Nuclear Engineer reacts to Kurzgesagt 'Could Solar Storms Destroy Civilization?'

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[playlikepig]

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[georgesgamingchannel]

Cool video, I honestly did not know that it was true that power grids operate with a frecuency. The last time I saw that was in the later parts of a game called Infra.

[moozoowizard]

Anything connected to a long length of wire risks getting fried. The biggest risk as I understand it is the substations, pole transformers and consumer devices connected to power. The surge comes in both ways not just from the power station side. How many substation and pole transformers can be electrically isolated from the power lines on both sides. In and out.

[MatterBaby]

maybe this is why all those tech people started building bunkers out of no where this year. maybe we're past 50% in 2024

[ArkhamHedler]

If gamma radiation had a color it would be closer to purple, because it is a high frequency electromagnetic wave, I think everyone should know the spectrum of electromagnetic waves, radio, microwave, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma, the last color of visible light is purple, so if UV, x-ray and gamma had a color it would be close to purple and not green lol.

[jasonnchuleft]

To be honest the biggest impact we can expect from CMEs and similar is actually the satellite grid being knocked out. Might take a couple of years to get the broken units replaced so in the worst case stuff like GPS might not work in some regions for a while. This would also affect some remote computer systems that rely on satellite communcation to work (eg. GPS as RTC sync, NTP, etc.). The weather stations on the poles would probably be the hardest hit. So all in all as long as noone sleeps at their jobs and ignores escalation and safety procedures nothing too crazy should happen, really.