Major Solar Event Could Devastate Power Grid
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Credit: Njaal Gubarndsen
Powerful solar storms are an imperfectly understood threat to the world's power grids, but one with the potential for economic damage so catastrophic that the estimated $100-200 million it would cost annually to deploy an operational space-weather warning system could be trivial by comparison. In a...
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