- Not now Carrington Event
- Sunspot 4366 is a tightly grouped set of sunspots that has already ejected 3 X-class flares, fortunately not toward Earth. However, it is slowing rotating to point at the earth. It is possible we could have something similar to the Carrington Event (1859). Yikes! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carring...
- On the bright side, it will shut down X.
- This Lloyds of London report estimates 20-40m Americans at risk of prolonged (16 days - 2 years) power outages, costing up to $2.6trn to fix. It was written 13 years ago, when we were far less dependent on the power grid (and arguably better placed to fix it). assets.lloyds.com/assets/pdf-s...
- But X is still offline, right? Every charged particle cloud has a silver lining.
