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TIL 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)
submitted 1 year ago by garfaagel@sh.itjust.works to c/til@lemmy.ca
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[–] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] dave@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find your excess of faith disturbing…

[–] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] fubbernuckin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Bold of you to assume they're worrying about it.

[–] LaSaucisseMasquee@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah that worked super well with Covid.

[–] scarecrow365@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
  • laughs in Texas *
[–] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

God bless the Eastern Interconnection lol

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Being proactive for risks that are small for the near term is expensive, and not very profitable for the shareholders.