How Prepared Are We For A Carrington Level Solar Storm?
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Published 2020-07-18
Space weather and solar storms pose an increasing threat to our modern technological world but what are we doing about it.
In this video, we look at what we have found out about how the coronal mass ejections affect not only our tech but the earth itself and how we can use the latest data from solar observatories and geoelectrical mapping to mitigate even a Carrington level event in the future.
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All Comments (21)
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Respect to the cameraman for taking all these close shots of the sun, despite all the heat and solar winds.
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Pretty much any question beginning with "are we ready for", the answer is a resounding hell no!
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As someone who works in the hydroelectric industry, I can tell you right now that we are NOT prepared. At all. The electrical grid is so fragile, it may as well be made of cut glass.
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I'm confident that our big power companies and grid operators in the US will be investing whatever is necessary to prepare for a Carrington-level event. One good example of how they plan ahead is the recent cold-weather event in Texas and how well the grid was prepared for that. Ummm, errrrr, ..... never mind.
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Better get cracking, 2020 ain’t over yet.
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Note to self: when I see an aurora here in Germany we're in trouble.
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Earth : Struggling with Corona Sun's Corona : You ain't seen nothing yet
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So you're tellin' me, a Carrington level solar storm would mean no more double ads on Youtube? 🤔 I'm a glass half full kind of guy! 🤣🤣🤣
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Based on all the places I have worked and all the people I have worked with, we are not prepared and it will be a matter of how competent we are at dealing with the aftermath.
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A CME is all I need for a bingo on my 2020 Bingo card... never wanted to lose this much in my life
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I really like your teaching. You’re engaging, eloquent and you’re descriptive nature keeps us wanting more.
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Im certain that i have learned more from this channel than all of grade school and college. Love it
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Humanity: "We have the technology to conquer nature itse-" SLAP Universe: "Sit down."
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I’m calling it: Curios Droid is now the only British spiritual successor to Horizon and QED still broadcasting. Terrestrial UK television science programming is all but dead now.
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When the Sun sneezes heavily towards us, could you say the Earth gets a bad case of corona..?
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One hits this weekend
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I can remember the 1989 event.....I live 30 Km south of Byron Bay on the North Coast of NSW...and the sky to the south was a bright red colour...I thought it was cane fires, but when I went out, there were none, just thes red glow in the sky......looked unreal
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I could listen to Paul talk all day long. I have a large interest in physics and find this page so informative and interesting. The way he puts very complicated subjects into layman’s terms is absolutely fantastic.
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I seriously think that, with how important electricity is, protection from CMEs should have the highest possible priority all around the globe!
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If the Earth's magnetosphere continues to weaken, we wont need to take a hit from a Carrington level event to lose our electrical grid.
