If anyone is interested in a more technical and in-depth review of energy release mechanism theories in the solar corona check out https://www.youtube.com/watch

If anyone is interested in a more technical and in-depth review of energy release mechanism theories in the solar corona check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1AFnL6VARI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1AFnL6VARI "Solar Flares - How the sun relaxes" at the harvard and smithsonian center for astrophysics colloquium. It goes into much more detail and explains much clearer the evidence for magnetohydrodynamic waves as the energy carrier and why it's probably not (exclusively or mostly) electron beams. tldr; doing the numbers, every single electron in the entire hemisphere of the corona above a flare site would have to beam down than return in order for it to work out. It's gotta be magnetohydrodynamic waves.