Posted on 01/21/2012 2:52:28 PM PST by annie laurie
Auroras may dazzle more people than usual this weekend as Earth receives a glancing blow from an enormous solar outburst that erupted on Jan. 19.
The outburst, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), was detected by sun-watching satellites.
Researchers at the University of Alaska's Geophysical Institute predict that auroras should be visible from Seattle, Des Moines, Chicago, and Cleveland, to Boston and Halifax, Nova Scotia Saturday and Sunday nights, weather permitting.
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Space Weather Center forecasters say they expect the encounter to generate a weak geomagnetic disturbance beginning around 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time Sunday Jan. 22 and lasting through Jan. 23. It could trigger weak fluctuations in electricity flowing through the long-distance transmissions lines and have a minor effect on satellites.
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That is the insured/value for a 10kw system. $20k rebate from utility paid for half of it. 30% fed tax credit will reimburse another 10k. It saves me $150 a month.
Mel Brooks is appropriate anywhere, weddings, funerals, elections, hangings, threads on extrasolar planets... anywhere.
And Harv Korman could make me laugh by reading the phone book (Do we still have those?)
/johnny
They are pretty bullet-proof if designed correctly.
/johnny
Maybe they should put the sun on ritalin or maybe call the police to use a taser on it.
yeah, sure.
Got a pair of Fronius IG5100 inverters due to differing panel pitches. 22 panels are at 12 deg due S, 22 at 26 deg. I am at 28.4 degrees N
They run about 4200w and 3800w output. Avg about 42 kw a day.
For information on Aurora and other atmospheric phenomena.
Not much activity yet.
Doing the math...after tax payer pay a portion and you safe $150 a month then you will break even in 22years...that’s if nothing goes wrong...do you own a Volt too?
“At current electric rates”
With out of pocket being $8k, payoff is 4 to 5 years. Sooner if rates go up.
Inverter warranties are 10 year.
Couple more links from bottom of yours;
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
About The SDO Mission
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/about.php
SDO: The Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first mission to be launched for NASA’s Living With a Star (LWS) Program, a program designed to understand the causes of solar variability and its impacts on Earth. SDO is designed to help us understand the Sun’s influence on Earth and Near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere on small scales of space and time and in many wavelengths simultaneously.
SDO’s goal is to understand, driving towards a predictive capability, the solar variations that influence life on Earth and humanity’s technological systems by determining
how the Sun’s magnetic field is generated and structured
how this stored magnetic energy is converted and released into the heliosphere and geospace in the form of solar wind, energetic particles, and variations in the solar irradiance.
Nope. They'll do just fine.
Normal everyday PV solar panels can take many times the usual max insolation without any damage at all. In fact there are some PV installations where they use Fresnel lenses to collect and concentrate the solar energy by a factor of 10 or more, to make the best use of the expensive solar cells. In that kind of use, the cells do tend to age quicker. But that's 10 times normal levels, continuously, for many years.
A relatively short burst like this should have no discernible effect at all.
Figures-totally clear skies all last week, now it’s overcast.
Maybe this is what pushed the ball left of the uprights in the Baltimore - New England game.
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