Good point about people confusing geomagnetic storms and flare ionizing light. To add to the last point about a CME that knocks out the power grid, I heard a

Good point about people confusing geomagnetic storms and flare ionizing light. To add to the last point about a CME that knocks out the power grid, I heard a presentation while I worked 2 summers ago at the frontier development lab, (https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/fdl-2017/ https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/fdl-2017/). I was on the solar-terrestrial interactions team. One of the points in the presentation is that there are only one or two companies in the world that makes these transformers and there aren't a lot of these transformers just siting around waiting for a Carrington level event. One of our goals for the summer was to use a LSTM neural network to forecast what would happen and possibly give warning when a CME slams into the earth. We could forecast a little bit into the future using geomag data. One of the subgoals of this work was to bring awareness and potentially help warn parties involved with the world's infrastructure. A key point out of this is that there are dedicated researchers in both the public and private sectors that study sun. They are busily trying to understand how the sun works and help create systems that help warn satellite and power grid operators. Two presentations from that year worth taking a look at might be of interest. Solar-Storm Prediction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T_lHUwxTes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T_lHUwxTes Solar-Terrestrial Interactions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5QQnZLjSBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5QQnZLjSBE Applications for this year's FDL summer program can be found at. https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/apply/ https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/apply/