Do that persons who write that garbage doom articles know that unlike power grid internet today use optical glass fiber links, and all equipment that could potentially be damaged by solar storm electromagrnetic waves resides at least in buildings built from steel reinforced concrete that is enough to be a Faraday cage for sensitive devices. Really, most datacenters have even more serious means of protection.
Power greed is kind of wulnerable for solar storms because of length of conductors that act as an antenna large enough to receive that huge but slow electromagnetic splash. Internet infrastructure just don't have long enough conductors to produce any noticeable currents that could somehow interfere with it. Glass fibers are not conductive, so any solar storm is absolutlely nothing for them.
Even if power grid will be shut down (unlikely, since power grid today have much more protection circuits and devices than one of Carrington even times), internet datacenters will just switch to diesel generators for power, which are must have for anything that slightly resemble datacenter.
And no, there could not be weeks or months even if something goes absolutely wrong. In the worst case most power grid will be up and running within few days maximum.
So to turn internet off, solar storm have to not only damage power grid, but also somehow destroy fuel supply chain. As far as I know, it is human elites that are trying to destroy fuel supply, not solar flares.
All in all, this doomsday predictions looks more like programming for possible intentional and forced internet shutdown by elites. And even in that case, that will not be total outage, at best they will shutdown large corporations like google/amazon/microsoft and cellular providers. But smaller independent providers will still be able to maintain connectivity and basic services. This "internet shutdown" thing looks more like shooting in own foot, than like some attempt to stop spreading of some information.
But, just imagine internet without all that shitty corporations and their attempts to control it. That would be awesome.
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. :)
Do that persons who write that garbage doom articles know that unlike power grid internet today use optical glass fiber links, and all equipment that could potentially be damaged by solar storm electromagrnetic waves resides at least in buildings built from steel reinforced concrete that is enough to be a Faraday cage for sensitive devices. Really, most datacenters have even more serious means of protection.
Power greed is kind of wulnerable for solar storms because of length of conductors that act as an antenna large enough to receive that huge but slow electromagnetic splash. Internet infrastructure just don't have long enough conductors to produce any noticeable currents that could somehow interfere with it. Glass fibers are not conductive, so any solar storm is absolutlely nothing for them.
Even if power grid will be shut down (unlikely, since power grid today have much more protection circuits and devices than one of Carrington even times), internet datacenters will just switch to diesel generators for power, which are must have for anything that slightly resemble datacenter.
And no, there could not be weeks or months even if something goes absolutely wrong. In the worst case most power grid will be up and running within few days maximum.
So to turn internet off, solar storm have to not only damage power grid, but also somehow destroy fuel supply chain. As far as I know, it is human elites that are trying to destroy fuel supply, not solar flares.
All in all, this doomsday predictions looks more like programming for possible intentional and forced internet shutdown by elites. And even in that case, that will not be total outage, at best they will shutdown large corporations like google/amazon/microsoft and cellular providers. But smaller independent providers will still be able to maintain connectivity and basic services. This "internet shutdown" thing looks more like shooting in own foot, than like some attempt to stop spreading of some information.
But, just imagine internet without all that shitty corporations and their attempts to control it. That would be awesome.
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. :)