I thought the one last week was the strongest in 150 years.
I believe it was.
According to this, the one yesterday was bigger, though it’s not aimed at Earth.
In the past, the only people who ever seemed to pay attention to anything that could cause a “grid down” scenario were preppers, survivalists, some gun movement people falling into one or the other of the first two categories. IOW, people more or less on the right or right/populist side of things. Very much my tribe. But now it’s the other side hyping this, and they sound loopy, imho.
We never really hear about how much energy would be deposited into the elements of the grid that are so breathlessly discussed in the media. I have no idea, but how much additional current could be induced into a long-range transmision line? Would that even bother a system that operates at 500Kv? And even if things could get to damaging overcurrent levels, would it happen so fast that manual and automatic overcurrent protections in the transformers couldn’t kick in? An EMP, maybe I get it, but a CME?
Any high voltage system designers on the board who could shed any light?