Government Agencies Warn of Solar Storms

I doubt we'll have the worst case scenario of massive shredding of the population due to a breakdown of basic services and utilities. However I do think that this won't be without some loss of life and very substantial repair bills (not just this particular warning but during the rest of the solar maximus)
 
sdhsbaseball said:
I'm sorry but you are wrong, the electrical system has DC ties in the midwest that isolates the west and east as well as DC ties that go from most major power providers like SOCO, TVA, LGEE etc... So if there was something like this and there were lines that were wiped out you can isolate the problem and it would not spread.
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Cool good to know. The information I had was not surprisingly flawed... Thanks History / Science Channel for that overly dramatic "You're all gonna die"' special based on a little science, a little reality, and alot of bullshit.
 
As long as my toilets keep working I'm cool. I would rather be out of power than not have plumbing.
 
fattypants said:
As long as my toilets keep working I'm cool. I would rather be out of power than not have plumbing.
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yes.. cas all pipes run downhill.. rofl.... city-wide power cuts.. yep.. ya gonna have problems with ya shitter too!! :eek:
 
CVNet1 said:
Cool good to know. The information I had was not surprisingly flawed... Thanks History / Science Channel for that overly dramatic "You're all gonna die"' special based on a little science, a little reality, and alot of bullshit.
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Yeah working in the field of power systems you learn so many things that today’s media is either blatantly wrong about and gives misinformation a good majority of the time. I think it’s the scare tactics they use to try and the population all riled up and worried over nothing. :(
 
CVNet1 said:
As I recall the biggest concern was that a unusually large coronal mass ejection would hit the earth around the same time our magnetic field was shifting polarity or just generally having a weak field. The ionizing particles hitting the atmosphere would alter electrical field lines in the earth magnetic field and induce a large Direct Current on our transcontinental high voltage lines that are made for AC power. The transformer equipment on either end of the high voltage lines would blowup or blowout or something like that when a large Direct Current was induced and transmitted across the wire lengths. This would also cascade into other areas of the electrical grid and cause widespread power failures because the electrical grids are all tied together and the equipment is made to handle AC rather than DC power, so it would not failsafe to prevent damage down the line. With the major transformers all blowing out at the same time, it would take a decade or more to replace them all (nobody has produced enough of these large scale transformers to replace every single one of them across the entire US power grid and production capacity is rather limitted and production time for new units its a few months.
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A large ejection can take out our electrical systems without the magnetic poles shifting. And you are right, it would take months or even years to replace the damaged transformers.
 
dadi38 said:
A large ejection can take out our electrical systems without the magnetic poles shifting. And you are right, it would take months or even years to replace the damaged transformers.
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Cool....at least I'll be able to find a real job. :p
 
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