And what's up with end user? Today final mile is fiber too. It will be just a question of end user intellect, if he will be able to power up his router and computers in abscence of mains power. Normal people have UPS for their computer tech. Rural inhabitants for shure have gas/gasoline/diesel generators. Others should suffer.
But the computer in the house or cell phone is unprotected. I agree the infrastructure will be viable, but who keeps a backup computer in a faraday cage?
But the computer in the house or cell phone is unprotected.
They are too small in size to receive solar storm pulse. There is no length to induce any significant current. Only way devices of suc size could be affected by solar storm is when they are on the orbit, and even in that case it is not electromagnetic, but just high energy charged particles interfere with electronics. Since we are covered by atmosphere, this charged particles could not reach your computer/phone, all you will get in the worst case is aurora flares high in the sky.
Of course, there could be some interference with radio frequesnces for the duration of solar storm, but radio noise could not damage your devices too.
Solar storm is not like microwave oven irradiating everything on the Earth surface. It is like one period of powerful ultralow frequency wave. It will induce huge unwanted currents in the miles long power lines, but will do nothing with objects of computer/phone size. Size matters, despite any feministic propaganda. :)
Yet you think everyone has state of the art internet?! Are you lying about that, or lying about where you live? One of the biggest complaints is that internet companies keep taking grants to provide internet to areas, don't do their job, AGAIN... And still get another grant to do nothing.
You've forgotten the end user.
And what's up with end user? Today final mile is fiber too. It will be just a question of end user intellect, if he will be able to power up his router and computers in abscence of mains power. Normal people have UPS for their computer tech. Rural inhabitants for shure have gas/gasoline/diesel generators. Others should suffer.
But the computer in the house or cell phone is unprotected. I agree the infrastructure will be viable, but who keeps a backup computer in a faraday cage?
They are too small in size to receive solar storm pulse. There is no length to induce any significant current. Only way devices of suc size could be affected by solar storm is when they are on the orbit, and even in that case it is not electromagnetic, but just high energy charged particles interfere with electronics. Since we are covered by atmosphere, this charged particles could not reach your computer/phone, all you will get in the worst case is aurora flares high in the sky.
Of course, there could be some interference with radio frequesnces for the duration of solar storm, but radio noise could not damage your devices too.
Solar storm is not like microwave oven irradiating everything on the Earth surface. It is like one period of powerful ultralow frequency wave. It will induce huge unwanted currents in the miles long power lines, but will do nothing with objects of computer/phone size. Size matters, despite any feministic propaganda. :)
You clearly live in a city.
You miss. I live deep in a forest. :)
Yet you think everyone has state of the art internet?! Are you lying about that, or lying about where you live? One of the biggest complaints is that internet companies keep taking grants to provide internet to areas, don't do their job, AGAIN... And still get another grant to do nothing.
This isn't even new.