{"id":1018,"date":"2009-03-27T13:14:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T13:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2009\/03\/27\/electrical-power-grid-to-be-blasted-by-2012-solar-storms\/"},"modified":"2009-03-27T13:14:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T13:14:17","slug":"electrical-power-grid-to-be-blasted-by-2012-solar-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/electrical-power-grid-to-be-blasted-by-2012-solar-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrical power grid to be blasted by 2012 solar storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner%7Ey2009m3d27-Electrical-power-grid-to-be-blasted-by-2012-solar-storms\" target=\"_blank\">Electrical power grid to be blasted by 2012 solar storms<\/a><\/h1>\n<div style=\"width: 330px;\">\n<div style=\"width: 35px; float: left; padding-right: 5px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>March 27, 2:56 AM <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner%7Ey2009m3d27-Electrical-power-grid-to-be-blasted-by-2012-solar-storms#comments\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; font-size: 10px; color: #333333;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"267\" src=\"http:\/\/image.examiner.com\/images\/blog\/wysiwyg\/image\/Nikola-Tesla.JPG\" width=\"200\" \/><br \/> Nikola Tesla, circa. 1896. Photo: Wikipedia<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/catalog.php?record_id=12507\" target=\"_blank\">A report<\/a><br \/>\nissued by the National Research Council (NRC) in January 2009 has<br \/>\nwarned of the far reaching consequences of a solar storm hitting the<br \/>\nEarth as the sun becomes more active during solar cycle 24 which began<br \/>\nin 2008 and peaks around 2012. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20127001.300-space-storm-alert-90-seconds-from-catastrophe.html?full=true\" target=\"_blank\">March 23 article<\/a><br \/>\nin the New Scientist discussed the significance of the NRC report which<br \/>\ndetails how a solar storm could wipe out the electrical power grid<br \/>\ncausing massive disruption in the U.S. and around the planet.&#0160; The<br \/>\nimpact of the plasma energy directly bombarding the Earth during a<br \/>\nsolar storm could lead to electrical power stations being off line for<br \/>\nweeks and months at a time, as overworked workers try to repair badly<br \/>\ndamaged electrical equipment <strong>&#8230; <\/strong>Now<br \/>\nis the right time for bold action to<br \/>\nreplace the outdated electrical power grid with a decentralized form of<br \/>\nfuelless or &#39;new energy&#39; generators that can be mass produced for<br \/>\nhomes,<br \/>\nsmall businesses and essential services.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>continued: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner%7Ey2009m3d27-Electrical-power-grid-to-be-blasted-by-2012-solar-storms\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-<wbr \/>2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-<wbr \/>Examiner~y2009m3d27-<wbr \/>Electrical-power-grid-to-be-<wbr \/>blasted-by-2012-solar-storms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}