TIL that in 2012 a large solar storm nearly missed Earth by a margin of nine days. If it hit, it could have caused damages to a cost of around $2.6 trillion.

garfaagel@sh.itjust.works · 2 years ago

TIL that in 2012 a large solar storm nearly missed Earth by a margin of nine days. If it hit, it could have caused damages to a cost of around $2.6 trillion.

SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 years ago

Would we? I remember reading Ted Koppel’s book Lights Out a few years ago, but I’d assume that utilities, grid operators, and governments have been making efforts to improve grid resilience

dave@feddit.uk · 2 years ago

I find your excess of faith disturbing…

SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 years ago

Haha it’s less an excess of faith- more like someone else gets paid to worry about it, so i’m not gonna stress myself out for free

Fubber Nuckin'@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Bold of you to assume they’re worrying about it.

LaSaucisseMasquee@jlai.lu · 2 years ago

Yeah that worked super well with Covid.

scarecrow365@reddthat.com · edit-2 2 years ago

laughs in Texas *

SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 years ago

God bless the Eastern Interconnection lol

Rhaedas@kbin.social · 2 years ago

Being proactive for risks that are small for the near term is expensive, and not very profitable for the shareholders.

itsprobablyfine@feddit.uk · 2 years ago

TIL that in 2012 a large solar storm nearly missed Earth by a margin of nine days. If it hit, it could have caused damages to a cost of around $2.6 trillion.

TIL that in 2012 a large solar storm nearly missed Earth by a margin of nine days. If it hit, it could have caused damages to a cost of around $2.6 trillion.

July 2012 solar storm - Wikipedia