How fucked would we be if it hit?Scientists like to make a big deal of everything.
Interesting enough, a Carrington-level solar superstorm would likely destroy or permanently disable a significant portion of the Starlink satellite constellation. The event would cause fatal damage in two main ways: by frying sensitive onboard electronics with geomagnetic induction and by superheating the upper atmosphere, which would cause satellites to burn up.
>>17003351I guess they could replace those in a few years.The destruction of power grids, power stations and God knows what on the Earth's surface is much more scary
>>17003351so you're saying a carrington event is our best bet to solve kessler syndrome, got it
>>17003345Not at all, solar storms don't hit earth at speed of light, we can observe them coming and shut down the vulnerable systems in advance if neccessary.
Wont damage solar microgrids, graphene can upgrade grids to handle carrington class emp
>>17003387That also, would be temporary disruptionSolar continues to follow swansons law btw, that makes it cheaper than oil very very soon, even for fuel productionMy guess is solar will go from 3 year doubling to 1 year doubling starting this year due to graphene perovskite roll2roll process
>>17003381>many satellites will not deorbit and become uncontrollable>thousands of new satellites will be sent up>this will "solve kessler syndrome"
>>17003345The reports are probably massively exaggerated. Electricity was still new and mysterious at the time, and the systems were primitive. The grid doesn't get disrupted by lightning today, I see no real reason why a geomagnetic storm should cause any major disruption. Maybe some networks will temporally shut down at worst, if it triggers some safety measure.
