Overview<\/b><\/p>\n
A Coronal Mass Ejection\u00a0 (CME)\u00a0 happens when a solar storm or sunspot explodes and blows solar material out into space.\u00a0 Some times these eruptions are pointed at the earth.\u00a0 These protons can interact with out ionosphere to disrupt the geomagnetic fields, thus producing current in electrical wires.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The disruptions can also impact satellites and radio communications.<\/p>\n
The effects of the resulting disruption in our geomagnetic field (geostorm) would be immediate.\u00a0 With in the same moment the power grid, vehicles that are reliant on micro chips, computers, the internet, gas pumps, sewer treatment facilities,\u00a0 municipal water supplies,\u00a0 farming equipment, would all go off line.<\/p>\n
Due to the fact that replacements parts can be shipped when the trucks, trains, and airplanes are also broken, and the fact that there is a 1-2 year lead time on certain components of our electrical grid, we would be looking at a multi-year event should this ever happen.<\/p>\n
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History (Has this happened before?)<\/b><\/p>\n
On somewhere around the 1 or 2\u00a0 of\u00a0 September 1859, a giant G5 (the highest class of geo storm) was caused by a massive CME.\u00a0\u00a0 The resulting Geostorm cause the Arora borealis to be observed as for south as Hawaii.\u00a0 Telegraph operators where shocked and in some cases the charge that telegraph wires produced caused fires.\u00a0 This of course\u00a0 all happened before our modern day electronics which would be fired by a similar event.<\/p>\n
In 2012 we almost had a repeat Carrington level event. Thankfully this solar storm was not aimed at the earth, had it been, we would have been looking at an estimated US$600\u00a0billion\u00a0 to $2.6\u00a0trillion in damages\u00a0 and it would have taken an estimated 4- 10 years to recover.<\/p>\n
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What can be done:<\/b><\/p>\n
Prepare to live life with out electricity, cars or modern communication technology.\u00a0\u00a0 Use a Faraday cage to protect electronic equipment you might want to use post CME and Resaulting GEO Storm.\u00a0 Vote for and advocate for resilience in our power grid, transportation, and other vulnerable sectors.<\/p>\n
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Reference:<\/b><\/p>\n
https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carrington_Event<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_storm_of_2012<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/scijinks.gov\/what-was-the-carrington-event\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overview A Coronal Mass Ejection\u00a0 (CME)\u00a0 happens when a solar storm or sunspot explodes and blows solar material out into space.\u00a0 Some times these eruptions are pointed at the earth.\u00a0 … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-threats","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civilianintel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civilianintel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civilianintel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civilianintel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civilianintel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.civilianintel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.civilianintel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civilianintel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.civilianintel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civilianintel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.civilianintel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}