Recent content by blazzano

From what I've heard, the main concern is the very large, extra high voltage transformers. It is possible to protect them from large surges of geomagnetically induced DC current, but most transformers don't have this protection, and there's no guarantee that the grid operators would take the...

Indeed. Lord Kelvin tried to estimate the age of the Earth by calculating how long it would take for it to cool from some primordial melted state to its current temperature (i.e. blackbody radiation etc.). He got a few different age ranges over the years, from the 10^8 range to the 10^7 range...

This thread illustrates the pitfall of a generally polite forum, attempting to deal with a passionate issue. You inevitably get people who push against the limits of the site's decorum, then (knowingly or unknowingly) try to hide behind the site's polite nature when their emotional posts get...