Extremely rare. More likely to trip over a cord and pull it out of the socket at some junction, causing a blackout through sheer incompetence, given the state of the power grid. Hell, hackers get every fucking moron to click links, giving them access to entire companies everyday.
"Oh, I just got an important notice about my google card from an email that ends in chinese characters. Better click the link and enter personal information to find out if I've been hacked!"
The kind of EMP disaster that you see in Call of Duty would be extremely unlucky as a natural event, but could be recovered. Many electrical things will stop working, but some things will be protected, others less so, and the other side of the Earth would still be fine.
People would die, but it's a recoverable disaster.
Remember that the Sun is a sphere, and we are a very tiny spec 96 million miles away. Any Carrington Events have to be pointed at us, and hit us in just the right place.
It would impact the outcome of who rules the world for the next century depending on what parts of the planet get hit. If it was the west, end of the western cultural dominance et al. Happens in the east and that’s the end of the rise of the dragon and India for several decades.
It's a logistical and maintenance issue but not a world-ending threat. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) damaged transformers and other grid infrastructure in Sweden, South Africa, Quebec, and New York, as recently as 2003. There's concern that damaged transformers take a long time to repair or replace, but utilities do maintain small stockpiles.
An early warning system would help mitigate damage, giving us the ability to shut down threatened grid systems before space weather can inflict any damage. As far as I know, no one has ever demonstrated that consumer electronics would be threated by such an event, but I suppose it's possible.
Extremely rare. More likely to trip over a cord and pull it out of the socket at some junction, causing a blackout through sheer incompetence, given the state of the power grid. Hell, hackers get every fucking moron to click links, giving them access to entire companies everyday.
"Oh, I just got an important notice about my google card from an email that ends in chinese characters. Better click the link and enter personal information to find out if I've been hacked!"
im presonally rooting for yellowstone supervolcano eruption
ORANGE intensifies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgrhzWzfTb4
As General Boobs said, exceedingly rare.
The kind of EMP disaster that you see in Call of Duty would be extremely unlucky as a natural event, but could be recovered. Many electrical things will stop working, but some things will be protected, others less so, and the other side of the Earth would still be fine.
People would die, but it's a recoverable disaster.
Remember that the Sun is a sphere, and we are a very tiny spec 96 million miles away. Any Carrington Events have to be pointed at us, and hit us in just the right place.
It would impact the outcome of who rules the world for the next century depending on what parts of the planet get hit. If it was the west, end of the western cultural dominance et al. Happens in the east and that’s the end of the rise of the dragon and India for several decades.
Buy a whole home surge protector with high wattage rating. If you got crypto on flash drives, place it in a faraday cage.
It's a logistical and maintenance issue but not a world-ending threat. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) damaged transformers and other grid infrastructure in Sweden, South Africa, Quebec, and New York, as recently as 2003. There's concern that damaged transformers take a long time to repair or replace, but utilities do maintain small stockpiles.
An early warning system would help mitigate damage, giving us the ability to shut down threatened grid systems before space weather can inflict any damage. As far as I know, no one has ever demonstrated that consumer electronics would be threated by such an event, but I suppose it's possible.