Articles in Power Grid
Emergency Light Bulb + Funny Video
I think this is a great product – it’s an LED bulb that has a battery inside, meaning you get 7 hours of light when your power is out – and it doubles as a …
USDA Behind Bird Killings / Hoekstra on EMP
This time last year there was a lot of talk about mass animal die-offs. These things happen from time to time, but the cluster of events made it newsworthy. Turns out some mass deaths can …
Michio Kaku: Power Grid at Risk in 2012
Michio Kaku on CNN last week, discussing what could happen in 2012. After he explains the peak of the solar cycle is coming up, he says:
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/12/27/exp-am-kaku-2012-science.cnn
Kaku:
“Every eleven years the Sun has a temper tantrum, throws …
Power Grid Down… What Happens to Money?
I’ll keep saying this until I am blue in the face: the US power grid is old and overloaded. A once-in-100-years solar storm can wreck it, and replacing all the transformers could take six months. …
When Fiction Becomes Reality
After 9/11 it was freaky to see that the tragedy had been predicted in popular culture, for example the debut episode of The Lone Gunmen. The most under-appreciated disaster scenario facing the USA and the …
GPS Disasters – More Than Just Navigation
As our world becomes more and more reliant on technology, so serious system collapses become more likely. I’ve been reading all about GPS jammers at New Scientist (the article is online at Gizmodo), and I …
Media Coverups
I guess mainstream media constantly makes decisions on what they should print/air. At one end of the scale they are a commercial enterprise, so they need to be popular, which means airing stories we want …
US Grid: Add Hackers To The List
The US power grid is extremely vulnerable, as are those in Europe. Primarily because they are old and over-burdened, but also because they are targets. If terrorists took out a number of transmission substations or …
New Precautions for Power Grids
According to NASA this week:
In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren’t …
70 American Ancestors / Exploding Transformers
By using nine different genes, and real genetic data (instead of estimates) new research suggests that just 70 people crossed the Bering Strait 12-14K years ago. This means that the wiping out of megafauna in North …
Solar Flare Update
The biggest solar flare in four years has sent charged particles hurtling towards Earth. ABC News says:
The radiation from Monday’s flare, known as a Coronal Mass Ejection, should pass the Earth today, Friday and Saturday. The …
Power Grid Disinformation??
If you have been following 2012 in the broadest sense, you’ll know that:
1) A Coronal Mass Ejection (from the Sun) could wipe out the electrical grid in the USA and potentialy elsewhere.
2) The next solar …
Sun v. Trains: Sun Wins
Most 2012 talk involving the Sun covers things like a cataclysmic breakdown of a power grid, and the effects of solar bursts in 1859 and 1989. Most people are unaware of these more subtle effects …
US Grid Concerns Continue
One of the leading voices in the 2012 Doomsday field, Lawrence Joseph, has focussed on the potential for the next solar cycle peak to wreak havoc on electrical grids worldwide, but especially in the USA. …
Space Storm Alert
It is midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is …
NASA: Impact of Solar Flare
NASA’s 132-page report, entitled Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts, paints a pretty grim picture of the damage that could occur in the USA (and presumably elsewhere in the world) due …
