I thought large solar eruptions or solar storms (not sure proper terminology for most recent event) were expected to cause a fair amount of damage to electrical grids, communication services, and GPS, but I haven’t seen any reports of that. Why?
In: Planetary Science
The people who run power grids understand solar storms and know how to protect against them. At risk components can be disconnected when they’re at risk. That’s really one of the main reasons we invest in solar weather satellites.
There’s a lot of Internet doom about what these things do to electronics, but the reality is that there only dangerous to very long power lines over particular types of rock.
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