I'm confident that our big power companies and grid operators in the US will be investing whatever is necessary to prepare for a Carrington-level event. One good example of how they plan ahead is the recent cold-weather event in Texas and how well the grid was prepared for that. Ummm, errrrr, ..... never mind.
Well, to be fair, we all do very little to prepare for all aspects of life. Humans tend to wait until disaster strikes and then call for action only after significant damage has already been done.
The earth is hardly struggling with anything in the UK they've built massive regional hospitals to cope specifically with covid patients and guess what they were never hardly used. Deaths have been exaggerated because of incorrect data gathering (eg counting one death as mutiple deaths or incorrectly attributing deaths to covid thje list goes on and on) And now the government has mandated the wearing of masks in shops for absolutely no reason when we are well past the peak of this chinese flu.
I’m calling it: Curios Droid is now the only British spiritual successor to Horizon and QED still broadcasting. Terrestrial UK television science programming is all but dead now.
What about Brian Cox? He's the successor to Patrick Moore. I don't agree with Brian's politics. But he knows his space stuff. Curious Droid is a cool dude
@Owen Yin Sweden just started maintenance checks on theirs. Will take over 4 years cos they have bunkers for twice their own population. You can buy Faraday tents for 10 bucks online easily if it is just a CME.
If your system is connected to the grid, then yes, do it ASAP. If it's independent of the grid, then you probably don't need to worry. The threat to you comes from the long power lines of the grid, not from the short lines of a local installation. Most satellites can survive simply because they're small. If I get advance notice of a thunderstorm I disconnect my router from (long overhead) mains and phone line. It's been fried twice before I started doing this. The energy concentration of either lightning or a Carrington event is not enough to damage the router if it's not connected. Well OK, except if thé lightning happens to pick my house.....
If you are tied to the grid with your solar, ask your utility about your transformer. If it is single phase with neutral return and the neutral is grounded at the pole or pad, you may have a concern. These are most often 7200 volt single bushing primary transformers. For isolation, request a 2 bushing transformer for 12800 volt phase to phase primary. A delta primary has no neutral or ground connection and thus have no DC path providing proper isolation. The center of the secondary is neutral bonded for local are grounding and does not carry DC currents or voltage from high earth current. If your facility is fed with a pad mounted transformer, read the name plate to find the type. If you are fed from a utility pole transformer, count the number of HV bushings on top. You want a transformer with 2 bushings connected to phase to phase on a 3 phase system, not a single hot phase and neutral feeding the transformer. A one bushing transformer may have fairly high neutral current on the transformer ground. Surge protection is for lighting strikes and other transient events, not a sustained DC neutral current in your local utility transformer.
@@raykent3211 For lightning protection of your router, check the grounding of the phone system interface. Is it bonded to the utility service and the plumbing? Bonding all three provides good protection from transient spikes. The surge protection of the phone line should be tied to the main grounding system for the utility to prevent a high differential voltage between phone lines and utility power ground. For more info on the subject and the regulations, see this article. www.bicsi.org/docs/default-source/conference-presentations/2017-mea-uae/grounding-and-bonding.pdf?sfvrsn=3112558d_2
I have just re-watched this video - and I am still very satisfied with this summary of geomagnetic storms and our vulnerability. The visuals and explanation are really well done.
This channel is so well done -- jumps straight into the topic with no "Hey TH-camrs!" or "Please Like and Subscribe so you don't miss any of my awesome content!"....with quality content that is professionally scripted, produced, and presented. Kudos to you, Curious Droid.
With the sun waking up, the magnetic poles on the move and the magnetic feilds strength on an accelerated decline... I'd say be a good time to prepare.
Yeah there was no mention of the mangentic pole shift or the weakening magnetosphere in this at all. Not to mention how much more at risk we are now, going into solar cycle 25 and the sun is already more active!
@@madezra64 if you listen to this people were talking mass instincrion. How ever pole changes happened several times in earth's history. Don't worry nothing will happen during your life time
I have a 4 cylinder, 31 year old Mazda pick up truck in perfect shape... No electronics, nothing electric, even the windows are manual, lol... But when the EMP hits, the streets will be mine alone!!! 😁
They rely heavily on kerosene, lamp oil and gas for equipment and chainsaws. They would manage better, but it would be a shift. And like the rest of us, they quit spinning and weaving when mass produced fabric came along.
This is a very good reminder of how prepared we need to be for huge CME's. With tech like Starlink coming out, who knows how badly the entire network would suffer if hit by this sort of CME. Thanks for the video!
We know how badly it would suffer. But the effects of that will be much worse. Large areas offline (electricity-wise and internet-wise) for extended periods of time will be devastating for the people of today.
The way 2020 is going, a massive CME wouldn't surprise me in the least, right after the next, 9.5 subduction earthquake here in the West Coast of Canada...
I live in a small town of 57.000 people and we have 4 hydro electric dams plus 5 wind turbines connected to the grid. I keep asking our power company if there IS a grid failure, can we isolate to protect us from EMP damage as soon as it becomes known and can we keep us ISOLATED from the rest of the "down grid" to keep our lights on. They don't even want to talk to me even after I explain I am a volunteer firefighter and have a LOT of FEMA training. I realize the grid is a balancing act, but we should be able to keep us up and running and shed the excess or adjust the output from the turbines. Myself, I have 2 old microwaves, one of which I keep my car keys, cell phone and some small electronic devices in, the larger one I keep my back up tower and cd player. Both have the cords removed and I tested them to be certain they would block any stray electrical pulses. My older (1988) GMC truck has minimal computers and I bought a spare ECM and keep it in the microwave also. My Volvo on the other hand, fergeddabout it. It has more computers that there is no way to protect (short of covering the whole car with an EMP cloth and grounding it) without costing a fortune. I have several designs to make a Faraday Cage in which I could store larger things so I could at least (maybe) watch DVD's. BUT we are WOEFULLY unprepared for any sizable event. It will simply cascade through the system and destroy transformers. And guess who )at last check) is the ONLY country to produce the MEGA HUGE transformers? Yep. China. Lead time for ONE is 18 months. If the whole grid goes down, it will take YEARS AND YEARS to get the transformers we need to get back on line.
The 1989 solar maximum was epic. The Aurora Borealis was so bright I thought the sky was on fire. Spent the night on Lake Ontario laying between the ridges of pack ice on the shore, out of the wind and with no light pollution until Toronto. If I described it you'd think I was on LSD.
Preparedness is a tradeoff of costs: How expensive is it to be prepared considering the frequency of the event vs. how expensive it is to deal with the aftermath. I hope people in positions of responsibility for this specific event are doing their math right, but regardless of that history shows we are better at responding reactively than proactively, to put it nicely.
When I was in college, my astronomy professor told us about how he used to see, every once in a while, Auroras in Central Florida. They would be extremely faint but they were still visible.
There are very, very few places left in the Eastern USA where the night sky isn't polluted with lights from houses, companies, towns and cities. Depending on how long ago that was, your professor may have lived in such an area. Those who have never spent the nights very far from civilization will never know all they are missing in the night skies.
Apparently SUPER well prepared! Overall mortality due to "Pneumonia and Influenza-Like Illness" is exactly in the range of "NORMAL" in Q1 2020. So Well Done everyone! Nothing happened! We survived!!
@@Rachel-tz2ls The biggest factor in the COVID-19 pandemic that caused increased mortality was and is the massive disinformation campaign by plague deniers. The Chinese government tried to downplay the epidemic on its outset, and the American populace did their best to report the rampant reports of infection and death as not happening. It was almost as if someone was pulling the strings of both the Communist Party and the Republican Party to simultaneously act as one. Was there someone acting behind the scenes? Don't know. Don't care. The biggest factor in the spread of the disease right now are those disinformation agents. They're pulling their own strings, and the primary means of protecting yourself is cutting those strings in any way possible.
Anybody else think about this ? We have these CME (coronal mass ejections) threat's all the time now and corona virus. See the similarities here? Great video, well done and easy to understand. Thank u sir.
Part of me really wishes we could get hit with one that will knock us back to 1950s type capability. No internet, no cell phones. Let it cause us too have to just deal with things at a slow pace for a few years until we can get back to where we were. Perhaps it’ll cause us to reconsider what some of us are doing that’s leading us down a very bad path. We need something to remind us of the wonderful things we are severely disregarding right now
I like your optimistic view of this, personally, because nobody is prepared and every bank account/bitcoin in the world will be destroyed, I think it will be cataclysmic, no food supply chain, famine(in town), and way worst. Something that could start a new world, in a bad way.
A note on the Appalachian Mountain range...the reason Scotland's rocks are the same is because their mountains are part of the original Appalachian range, broken apart by continental drift millions of years ago. In fact, the US Appalachians and the mountains in parts of Greenland, Scotland and Norway were all once part of the greatest mountain range the earth has ever known...the Appalachians...which were as tall as the Himalayas and longer than the Andes.
Long stretch of lines is quite the understatement... The lines you see in Quebec are a thousand kilometre from north to south. There's enough of them to circle the globe. I'm not sure that the effects would be anywhere near as severe as 1989 if we got hit by another storm. The network has been seriously upgraded since then. Many of the shopping mall sized substations have been almost fully rebuild from scratch. The same can be said of a number of power lines which collapsed like dominoes following the 1999 ice storm. There's a lot more redundancy built into the system then there was back then.
A Carrington Event in 2023 would set the entire world back 300+ years. Luckily, every inch of my roof is covered with solar panels. I also have a $9,000 stand-by generator as well.
History has shown that predicting a major event and its ramifications is difficult and we are always off mark. Just consider weather forecasting, where the effects of Nature are normally overstated or understated. So something as rare as a Carrington level solar event is poorly understood, the effects undoubtedly more variegated than we understand. With our electronic world, far more so than in 1859, of course, we won't know the effects until a few days after that future event.
Sadly as a Canadian I fear both the government here and the power companies are prepared for anything nearing the magnitude of what was discussed in this video.
I guess he just forgot to mention that the earth's magnetic field is weakening at an accelerated rate since the Carrington Event and the poles changed direction of travel and sped up their March away from the true N/S orientation since that same event. And that a weaker magnetic field means that it wouldn't take as strong of an event to accomplish the same effects. But, I'm sure that this was just an oversight.
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What i don't understand is why large overcurrent shutoffs and shunting devices aren't the go to protection. There is obviously a reason but why? At every station. It doesn't seem it would be a cost thing because they have something like that already. I don't get it
When I first saw images of x-flares I was impressed that it could be the biggest standing wave pattern visible to humans. Does anyone discuss why the plasma forms those lines? Is there a significance to the wavelength? Has anyone compared x-flares to see if the lines spacing relates to anything? Why are they confined to narrow bands and not wider and spherical?
If we have a Carrington event it will be far bigger than anything we have ever seen. climate change would be a fond memory because the Carrington event is real.
@14:50 You say that the UK will turn *on* all the systems to drain the excess into the ground, then @15:34 you mentioned that some would be *shut down* to protect them. Why the opposite responses? Does that depend on the polarity? Severity?
yea, good thing we are now totally dependent on our satellites for communications which are now the only way for financial transactions to occur and the distribution of goods and services. what could possibly go wrong ?
That could be potentially lethal. In a pole reversal, the field it potentially at its weakest...exposing the surface to more charged particles from the sun and space.
Probably not. I remember seeing the aurora when I lived in northern Nevada at around 40° North latitude back in 2003. It was one of the largest solar storm events of the space age, and I can't find any references to any major damage being caused by it. There was an hour long blackout in Sweden, and some satellites were damaged, but that was about it. Since most of Germany is above 47°N, you would be able to see auroras caused by even weaker storms.
@@Marinealver That could be the follow up question to "were we ready for...", and is pointless considering you already know the answer. More appropriately, you should be asking "how many would die?"
Based on all the places I have worked and all the people I have worked with, we are not prepared and it will be a matter of how competent we are at dealing with the aftermath.
Even a blast like starfish prime could be a serious event. Are we ready? Heck no. While a small amount of government and military systems are shielded, it is too expensive to be used by almost any company.
I work on the electrical grid every day, he is a little confused on some stuff. We use a devise, and I mean millions of them the don’t let this stuff happen. If we have a big storm nothing really bad will happen. And when I say million of them I mean millions in ever city.
@Ярослав Л Careful, it's a trick. When they see the next large CME, 15 hours later they will turn all the North and South grids off, isolate the breakers and then wait for the pulse to pass by. Then they will wait a few hours to see what you do.......... O^O How's that for sneaky?
Respect to the cameraman for taking all these close shots of the sun, despite all the heat and solar winds.
I think his name is Icarus...
They go at night when the sun is cooler! 😄
@@AlainHubert Yup. That's the dude...used to date my sister.
Factor 5 million sun block was a good call
Tier 1 troll
Better get cracking, 2020 ain’t over yet.
Yo Cody!
Cody's next project must be a Faraday cage for Chicken Hole Base.
@Codys Lab oh yea whatre u gunna do, go live in a mine and eat dogs? Pfffshffthhshhffthhsshht.
Only kidding lol
Or *am* I?
Yes. Lol.
Fin
Facts this could be our october suprise.
@J R Flying poo-flinging monkeys?
Basically just a seagull
I'm confident that our big power companies and grid operators in the US will be investing whatever is necessary to prepare for a Carrington-level event. One good example of how they plan ahead is the recent cold-weather event in Texas and how well the grid was prepared for that. Ummm, errrrr, ..... never mind.
Nah
You mean a once in a generation low temperature?
It’s easy to poke fun as hind sight is always 20/20.
Well, to be fair, we all do very little to prepare for all aspects of life. Humans tend to wait until disaster strikes and then call for action only after significant damage has already been done.
I really like your teaching. You’re engaging, eloquent and you’re descriptive nature keeps us wanting more.
Earth : Struggling with Corona
Sun's Corona : You ain't seen nothing yet
US - suffering from Corona
Sun - hold my beer.
You mean earth struggling with 5G Syndrome, right?
The earth is hardly struggling with anything in the UK they've built massive regional hospitals to cope specifically with covid patients and guess what they were never hardly used. Deaths have been exaggerated because of incorrect data gathering (eg counting one death as mutiple deaths or incorrectly attributing deaths to covid thje list goes on and on) And now the government has mandated the wearing of masks in shops for absolutely no reason when we are well past the peak of this chinese flu.
Guys relax, this isn't gonna happen until at least September.
@@chatteyj globalists flu NWO
I’m calling it: Curios Droid is now the only British spiritual successor to Horizon and QED still broadcasting. Terrestrial UK television science programming is all but dead now.
Dam right. Best science show on yt
Didn't Channel 4's 'Equinox' also encompass science ...?
Respect - This channel is un rivalled in technical content
Are those two programmes gone now?
What about Brian Cox? He's the successor to Patrick Moore. I don't agree with Brian's politics. But he knows his space stuff. Curious Droid is a cool dude
Im certain that i have learned more from this channel than all of grade school and college. Love it
Got a surge protector I've been meaning to install on my solar power system, I'll go do that now...
Think Faraday Cage....
@Owen Yin Sweden just started maintenance checks on theirs. Will take over 4 years cos they have bunkers for twice their own population.
You can buy Faraday tents for 10 bucks online easily if it is just a CME.
If your system is connected to the grid, then yes, do it ASAP. If it's independent of the grid, then you probably don't need to worry. The threat to you comes from the long power lines of the grid, not from the short lines of a local installation. Most satellites can survive simply because they're small. If I get advance notice of a thunderstorm I disconnect my router from (long overhead) mains and phone line. It's been fried twice before I started doing this. The energy concentration of either lightning or a Carrington event is not enough to damage the router if it's not connected. Well OK, except if thé lightning happens to pick my house.....
If you are tied to the grid with your solar, ask your utility about your transformer. If it is single phase with neutral return and the neutral is grounded at the pole or pad, you may have a concern. These are most often 7200 volt single bushing primary transformers. For isolation, request a 2 bushing transformer for 12800 volt phase to phase primary. A delta primary has no neutral or ground connection and thus have no DC path providing proper isolation. The center of the secondary is neutral bonded for local are grounding and does not carry DC currents or voltage from high earth current. If your facility is fed with a pad mounted transformer, read the name plate to find the type. If you are fed from a utility pole transformer, count the number of HV bushings on top. You want a transformer with 2 bushings connected to phase to phase on a 3 phase system, not a single hot phase and neutral feeding the transformer. A one bushing transformer may have fairly high neutral current on the transformer ground. Surge protection is for lighting strikes and other transient events, not a sustained DC neutral current in your local utility transformer.
@@raykent3211 For lightning protection of your router, check the grounding of the phone system interface. Is it bonded to the utility service and the plumbing? Bonding all three provides good protection from transient spikes. The surge protection of the phone line should be tied to the main grounding system for the utility to prevent a high differential voltage between phone lines and utility power ground.
For more info on the subject and the regulations, see this article. www.bicsi.org/docs/default-source/conference-presentations/2017-mea-uae/grounding-and-bonding.pdf?sfvrsn=3112558d_2
I thihk Droid and James May shop at the same shirt store. :)
Or rather, have you ever seen them in the same room at the same time?
@@fitzmode That'd take one hell of a wig :)
I have just re-watched this video - and I am still very satisfied with this summary of geomagnetic storms and our vulnerability. The visuals and explanation are really well done.
This channel is so well done -- jumps straight into the topic with no "Hey TH-camrs!" or "Please Like and Subscribe so you don't miss any of my awesome content!"....with quality content that is professionally scripted, produced, and presented. Kudos to you, Curious Droid.
With the sun waking up, the magnetic poles on the move and the magnetic feilds strength on an accelerated decline... I'd say be a good time to prepare.
Mo Mason
All we have to do is say the sun is problematic and it will be canceled, thus saving earth
It already does. Since the 1859 event its been on the move. Check out spaceweathernews.com/
Yeah there was no mention of the mangentic pole shift or the weakening magnetosphere in this at all. Not to mention how much more at risk we are now, going into solar cycle 25 and the sun is already more active!
@@joewilson941 This shit scares me bad. How bad are we talking here?
@@madezra64 if you listen to this people were talking mass instincrion. How ever pole changes happened several times in earth's history. Don't worry nothing will happen during your life time
I knew the city street view at the beginning was telling me something. That’s Sainte-Catherine street in Montreal!
Amish people: We are prepared.
well, they are at peace perhaps, which is a different kind of being prepared
Unfortunately a million zombies will overrun you.
I have a 4 cylinder, 31 year old Mazda pick up truck in perfect shape... No electronics, nothing electric, even the windows are manual, lol...
But when the EMP hits, the streets will be mine alone!!! 😁
@@abelis644 What starts the motor?
They rely heavily on kerosene, lamp oil and gas for equipment and chainsaws.
They would manage better, but it would be a shift.
And like the rest of us, they quit spinning and weaving when mass produced fabric came along.
So in short, Cuba and West Virginia would be the only states with a large amount of cars still running?
😂😂😂👍
Ah yes Cuba, my favourite US state
@@buttersquids Cuba is the best state in the U.S!
Cuba rocks, man. By far the best US state.
I love Cuba, Infact I think it should be it’s own country , because it is so EPIC
This is a very good reminder of how prepared we need to be for huge CME's. With tech like Starlink coming out, who knows how badly the entire network would suffer if hit by this sort of CME.
Thanks for the video!
We know how badly it would suffer. But the effects of that will be much worse. Large areas offline (electricity-wise and internet-wise) for extended periods of time will be devastating for the people of today.
The way 2020 is going, a massive CME wouldn't surprise me in the least, right after the next, 9.5 subduction earthquake here in the West Coast of Canada...
Marcus House i hope elon musk knows about this
I live in a small town of 57.000 people and we have 4 hydro electric dams plus 5 wind turbines connected to the grid. I keep asking our power company if there IS a grid failure, can we isolate to protect us from EMP damage as soon as it becomes known and can we keep us ISOLATED from the rest of the "down grid" to keep our lights on. They don't even want to talk to me even after I explain I am a volunteer firefighter and have a LOT of FEMA training. I realize the grid is a balancing act, but we should be able to keep us up and running and shed the excess or adjust the output from the turbines.
Myself, I have 2 old microwaves, one of which I keep my car keys, cell phone and some small electronic devices in, the larger one I keep my back up tower and cd player. Both have the cords removed and I tested them to be certain they would block any stray electrical pulses. My older (1988) GMC truck has minimal computers and I bought a spare ECM and keep it in the microwave also. My Volvo on the other hand, fergeddabout it. It has more computers that there is no way to protect (short of covering the whole car with an EMP cloth and grounding it) without costing a fortune. I have several designs to make a Faraday Cage in which I could store larger things so I could at least (maybe) watch DVD's.
BUT we are WOEFULLY unprepared for any sizable event. It will simply cascade through the system and destroy transformers. And guess who )at last check) is the ONLY country to produce the MEGA HUGE transformers? Yep. China. Lead time for ONE is 18 months. If the whole grid goes down, it will take YEARS AND YEARS to get the transformers we need to get back on line.
2020: Write that down! write that down!
Shhh don't give it any ideas, at this rate Russia's gonna invade someone
Yeben01 *China, keep your eyes on the South China sea and Middle East :)
Yeben01 when was the last time that actually worked out for them? 1944?
The 1989 solar maximum was epic. The Aurora Borealis was so bright I thought the sky was on fire. Spent the night on Lake Ontario laying between the ridges of pack ice on the shore, out of the wind and with no light pollution until Toronto. If I described it you'd think I was on LSD.
Preparedness is a tradeoff of costs: How expensive is it to be prepared considering the frequency of the event vs. how expensive it is to deal with the aftermath. I hope people in positions of responsibility for this specific event are doing their math right, but regardless of that history shows we are better at responding reactively than proactively, to put it nicely.
When I was in college, my astronomy professor told us about how he used to see, every once in a while, Auroras in Central Florida. They would be extremely faint but they were still visible.
Curious, about how long ago was that....as a kid I remember some strange skies....😎
Perhaps in the age of nuclear testing?
There are very, very few places left in the Eastern USA where the night sky isn't polluted with lights from houses, companies, towns and cities. Depending on how long ago that was, your professor may have lived in such an area. Those who have never spent the nights very far from civilization will never know all they are missing in the night skies.
I lived all over the UK for 25 years and my dad came from Scotland with his family. Oh how I long to go back and live the rest of my life in the UK.
We missed the big one by 9 days on July 23, 2012.
How prepared were we for a global pandemic, that everybody knew was going to happen sooner or later?
Apparently SUPER well prepared! Overall mortality due to "Pneumonia and Influenza-Like Illness" is exactly in the range of "NORMAL" in Q1 2020. So Well Done everyone! Nothing happened! We survived!!
@@RHYD_ He's a conspiracy theorist. All their parents are related. Getting through to him would be like playing pool with a piece of rope.
@@jameswhite1910 Everyone lost their fookin minds, I don’t think that’s nothing
@@jameswhite1910 Hooray for everyone except those who are dead!
@@Rachel-tz2ls The biggest factor in the COVID-19 pandemic that caused increased mortality was and is the massive disinformation campaign by plague deniers.
The Chinese government tried to downplay the epidemic on its outset, and the American populace did their best to report the rampant reports of infection and death as not happening. It was almost as if someone was pulling the strings of both the Communist Party and the Republican Party to simultaneously act as one.
Was there someone acting behind the scenes? Don't know. Don't care. The biggest factor in the spread of the disease right now are those disinformation agents. They're pulling their own strings, and the primary means of protecting yourself is cutting those strings in any way possible.
Anybody else think about this ? We have these CME (coronal mass ejections) threat's all the time now and corona virus. See the similarities here?
Great video, well done and easy to understand. Thank u sir.
Part of me really wishes we could get hit with one that will knock us back to 1950s type capability. No internet, no cell phones. Let it cause us too have to just deal with things at a slow pace for a few years until we can get back to where we were. Perhaps it’ll cause us to reconsider what some of us are doing that’s leading us down a very bad path. We need something to remind us of the wonderful things we are severely disregarding right now
I like your optimistic view of this, personally, because nobody is prepared and every bank account/bitcoin in the world will be destroyed, I think it will be cataclysmic, no food supply chain, famine(in town), and way worst. Something that could start a new world, in a bad way.
I remember this event taking place in the eighties and Delighting in watching the Aurora Borealis here in Texas for 2 nights!! 🤠👍
Enjoying this! As a technician for 41years...best explanation !
A note on the Appalachian Mountain range...the reason Scotland's rocks are the same is because their mountains are part of the original Appalachian range, broken apart by continental drift millions of years ago. In fact, the US Appalachians and the mountains in parts of Greenland, Scotland and Norway were all once part of the greatest mountain range the earth has ever known...the Appalachians...which were as tall as the Himalayas and longer than the Andes.
Oh man. Just throw in the apocalypse meteor already 2020. Make it fast.
Just hoping it lands right on me so I don't have to suffer.
Revelations 19:17 predicts this event
Only a few minutes ago I was thinking "I wonder if Curious Droid has any new videos?". Perfect timing :)
I’m ready. I put my storm windows up last week.
Short answer: NO
Long answer: HELL NO
Ultra long answer: HELL TO THE NO
Beautiful wording and high quality content. Thanks you so much !
Thank you. Great presentation and I learned a great deal. Best wishes to you, sir.
Long stretch of lines is quite the understatement... The lines you see in Quebec are a thousand kilometre from north to south. There's enough of them to circle the globe. I'm not sure that the effects would be anywhere near as severe as 1989 if we got hit by another storm. The network has been seriously upgraded since then. Many of the shopping mall sized substations have been almost fully rebuild from scratch. The same can be said of a number of power lines which collapsed like dominoes following the 1999 ice storm. There's a lot more redundancy built into the system then there was back then.
The Carrington event was pretty minor in terms of solar flares, it could be far worse and devastate the world when it happens next.
I'm watching tgis while drunk :)
even better when drunk & stoned my friend Alec
Well done mate. You are watching Curious Droid pissed and alone. The alone sound you should be hearing now are the alarm bells of your self respect.
Me too m8
@@rogecoeurdelion7699 yer gey
Crikey!! Chris Packham has changed during the lock down!!
I don’t know why but the intro always makes me feel like it’s the opening of the X-Men Movies lol Great videos
6:36 Is it only me who thinks this graphic is absolutely terrifying?
@william dohn god damit
How is it terryfiing?
@@guidinglight6968 how is it not?
@@AugmentedGravity because it's just colored...
@@guidinglight6968 .......
A Carrington Event in 2023 would set the entire world back 300+ years. Luckily, every inch of my roof is covered with solar panels. I also have a $9,000 stand-by generator as well.
I'm going off-grid solar for my "dream house". 30kW of solar + a Tesla powerpack (250kWh).
I found a new home channel on TH-cam. Fascinating information on here~
History has shown that predicting a major event and its ramifications is difficult and we are always off mark. Just consider weather forecasting, where the effects of Nature are normally overstated or understated. So something as rare as a Carrington level solar event is poorly understood, the effects undoubtedly more variegated than we understand. With our electronic world, far more so than in 1859, of course, we won't know the effects until a few days after that future event.
This is really really important! Thank you for making this video.
I'm pretty prepared solar panels, Solar shaving kit, Solar snow and a solar bear holding a Coke. So yeah, I'm freakin good man
Great video it’s a pity the constant ads ruin the lecture
That SHIRT is TO COOL FOR SCHOOl !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well done on the graphics!
Sadly as a Canadian I fear both the government here and the power companies are prepared for anything nearing the magnitude of what was discussed in this video.
When he sais CMEs, I think he's saying Siamese.
Don't do great vowel shifts, kids.
I for one am looking forward to it. We could all do with a break from the internet.
2020 hasn't finished with us yet............ And to think. The Mayan Calendar was only 8 years out. Now that's impressive
Thank you for the warning Sir.
1989 was long before most of us were born.
I had left high school the year before 😂🤣😂🤣
I guess he just forgot to mention that the earth's magnetic field is weakening at an accelerated rate since the Carrington Event and the poles changed direction of travel and sped up their March away from the true N/S orientation since that same event.
And that a weaker magnetic field means that it wouldn't take as strong of an event to accomplish the same effects.
But, I'm sure that this was just an oversight.
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"Black hole sun, won't you come , and wash away the pain"
Mom: just unplug the tv when a thunderstorm happens
Me: N O
A similar response by the government
11:21 spelling mistake you have spelt Canadian wrong, but otherwise an interesting and well put together video as usual Paul!
Plasma energy!! Let's get it craken!! This is what you call a cleansing of the Earth! Mother Earth is doing her thing... The Kundalini love has risen... There is no stopping this... Feeling Mother Earth under my feet.. Mother Earth has a heartbeat... Love love love ❤️🌎
What i don't understand is why large overcurrent shutoffs and shunting devices aren't the go to protection. There is obviously a reason but why? At every station. It doesn't seem it would be a cost thing because they have something like that already. I don't get it
My shelves are stocked with board games and candles. I'm ready!!
Excellent content
I wish I could get away with wearing your shirts. Love the designs, but the stick I would get..
Relish the stick. Or get new friends!
Sooner the better. This madhouse needs a re-boot !
When I first saw images of x-flares I was impressed that it could be the biggest standing wave pattern visible to humans. Does anyone discuss why the plasma forms those lines? Is there a significance to the wavelength? Has anyone compared x-flares to see if the lines spacing relates to anything? Why are they confined to narrow bands and not wider and spherical?
12:38 Why are the Rockies only depicted as being a tiny splotch through some states, with the Sierra Nevada as being distinct and separate?
If we have a Carrington event it will be far bigger than anything we have ever seen. climate change would be a fond memory because the Carrington event is real.
I was surprised that this did not address satellite sensitivity to these events? Are they shielded well/enough?
Being a highly intelligent evolved species
Sun:Little bug CRUSH
2020: forest fire plague famine mass flooding economic collapse earthquake
Sun: wait I haven't show my corona mass ejection yet
Nice video. Nice shirt.
when nature gives the middle finger we give it back
@14:50 You say that the UK will turn *on* all the systems to drain the excess into the ground, then @15:34 you mentioned that some would be *shut down* to protect them. Why the opposite responses? Does that depend on the polarity? Severity?
A hilarious question. Prepare for disaster? There's no profit in it. Lots to be made cleaning up after though
Popular media does not talk about this at all..
You talked about power lines but what about electronics?
A carrington event could destroy almost all electronic devices.
Why don't we start converting power lines to underground networks that shield the cable network?
1996 The Trigger Effect,,,Good movie " no power people go crazt"
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CoronaVirus, Coronal mass ejection, lots of similarities in the end.
Elon Musk : hhmmm and some of you think my Starship is crazy idea. Well.... let's see who is more crazy when the sun sneezing.
Thanks for the interesting information, Dara O'Briain
Nice shirt!
yea, good thing we are now totally dependent on our satellites for communications which are now the only way for financial transactions to occur and the distribution of goods and services. what could possibly go wrong ?
Lol. 2020. Maybe we can combine a CME with a well timed pole reversal event.
@william dohn benevolent et 's, they would make you think they are not xx
That could be potentially lethal. In a pole reversal, the field it potentially at its weakest...exposing the surface to more charged particles from the sun and space.
william dohn - There are no leather goddesses of Phobos.
As long as I have my tea
This is why the civilisations that came before our version of mankind utilised crystal technology. The Great pyramid being a prime example.
So you're telling me theres two coronas we have to worry about?
So if you were to shut off the power to your home and unplug all electronics at home will you be able to save your electronics??
This reminds me of the flashback scene in Assassin's Creed called the Toba Catastrophe
My dad flew a hydrogen baloon with aluminium foil attached to it into a Powerline as a child.
@DeeJay1210 The transformer blew up
Are these events classed for Blake, Krystle or Alexis-es? How about Ewing levels? JR or Bobbys?
Now let's do one on the grand solar minimum we are entering! Start growing foody foods yall
Note to self: when I see an aurora here in Germany we're in trouble.
1938 Hitler in his manson in Bavaria saw red light looked like Aurora Borealis. He said to his colleagues : it is time to spread blood
Even so, you are in trouble Germany. Not from one star, but from many on a blue background.
Probably not. I remember seeing the aurora when I lived in northern Nevada at around 40° North latitude back in 2003. It was one of the largest solar storm events of the space age, and I can't find any references to any major damage being caused by it. There was an hour long blackout in Sweden, and some satellites were damaged, but that was about it.
Since most of Germany is above 47°N, you would be able to see auroras caused by even weaker storms.
Germany wouldn’t be that bad. Mexico and the Caribbean, though? That’s nuts.
I can just see you, walking out and glancing up in the sky and just giving a deep sigh and thinking "well shit".
Pretty much any question beginning with "are we ready for", the answer is a resounding hell no!
Immediately after reading this the 1st thing that came to mind of me telling the guys that the wife is on her way back home.
And afterwards the question to follow would be, "but did you die?"
@@SagaciousDjinn What?
@@Marinealver That could be the follow up question to "were we ready for...", and is pointless considering you already know the answer.
More appropriately, you should be asking "how many would die?"
@@trabladorr Zero. We are ready. Simple. ;-)
So you're tellin' me, a Carrington level solar storm would mean no more double ads on TH-cam? 🤔 I'm a glass half full kind of guy! 🤣🤣🤣
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Lmao ! Great reply
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Based on all the places I have worked and all the people I have worked with, we are not prepared and it will be a matter of how competent we are at dealing with the aftermath.
Love you’re work, thank you.
Humans have always been good at picking up the pieces and rebuilding can only hope we're willing to do it again.
Even a blast like starfish prime could be a serious event. Are we ready? Heck no. While a small amount of government and military systems are shielded, it is too expensive to be used by almost any company.
I work on the electrical grid every day, he is a little confused on some stuff. We use a devise, and I mean millions of them the don’t let this stuff happen. If we have a big storm nothing really bad will happen. And when I say million of them I mean millions in ever city.
@Ярослав Л Careful, it's a trick. When they see the next large CME, 15 hours later they will turn all the North and South grids off, isolate the breakers and then wait for the pulse to pass by. Then they will wait a few hours to see what you do.......... O^O How's that for sneaky?