A large solar storm could knock out the power grid and the internet – an electrical engineer explains how
- Written by David Wallace, Assistant Clinical Professor of Electrical Engineering, Mississippi State University
Typical amounts of solar particles hitting the earth's magnetosphere can be beautiful, but too much could be catastrophic.Svein-Magne Tunli - tunliweb.no/Wikimedia, CC BY-NC-SAOn Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper...