Recent content by Jeem

This post serves as a follow-up to the thread "Solar flares & CMEs: Serious threat?" Given the above and what was said in the other thread, my question is as follows: What preparations, if any, can I make in order to survive 700 potential nuclear meltdowns and avoid coming into contact with...

Exactly right. Also, consider the following: From a popsci.com article: From a globalpost.com article: The cost of having to preemptively shut down the power grid would far exceed the cost of implementing the Solar Shield Bill. I don't even think that the power grid operators would...

I just had a thought: in a worst case scenario, grid operators could manually disconnect the transformers from the grid (by cutting the wires and cables, or maybe there's another way) and use a faraday shield to protect them from geomagnetically induced currents. I presume that fixing the...

Thanks for the link Chronos. Good news for Finland and Quebec:

Thanks for this important information, Dotini. Additionally, as I just read in http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/a-perfect-storm-of-planetary-proportions/0: And, according to another article, "there is a one in eight chance the Earth will experience a massive solar storm within...

Thanks for your responses. I read the article you linked to Chronos as well as a couple of others on the same topic and, from what I understand, it appears that only coronal mass ejections are expected to pose a threat to the power grid, not solar flares, nor solar proton events (Someone please...

Hi, can anyone confirm or disconfirm that the information below accurate, in particular the text that I bolded? Much appreciated.