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I heard on the radio that it’s number 4 on the UK government’s list of things to worry about. Sorry to be data free; it was an interesting factoid though.
by gorgoiler 6y ago
I heard on the radio that it’s number 4 on the UK government’s list of things to worry about.
Sorry to be data free; it was an interesting factoid though.
- polycaster 6y agoDo you happen to remember number 1 to 3?
- elihu 6y agoI'm going to take an uneducated wild guess that the others are nuclear war, climate change, and pandemics.
- Mvandenbergh 6y agoI don't know about ranking but: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/644968/UK_National_Risk_Register_2017.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... page 35 it is on the national risk register. Here is the preparedness strategy (from 2015): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/449593/BIS-15-457-space-weather-preparedness-strategy.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... The GB network tends to have relatively short lines and has used a GIC resistant transformer design since the 1990s so would probably only lose 1% or so of its transformers in a Carrington event. Three phase transformers with five limb cores are particularly vulnerable and have not been installed since 1997 on the GB grid.