I see the 15-18 hour measure, swear I saw 10 but longer is better :)

Suffice it to say I’m talking more about people with the resources to be posting things online. A back country cattle rancher in Africa is certainly going to handle the modern world going splat better than the modern world inhabitants.

Do you have sources for how much warning we might get? I think it’s measured in hours at best. CMEs *can* reach the earth in 10 hours...

‘Many’ hours is more than I’m aware of. CMEs can get here in as little as 10 hours for really big ones, days for smaller ones. The former are usually the ones we would care about.

I’m saying there is no current plan to disconnect the grids given a certain condition.

You are correct. We don’t have such a system in place, hence there aren’t any false alarms.

devices will be fine. Unplugged or adequate surge protection is enough.

One thing the article doesn’t really address is the grid scale transformers. We can’t make them but more than a small fraction per year of the current installed number.

Assuming it’s not plugged in or is adequately surge protected, electronic devices are fine for a CMP/Solar Flare event.

Why nuke the town? I’m just establishing your acceptable ranges. *You* clearly implied the grandma was an acceptable loss.

So clearly we needed to nuke the town. I mean it would stop the armed and dangerous person with relatively minimal collateral damage.

“Remove gas tax and instead institute a per-mile tax adjusted for weight *and efficiency* of the vehicle.”

Welcome children! Come closer and listen. Today’s word is “Liability”.

The problem was clearly illustrated where a dealer sold a used Tesla with ‘extra’ features that Tesla then *turned* off.

It is not a structural composite issue!

In the US, likely with free ammo

if you have roof mounted solar panels, you generally can’t adjust the angle.

Australia just provided 100% of grid usage from renewables for 29 of 31 days in October.

LEDs are significantly less likely to burn your house down than hot incandescents on a dry tree. So you may save a bit more than a few bucks on average.

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