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by StormBringer » Sat 02 May 2009, 18:26:27
ReverseEngineer wrote:Warming up for the Big One in LA. I miss Storm Bringer
by StormBringer » Sat 02 May 2009, 19:17:05
by dunewalker » Sat 02 May 2009, 21:08:02
by StormBringer » Sat 02 May 2009, 23:23:00
NASA: Impact of Solar Flare
NASA's 132-page report, entitled Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts, paints a pretty grim picture of the damage that could occur in the USA (and presumably elsewhere in the world) due to severe space weather:
According to the report, power grids may be more vulnerable than ever. The problem is interconnectedness. In recent years, utilities have joined grids together to allow long-distance transmission of low-cost power to areas of sudden demand. On a hot summer day in California, for instance, people in Los Angeles might be running their air conditioners on power routed from Oregon. It makes economic sense—but not necessarily geomagnetic sense. Interconnectedness makes the system susceptible to wide-ranging "cascade failures."
...He found more than 350 transformers at risk of permanent damage and 130 million people without power. The loss of electricity would ripple across the social infrastructure with "water distribution affected within several hours; perishable foods and medications lost in 12-24 hours; loss of heating/air conditioning, sewage disposal, phone service, fuel re-supply and so on."
The solution is a more sturdy electric infrastructure. Who knows if or when that will occur. Meanwhile the severe space weather could happen at any time, even tomorrow.
by StormBringer » Sat 02 May 2009, 23:32:12
by StormBringer » Sun 03 May 2009, 07:13:46
by StormBringer » Sun 03 May 2009, 09:28:38
by StormBringer » Mon 04 May 2009, 20:55:03
Submitted by Billy Hackett on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 05:23.
Mount Redoubt is showing increased signs of unrest. The volcano about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage continues to rumble and grumble, and yesterday produced an ash and steam plume that went 18,000 feet into the air. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says the day began with more continuous ash emissions. The significant ash plume occurred in the afternoon. The volcano has its last major explosion on April 4.
(Associated Press)
by mos6507 » Tue 05 May 2009, 08:56:24
StormBringer wrote:RedStateGreen wrote:Welcome back Stormbringer!
Thank You..........Back With A Vengence
by StormBringer » Tue 05 May 2009, 19:16:02
mos6507 wrote:
Is this a sign that Yellowstone Caldera is heating up again?
by stonecypher » Tue 05 May 2009, 20:46:41
by StormBringer » Fri 08 May 2009, 21:08:42
Pole Shift - A Disaster Waiting to Happen?
An impending magnetic, or pole, reversal was one of the hot topics of
the 80's when the book "Pole Shift" by John White was a best seller
and it was thought that it might happen any time now.
As with most prophesies around the end of the twentieth century, the
sense of impending doom has lessened and the pole shift "warning" has
been downgraded to a pole shift "watch."
But this is one of those things that are very probably going to happen
at some point "soon" in the earth's history....it's just that mankind
has a very small view of the overall earth clock, and to the earth,
"soon" could mean anytime in the next 100,000 years, so don't hold
your breath. Scientists currently tell us that pole shifts occur, on
average, once every 500,000 years. The last pole shift was 780,000
years ago so we are overdue for one (just as we are overdue for a big
asteroid strike, and for a super volcano eruption....just hope they
don't all happen at once!)
The planet's geologic record has very clear evidence that pole shifts
have occurred many times in the past and there is no doubt that they
will occur again. ( The phenomenon referred to here as a "pole shift"
is not the shifting of the crust by thousands of miles, but rather,
changes in the magnetic field of the planet. Some unscrupulous writers
in the 70s and 80s tried to imply that the continents were going to
start sliding about like melting ice on a hot plate, but that's not
current scientific thinking.)
However, its not all good news. Until recently, it was thought that
pole shifts were a gradual process. But recent evidence from studying
the alignment of iron particles in lava flows found one case where the
Earth's magnetic field shifted 80 degrees in 13 days.
by StormBringer » Fri 08 May 2009, 21:12:40
by alokin » Fri 08 May 2009, 21:42:45
by alokin » Fri 08 May 2009, 22:23:57
by vision-master » Sat 09 May 2009, 08:00:00
StormBringer wrote:80 Deg. in 13 days would be eventful to say the least...........Any speculation on what might be the result of such a rapid switch??????
by RdSnt » Sat 09 May 2009, 16:23:57
alokin wrote:That would be huge nearly right angle and what the equator is now would be the north pole. That would mean the equator becomes cold and the poles hot..? Just my unscientific speculation.
by StormBringer » Mon 11 May 2009, 16:43:55
by wisconsin_cur » Mon 11 May 2009, 18:09:39
alokin wrote:That would be huge nearly right angle and what the equator is now would be the north pole. That would mean the equator becomes cold and the poles hot..? Just my unscientific speculation.
by Ludi » Mon 11 May 2009, 18:36:45
RdSnt wrote:In the end we don't know for sure what is creating the magnetic field.
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