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GRID DISRUPTION: reports of RECENT non-storm related outages | |
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(OP) User ID: 1419213 United States06/09/2011 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | SCORE! good link, will take some delving: [link to vielmetti.typepad.com] Do you ever think as a hearse goes by, that you may be the next to die? do not capitulate, do not surrender, be proud your last breath is that of a defender. |
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(OP) User ID: 1419213 United States06/09/2011 10:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.nytimes.com] This Week's Solar Flare Illuminates the Grid's Vulnerability By PETER BEHR of ClimateWire Published: June 9, 2011 A massive burst of solar wind that erupted from the sun Tuesday is expected to deliver only a "glancing blow" to the Earth's vulnerable magnetic field, NASA officials said yesterday. But it will preview what some experts call a potentially existential threat to the power grids of the United States and other nations, and the populations that depend on them. ...potentially existential? as in, when the power fails, we'll all be reading kafka and/or staring at our belly buttons? Do you ever think as a hearse goes by, that you may be the next to die? do not capitulate, do not surrender, be proud your last breath is that of a defender. |
