Solar Shield--Protecting the North American Power Grid - NASA Science

[polaris93]

Oct. 26, 2010: Every hundred years or so, a solar storm comes along so potent it fills the skies of Earth with blood-red auroras, makes compass needles point in the wrong direction, and sends electric currents coursing through the planet's topsoil. The most famous such storm, the Carrington Event of 1859, actually shocked telegraph operators and

Comments

[brezhnev]

Or, we could start burying the power lines like we should have been doing already. Am deutschen Wesen soll die Welt genesen...

[polaris93]

Yes. Hardening the Grid should be our # 1 priority right now, for a whole bunch of reasons.