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Mention the words “Quebec Blackout” to an electrical engineer or a solar scientist, and you are likely to be in for a lively conversation. That is because the 1989 event, which lit up the sky across much of North America, was caused by a massive solar storm. Although solar storms with that kind of power ...

The deteriorating situation with North Korea has created a resurgence in interest in the chances of our country’s electrical grid being taken down by an EMP. Sadly, the EMP Commission, the nation’s only true experts on the effect of such ...

June 28, 2017 A perfect solar storm similar to one that slammed into Earth in 1859 would knock out the United States electric grid for four to 10 years if it hit today, an unpublished report from the Federal Emergency ...

Jan. 5, 2017 January offers us a time for reflection and prediction. For centuries, people looked to the stars for signs of what is to come, and winter offers many opportunities for stargazing. As we begin a new year, perhaps ...

Jan. 11, 2017 The U.S. power grid is in constant danger of a cyberattack that could cause widespread blackouts and impact millions of citizens, according to a new 492-page report from the Department of Energy that warns if nothing is ...

How vulnerable is America’s power grid? The Wall Street Journal recently did an in-depth study to find out the answer to that question, and the results are unsettling. “Despite federal orders to secure the power grid, tens of thousands of ...

Determining the specific ramifications after something like a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse weapon (EMP) attack, or even a Carrington Event-style coronal mass ejection (CME) is kind of a guessing game at this point. However, one thing we do know is that ...

A widely feared nightmare scenario has finally occurred, although in another country — hackers were able to cause a widespread power failure in the Ukraine by infecting utilities’ computers with malware. It is the first time a cyberattack has caused ...

Our sun is a very volatile star, with violent eruptions often occurring without us even knowing it. Solar storms, defined by NASA as “eruptions of mass and energy from the solar surface, including prominences, flares, sunspots and coronal ejections,” are ...

Can you cram in 12 hours all the survival essentials you would need to save your family for several months? That’s all the warning you would have before a solar storm takes out the power grid, according to a new ...