Sunday, June 23, 2013

Sun Starts Summer with a Blast

An M2 coronal mass ejection blasted toward earth at 1,350 mph and didn't cause any problems.
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The insurance industry recently published a study that modeled the effects of large solar storms on the US power grid and estimates 20 to 40 million people could be without power for weeks to months after an event similar to one that happened in 1859.
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