"Verstaldin" wrote:

http://dsc.discovery.com/

They had a segment called "Solar Storm" that I found very interesting. If you get a chance to see it, take a gander s.


I found it to be pretty lame, actually. The only things worth hearing
were the interview snippets between the dramatization. It would have
been interesting to hear about that flare a couple years back and what
its impact would have been had it hit directly.

I'd be very surprised if such a scenereo could possibly play out --
the worst case I could see happening is breakers across the grid being
tripped or damaged and maybe -- maybe a national/continental black
start being needed. That'd be bad enough but it wouldn't be months
long. A week, perhaps, to get every corner of the country up, but
major metro areas within a couple days.


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Eric F. Richards

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