Posted on 05/10/2024 11:43:56 AM PDT by week 71
Earth could suffer the worst solar storm in 165 years as six streams of plasma that erupted from the sun this week are set to make crash into our atmosphere tonight.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revealed Friday that the worst-case scenario would be what happened during the 1859 Carrington event, which set telegraph stations on fire, cutting communications worldwide.
In our modern-day society a geomagnetic storm - a major disturbance of Earth's magnetosphere- of that magnitude would cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts and damage to critical infrastructure.
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I’m going to put my hair in rollers—I’m due for a perm. Better hold ’em with plastic clips instead of metal bobby pins, tho.
“There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. … What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.”
What are GICs? Freshman physics 101: When a magnetic field swings back and forth, electricity flows through conductors in the area. It’s called “magnetic induction.” Geomagnetic storms do this to Earth itself. The rock and soil of our planet can conduct electricity. So when a CME rattles Earth’s magnetic field, currents flow through the soil beneath our feet.Québec is especially vulnerable. The province sits on an expanse of Precambrian igneous rock that does a poor job conducting electricity. When the March 13th CME arrived, storm currents found a more attractive path in the high-voltage transmission lines of Hydro-Québec. Unusual frequencies (harmonics) began to flow through the lines, transformers overheated and circuit breakers tripped.
A few years ago my cold water pipe from the street failed and I had to have it replaced with PEX. I immediately called an electrician to sink some grounding rods to meet code and an arrestor on the power feed into the house. I feel sorry for people that have only a cold water pipe ground and replace that with plastic that leaves grounding to chance. The electrician even thought to put a jumper at the water heater between the cold and hot copper pipes before I could ask him to do it.
Sparks fly when hookers testify against presidents and prosecutors shuffle evidence.
Even the sun notices.
Think of all those emails that prove shenanigans that will be lost now...
But most everything is powered by power lines that are strung on poles for miles and miles. That is how most of the damage would occur. Thinks hooked to the power grid. That includes cell towers. Cable amplifiers. Home and business electronics, and on and on.
With proper grounding there shouldn’t be a problem for anyone.
I guess firing up my E-Cat Cold Fusion generator will not save me or keep my internet connection up ............. poof!
I even put grounding rods in when I run a power line to a hot tub junction box, garage, shed or barn. They are a pain to drive into the ground, but worth it.
Exactly right.
Beau Biden died at his telegraph key during the Carrington Event.
would cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts and damage to critical infrastructure.
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA!
I built my home in the 1990’s and used poured concrete with a welded faraday cage in the concrete as protection cage. Even poured my first floor 12 ft up with rebar, mesh and steel bar joist with 6 inches of concrete. Took me two days just to weld the rebar crossing joints for the Faraday cage. It was my first overhead poor and at 2000 square feet, I could feel it wobble when I ran the power trowel. If it would have collapsed it would have killed me.
The basement walls are 12 inches thick, 12 ft high , in ground, with rebar on the snap ties welded to vertical rebar that is welded to the floor rebar cage.
I had my vision of the coming solar storms in the early 1990’s and built my house on the farm accordingly.
Maybe it will shut down all the electric cars…..
I was looking at the Sun in my scope, and I have never seen so many sunspots at once. Amazing.
Could this be the same type of storm that forced cannibals to eat Uncle Boozie?
Grounding does nothing to protect equipment from damaging power surges of the type that would occur in Carrington Event.
Only electronic devices designed to clamp over voltage and interrupt power to a device could help with that.
I remember the 1989 event. I’m in Northern Illinois, and before it was even completely dark, we could see the Aurora, glowing red. It was totally unreal….
Sound like you have a bunker!
That would be awesome.
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