20-06-2011, 01:47 PM
|
 |
Member > 10year club
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Central Coast NSW
Posts: 3,339
|
|
|
Brits to shut grid for solar flare
Just saw this today.
Thought it may be worthy of publication here.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Publication: The Australian (p6, Mon 20 Jun 2011)
Britain is preparing to invoke emergency powers to turn off its electricity to shield the country from the worst effects of the biggest solar flare in 150 years. The British government has been warned that a massive surge of energy from the sun could hit the Earth in the next 18 months. In a worst-case scenario, it could blow out the national grid and leave parts of the country without electricity for months.
|
|