Maybe the guys wearing tin hats have something after all s. The size of such a CME would have to be really tremendous and the power in it. It likely would not do anybody's equipment any good, and if it were that energetic, it would not make any difference if it were on or off to my way of thinking. I can see if a truly enormous overload were already in progress when the "storm" hit like the hottest day of the summer), transformers could be damaged, but what power company would not have more transformers ? Satellites for sure would be toast and that could take a very long time to replace, and th defense department would have a major problem.

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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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