@garfaagel to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca • 9 months agoTIL that in 2012 a large solar storm nearly missed Earth by a margin of nine days. If it hit, it could have caused damages to a cost of around $2.6 trillion.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square24arrow-up1162arrow-down18
arrow-up1154arrow-down1external-linkTIL that in 2012 a large solar storm nearly missed Earth by a margin of nine days. If it hit, it could have caused damages to a cost of around $2.6 trillion.en.wikipedia.org@garfaagel to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca • 9 months agomessage-square24
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•9 months agoWould we? I remember reading Ted Koppel’s book Lights Out a few years ago, but I’d assume that utilities, grid operators, and governments have been making efforts to improve grid resilience
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish18•9 months agoI find your excess of faith disturbing…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•9 months agoHaha it’s less an excess of faith- more like someone else gets paid to worry about it, so i’m not gonna stress myself out for free
minus-squareFubber Nuckin'linkfedilink11•9 months agoBold of you to assume they’re worrying about it.
minus-squareRhaedaslinkfedilink4•9 months agoBeing proactive for risks that are small for the near term is expensive, and not very profitable for the shareholders.
Would we? I remember reading Ted Koppel’s book Lights Out a few years ago, but I’d assume that utilities, grid operators, and governments have been making efforts to improve grid resilience
I find your excess of faith disturbing…
Haha it’s less an excess of faith- more like someone else gets paid to worry about it, so i’m not gonna stress myself out for free
Bold of you to assume they’re worrying about it.
Yeah that worked super well with Covid.
God bless the Eastern Interconnection lol
Being proactive for risks that are small for the near term is expensive, and not very profitable for the shareholders.
Lol