conductive shell would probably be necessary to be able to survive this, and probably it would also help if the structure was spheroid or conical so if there is a huge discharge that passes through, it has minimal chance of going inside the cage
my idea of a prefab concrete dome bunker continues to escalate
the shape of the conductive mesh should also extend outwards and sideways to ensure it doesn't go through the centre, and probably ultimately you want it to just be a straight up sphere with heavy conductors in a classic cat-ball style cage, with weaker conductors in a fairly close mesh to keep charge from not going to the thick conductors
Unless everything around you melts in fire
well, if it's that much energy you be way too close to a low resistance section of the crust
i'm gonna start thinking about how that can be estimated
i'd guess that since in general thunderstorms are electrons coming down from clouds, that were seeded by those electrons negatively charging dust, that a historical map of lightning strikes would help avoid a likely patch where a giant zap could erupt suddenly after way too much energy comes from a CME
there's probably some kind of electrical resistance value that you can map to different soil types as well, and then from that make a heat map of potential lower resistance areas of the surface to avoid
is this related with Nikola Tesla's giant wireless tower?