Post B1BlDVnt8uTipSM7NY by dickon@splodge.fluff.org
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 (DIR) Post #B1BjLh5IsuaIDyH83E by anon_opin@mastodon.social
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       Most computerised systems are vulnerable to solar storms. Another one like the Carrington Event of 1859 will put us back in the Middle Ages for weeks if not months. We are not prepared.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1Bk1TBuvio7IVHywS by ephemeromorph@topspicy.social
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       @anon_opin Knob-all we can do about it, innit? It's the fucking sun.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1BlDVnt8uTipSM7NY by dickon@splodge.fluff.org
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       @anon_opin Carrington at North America will see the whole fucking lot back to the stone-age.  120V is stupid, and *all* those 2-3 house pole-mounted transformers will explode like so much popcorn.They're fucked.  They just don't realise it yet.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1CKwuwG2E6uD7emZs by marktyndall@mastodon.social
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       @anon_opin nope.It's stuff like power grids that are susceptible to another Carrington event, not computers. The grid operators woke up to the risk in 1989, when a coronal mass ejection took out a power grid transformer in Canada.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1CM6ly4LJdtEpldPU by Torstein@mastodon.social
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       @anon_opin years if not decades.There are a few companies capable of building the gigant transformers used in modern power management. Before the AI-craze the waiting time when ordering was 18 months, now probably a bit longer.A Carrington event could burn out half the transformers for the continent hit, instantly crippling the power grids.Don't mind computers, all modern logistics need electrical power at some crucial step in the process.The dead will be in the millions within a month.