07-24-2014, 05:56 AM
Here's something that would change HELCO pretty quick. Two years ago Earth was missed by a plasma cloud by a few days. Does anyone know whether off grid systems would survive this type of electrical storm?
On July 23, 2012, the sun unleashed two massive clouds of plasma that barely missed a catastrophic encounter with the Earth’s atmosphere. These plasma clouds, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), comprised a solar storm thought to be the most powerful in at least 150 years.
“If it had hit, we would still be picking up the pieces,” physicist Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado tells NASA.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capi...years-ago/
On July 23, 2012, the sun unleashed two massive clouds of plasma that barely missed a catastrophic encounter with the Earth’s atmosphere. These plasma clouds, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), comprised a solar storm thought to be the most powerful in at least 150 years.
“If it had hit, we would still be picking up the pieces,” physicist Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado tells NASA.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capi...years-ago/
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