How Solar Storms Affect Humans and Electronics on Earth

How Solar Storms Affect Humans and Electronics on Earth | WSJ Future of Everything

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8 ай бұрын

Power grids and much of our infrastructure are susceptible to solar storms that have a nearly 10% chance of happening per decade. Economists estimate a severe storm could cost billions, if not trillions, in damage. Solar storms often contain a few major components: solar flares, solar energetic particles and coronal mass ejections. These space weather events could knock out satellites as well.
WSJ explores how scientists and utilities operators spend time preparing and building new models to forecast solar storms to avoid worst-case scenarios.
Chapters:
0:00 Solar storms
1:06 Infrastructure risks
3:50 History of solar storms
5:33 Building defenses
#Space #Sun #WSJ

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@SolaceEasy 8 ай бұрын

I've been waiting and hoping! BTW, these events are not that rare, it's just rare that they point at the Earth, but they are happening all the time.

@starcrib 8 ай бұрын

The Carrington Event 🪼⚡️🌐⚡️🪼

@VictorAntares 8 ай бұрын

@05:10 this guy is excited?! man, no

@SERGIO-cr6uy 8 ай бұрын

Thanks WSJ, quite an interesting video to watch.

@zettaiEngineer 8 ай бұрын

Summary: Sun - Generates electromagnetic flux Earth - What the flux is going on

@laurateaho-white9654 8 ай бұрын

So whats the solution?

@streetbaby8026 8 ай бұрын

Science 🤗

@jstn616 8 ай бұрын

Hey Vsauce, Michael here.

@dr.memes0.1_incmemesindust39 6 ай бұрын

Okay solar stuff but how can we make money out of it? Like should we sell stocks or something

@mack-uv6gn 8 ай бұрын

Put the power lines and stations underground?

@worldwide846 8 ай бұрын

Isn't there enough space trash to protect us from the blasts

@vader92 8 ай бұрын

I wonder burying all the grids underground would protect it ?

@kennethadler7380 8 ай бұрын

Solar Power

@6233791 8 ай бұрын

Won’t someone think of the markets?!

@Red_Proton 8 ай бұрын

Protecting the grid requires air gapping its components. Simply shutting down the grid - "turning off" the power - isn’t enough. Transmission lines… well, they transmit. Telegraph lines didn’t have to be powered on to carry electrical current from the Carrington Event solar storm, they carried it regardless of any manmade electrical current because… they are transmission lines. Some places in the world are still working to piece things back together again after a disaster, and it’s taken this long despite having today’s full support of mass-production economy of scale, transportation and distribution logistics, and, last but not least, the uninterrupted operation of the electrical grid supporting all of it (both directly and indirectly). Recovery will become inconceivably more difficult, if not impossible, and generations long in time if only the USA is hit by a Carrington-level solar storm, which is impossible because that strong of a storm would effect the entire world. At that point, kiss recovery goodbye. It’s back to sticks and stones after the bullets run out.

@colekarrh9114 8 ай бұрын

I really think we should call solar Storms, solar pops

@LanguagesWithAndrew 8 ай бұрын

Sun farts.

@ericgeorge7874 8 ай бұрын

Hopefully we'll have enough warning to safely shutdown the grids until it passes.

@shadowbanned5164 8 ай бұрын

12 minutes from flare to arrival

@RebeccaSmith14 7 ай бұрын

Simply shutting down the grid, "turning off" the power isn’t enough

@josealejandrougaldefortane2215 Ай бұрын

Magneticly

@josealejandrougaldefortane2215 Ай бұрын

Spewing Geomagnetic Electromagnetic fields

@josealejandrougaldefortane2215 Ай бұрын

Forecasting Spacecraft Overheating

@michaeltrousdale2510 8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 but CEO makes how much.

@Waltaere 8 ай бұрын

🌞

@lc285 8 ай бұрын

Maybe tge sun isn't a bubble of gas, but a ball of electricity.

@Roger_Gadd 8 ай бұрын

Economist explains how a large meteorite wiping out all life on earth could stun world markets...

@andrewweaver2517 8 ай бұрын

WIDESPREAD PANIC!

@Waltaere 8 ай бұрын

WSJ 😃

@potatisthatsaabguy 8 ай бұрын

mass ejections😅

@cindyj5522 8 ай бұрын

Too bad these storms don't destroy the power of the weapons of war so that everyone has to just sit down on the ground and stop.

@CausticLemons7 8 ай бұрын

War started with fists, sticks, and rocks so I don't think shutting down power plants with end violence.

@freeloader69 8 ай бұрын

I like this media outlet when it isn’t being a blatantly biased political propaganda machine.

@SunnyAquamarine2 8 ай бұрын

When is that?

@maemilev 8 ай бұрын

Nonsense. Is like preparing san Francisco for an earthquake.

@brokencat2662 8 ай бұрын

uhm, just turn it off and on again.

@matthewbarry376 8 ай бұрын

Can't flick a switch when the connections are welded together

@brokencat2662 8 ай бұрын

@@matthewbarry376 just press the power button.

@RebeccaSmith14 7 ай бұрын

@brokencat2662 won't work

@J_Kbz 8 ай бұрын

they can talk about climate change and orchestrate agendas all they want, most of which are for selfish gain, but at the end of it all, it means nothing if they aren't also prepared for this.

@mclaren720 8 ай бұрын

Another KZfaq graduate who thinks they know it all after one 8 minute video lol

@J_Kbz 8 ай бұрын

@@mclaren720 another internet troll who thinks they have an opinion that is relevant in the grande scheme of anything

@geraltofrivian516 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, it would be so awful. If we did all this hard work and ended up with clean air and water and more efficient infrastructure. What a shame /s

@J_Kbz 8 ай бұрын

@@geraltofrivian516 because eliminating farting cows from the equation and implementing a worldwide social credit score based on carbon will give us so much more cleaner air, make us happy, and become more free to live and love one another.

@J_Kbz 8 ай бұрын

Good thing the Georgia Guidestones no longer exist, you know, where “all 500 million inhabitants of the earth live in perpetual balance with the earth”, but the other 7 billion are disregarded.

@Flieger5000 8 ай бұрын

When the Americans get bored, they start to invent ways the get worried about something.

@shadowbanned5164 8 ай бұрын

12 minutes is how long it would take to get to earth from the sun and you had better hope if it does happen it occurs during the night

@auro1986 8 ай бұрын

how? because wsj now points your attention to sun while elite make their storms

@frankkreyssig7626 8 ай бұрын

Back to the Stone Age again. Are you ready? It IS coming. This is just a precursor for the next solar micro nova that will induce the next extinction event.

@mattmettler1795 8 ай бұрын

Yabba dabba doo!!

@-dash 8 ай бұрын

Am I ready for the next extinction event? Uhh, how should one prepare for that?

@oneshothunter9877 8 ай бұрын

No stone age for me. I am fully armed. Avid and experienced Hunter, fisher. Non electrical transportation available. Sled dogs. :) Got a big boat with old, but really fine non-electric diesel engine. My dogs would warn me of zombie attacks, too. I'm ready. Bring it on, sun. Best wishes to you all out there.

@10khz97 8 ай бұрын

@@oneshothunter9877good, you have everything i need.

@alexandrugheorghe5610 8 ай бұрын

Stop stealing my ideas! 💡

@vivianvaldi7871 8 ай бұрын

It could also hurt WSJ building & collapese it to ashes. So beware newbees, put your sunglasses & call your mummies.

@Censortubes 8 ай бұрын

But they want us all dependent on electric cars etc? Let it sink in people. Lol!

@Censortubes 8 ай бұрын

@@GeorgeMaci whats it like having a room temp iq?

@Z1DM0 8 ай бұрын

I understand your point, but it’s not the issue here my friend. Making sure hospitals, telecommunications or even water access come before transportation. But as I’ve written b4, i understand your fair point of view. May I suggest going back to horses? As a fellow old-technology enthusiast, earth loving person, you know? Kind regards.

@Censortubes 8 ай бұрын

@@Z1DM0 < when you log into the wrong account. Can you tell us why you use two accounts? You haven't posted here. Lol!

@Censortubes 8 ай бұрын

@@Z1DM0 all of that runs off electric short bus.

@SunnyAquamarine2 8 ай бұрын

An economist's job is literally figuring out ways to get a much money as possible. Hey, wsj - do you think your name gives away your true objective?

@user-nb6gf1wj7c 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for that sensationlist view point. The only thing you left out was a gamma ray burst from Andromeda. Luckily I have my aluminium foil hat to protect me.

@black_starboard_khorassan 8 ай бұрын

They call me savior. I'm not saying what true faith is. There's no need. . Look at your surroundings that cause bad things to happen to you. Look at your relatives and those around you who do not want you to do good and want you to do evil. Look around you, see people around you who want bad things to happen to you. . Look at those around you who do not want you to practice the true faith. Anyone with a mind knows or can know true faith. !!!!!!!! belief.