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Govt. Report: A Major Solar Flare Will Strike a Killer Blow to the US Electrical Grid

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Update: December 22,2013

An official report prepared by John Kappenman, an independent consultant, was commissioned by The Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2010. The report is summarized in The JASON report on Impacts of Severe Space Weather on The Electrical Grid, http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/spaceweather.pdf project number 13119022. 

JASON is an independent group of some 60 scientists that advises the United States government on science and technology that could have national implications. It is run by the non-profit making MITRE Corporation in Virginia. There is a massive amount of information in the report which was published in November 2011. For the technically minded, transformers are discussed in detail, highlighting the problems that space weather impacts could, and does have on them. 

There are examples from around the world of the damage caused to electrical grids when a coronal mass ejection hits the Earth. 

Scientist Warns of Possible Space Weather Disasters
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXjU_hP9T1Q

There are details of different types of space weather, their effects and likely outcomes of such incidents. Kappenman based his findings on past space weather, the effects felt at the time and how the advances in technology since that time would be affected by a similar event.

Page 51-54 of the JASON report is of particular interest. It summarizes Kappenman’s findings. It is somber reading.

- More than 300 transformers destroyed.

- 130 million people in the United States lacking power for several years.

- 1-2 trillion dollars of economic losses.

 Read more here: http://humansarefree.com/2013/12/govt-report-major-solar-flare-will.html

 



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    • Upaces

      This very same warning also happened about 2 weeks ago. Come to find out, seems the Military had to thwart an EMP Attack…seems it had been generated in our own country.

    • Upaces

      Yeeeahhh, well, this was also reported a couple of weeks ago. I went around my entire house “un-plugging things” like that would help(?).
      Seems it wasn’t a solar flare at all.
      OUR Military had stopped a huge EMP Attack; and guess who didn’t bother to stop it? Well the Miitary did it anyway.

    • Anonymous

      Stop spreading the fear! Try to write positive articles. It is for everyone’s sake. Especially right now.

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