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I put the quote about speeding up production etc from the parent article in quotes and then commented on it. I also posted a link to this paper https://www.gao

• lstodd 5y ago
  And I said it is impossible, not only from logistics perspective, as VLM did clearly show. > most importantly early warning tech to detect incoming solar flares and take transformers offline to protect them This is politically impossible. If one takes the entire grid offline, people suffer and lash out. If the grid is instead taken out by a solar flare, aliens, you name it - it's much easier to shift the blame.
  • olivermarks 5y ago
    There are plenty of space weather monitoring options available via satellite, telescopes etc monitoring the sun for a coronal ejection. We have several hours to prepare for them when they pass earth. 'The fastest Earth-directed CMEs can reach our planet in as little as 15-18 hours. Slower CMEs can take several days to arrive. They expand in size as they propagate away from the Sun and larger CMEs can reach a size comprising nearly a quarter of the space between Earth and the Sun by the time it reaches our planet'. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/coronal-mass-ejections https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/coronal-mass-ejections
    • lstodd 5y ago
      Yes we can detect this, but any call to shut down the grid will be ignored.