Bill Nye breaks down solar storm

Science educator Bill Nye breaks down the massive geomagnetic storm hitting Earth and its significance. #CNN #News

[rebekah]

I feel like I’m learning about this super late 😅

[Mars]

I’m in Michigan. Lower peninsula. All my life and I’ve never seen the northern lights DIRECTLY ABOVE me. This is incredible

[wrath]

the amount of people who don’t even know what a solar flare is until now is insane lol

[SilentEdgeTv]

I grew up on Bill Nye since i was kid in the 90s and he can still break down science so that i can understand whats going on 😅.

[DanielAguiardeMelo]

My goodness… reporters can’t understand the risk of this

[TheTanman]

No mention of how having solar & battery storage can allow you to still create power, especially if it’s portable. Every one should have a portable power station of atleast 250wh and atleast a 100 watt solar panel for emergencies, stored in your garage- much less likely to be damaged by a solar storm which would predominately affect transformers. If you get a 1kWh battery/inverter portable station, you can make a few miles a day for your EV or run your house basic needs. Also keep in mind many EV charging stations have their own independent battery storage for power in case of emergencies. The main incentive being to buy and store excess solar energy in the afternoon and sell it to customers at peak demand in the evening.

[Mr.Peepers]

I'm in St Louis and I haven't seen anything yet. They showed it on the local news just above the horizon. Maybe I'm just in a bad location. Hope everyone else has better luck.

[TNTOutdoorsU]

Saw the aurora here in North Texas! Posted a beautiful pic of it.
Aside from the possible negative impacts, honestly this is very cool!👍😁

[edgarross]

Bill Nye has got to be one of the most likeable people ever

[jaisheh]

that’s so funny.. i was looking up to see if he made a video about this as a kid that i may had forgotten about LOL. you never miss papa bill, also TWU for being early!

[JenShea]

Thank you for interviewing this man! He is a Legend! Explains things in ways we can all try to understand… especially those of us that did not learn this in science class.
As crazy as it is, I live north of Ottawa, Canada and sadly it was completely cloudy last night and not possible to see any of what happened. A bit heartbreaking for sure!

[lesromanchuk]

No electricity could knock us back to some really dark times

[josephdonais]

I saw the lights as a kid camping in Maine back in the 70s.
A great green spiral from horizon to horizon directly above me as I lay under the stars in my sleeping bag by the fire.
*Note: The news casters actually gave Bill time to speak. That is just as impressive!

[sinisterintelligence]

We here in Tallahassee got hit by a tornado and lost power. At night, I noticed that the sky was unusually bright! Wow! Can't believe I saw my first aurora!!!

[Anthony-Soprano]

everytime they played bill nye during science class in elemetary school it never made me more happy

[dmac]

More specifically, these solar storms eject charged particles in large amounts in coronal mass ejections (CMEs). If they hit the Earth's magnetic field, electromagnetic pulses are generated (EMPs). EMPs can be devastating because they will induce an electric current in anything that can conduct electricity. If you have a large enough CME, you could see large scale EMP's occur which would knock out power generation and transmission equipment.

[catalinacurio]

My niece took some amazing pics in Wales of this last night, incredible.

[JamesVivada]

I wanted to focus more on the fact about the telegraph comparison again they did not have 12 v or 6 volt converter boxes to cut the power 2 and acceptable current.

[dm-]

Super interesting. Thank you for having Bill Nye, The science guy on CNN.🎉

[andrewandres]

Why did he not mention how weak the magnetic field is right now on earth? Crickets of the fools on