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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 flare
by 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 agoThere 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 agoYes we can detect this, but any call to shut down the grid will be ignored.