Death Star: How Our Own Sun Could Destroy Human Civilization - The Daily Grail
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Despite popular misconceptions, the Sun is not a stable, unchanging, eternal, ball of fire in the sky. Indeed, from an astrophysical and geological perspective, the Sun is quite the opposite. Fueled by nuclear fusion reactions, it is unstable, continually seething and churning, in disequilibrium, discharging not only visible light, but also a large energy array across the electromagnetic spectrum, and belting out charged particles as well. While the Sun may have little hiccups from time to time, it can also […]

This article was written in 2012 by Boston U. geophysicist Robert M. Schoch. It’s no less true in any way today (although power companies are somewhat better prepared thanks to articles like this one - and they were nervous last week).

Auroras would be much easier to see if it this happened and the lights went out for months. Website:www.robertschoch.com

  • kalkulat@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    They don’t talk about it a lot, but. If it looks really bad, I suspect that what the grid operators will do is disconnect and shut down as much of it as possible and wait it out. Better to have no electricity for a week than for hundreds of transformers to be ruined …