The Sun Advantages And Disadvantages

The 2003 Northeast Blackout was a two-day nightmare that spanned from New York to Canada. This incredible event was not due to a storm, but computer and human error; affecting over fifty million people with estimated losses up to ten billion dollars and 11 deaths (Walsh, 2013)! A loss of power turns inconvenience into a life-changing event when food in the refrigerator spoils, public transportation is useless, gas pumps are inoperable, and dark streets increase fear and anxiety. Even though power outages are a fact of life, few economies are equipped or prepared to provide their own power. The current appetite for electricity is pushing decaying electronic grids and antiquated software to limits with no sign of waning (Halsey, 2012). As the demand to produce more power grows, this increases the amount of pollution as well as disasters-massive power outages and catastrophic oil spills. The inefficient methods of fossil fuel production coupled with increased power demands are polluting the air, land, and water; creating unhealthy economies and ecosystems. Harnessing renewable alternative energy from nature is a smarter, dependable, and generous source of power that is non-polluting and will be available when current power sources are unavailable. Solar power is a healthier alternative power choice that supports fluctuating ecosystems, promotes healthy economic

This paper talks about the solar flares and how they go on to cause global warming. Global warming has been an ongoing phenomenon and there are many reasons it has occurred. Apart from the green house effect, global warming could have been due to the solar flares that have occurred. Different researches and theories regarding this matter are discussed in the paper.

3. Solar Flares: these are ejections of large volumes of gas. They can sometimes head our way causing radio interference and auroras.

Despite the amounts of incoming radiation, very little actually reaches the Earth’s surface. One layer of protection the Earth provides is in the form of a magnetic field that deflects charged particles from reaching the Earth’s surface. This magnetic field is generated by a combination of the liquids within the Earth’s core and the interplanetary magnetic field generated by the Sun. This field reaches out thousands of miles from Earth, so when solar wind travels through space and encounters Earth’s

When an 9.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Japan on March 11th, 2011, it was the first of a series of horrific events that Japan would be forced to endure. Many homes, families, properties, and belongings were lost on that day. And when the tsunami rolled over the island, many believed that it was over for them. Not only had people’s lives been put in disarray and desolation, but there had not even been simple necessities available. Food. Water. Communications. And electricity. When the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had been hit by the earthquake and tsunami, the reactors were shut down and so was the electricity. Over the course of months the reactors suffered, extreme heat, fires, hydrogen explosions, and radiation exposures. At the time,

A colossal and history making massive blackout occurred in August 14, 2003 across the region of US and Canada affecting around 50 million people who lost access to power and were deprived of basic amenities. They were forced to sleep on the road. Millions and millions of people were caught by surprise when the electrical grid suddenly crashed. It shut down a hundred power plants. It took 29 hours for the power to turn back on for the major cities. But the brief outage caused an estimated $6.4 billion economic losses.

Moreover, High-Frequency Auroral Research Program (thus known as Project HAARP) has a program that existed from 1993 through 2013 before being suspended due to funds; however, the operation was handed over from the United States Air Force to the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The group’s research consisted of learning about what would be the aftermath of shooting beams of radiation directly into Earth’s ionosphere. (Bsumek and Frederick-Rothwell,1) The impacts of this beam would be towards moisture particles and free electrons in the ionosphere, which would be able to change weather patterns in theory. Currently, there are at least 21 HAARP arrays around the world, which when working together, could certainly change the weather in any place on Earth. (Darin,1) Therefore, it comes as no surprise the mankind could one day achieve the complete control over the world that is so prominent in everyday life found within The Giver.

In the year 2065, climate change on Earth has spiraled out of control and nations are now fighting for new real estate in space to begin colonization. Mars had been a likely candidate for many years now and was becoming a massive fighting ground for numerous nations. However, it’s arid landscape and small size made it a questionable choice to some. More adventurous and risk-taking politicians urged their researchers to aim for Pluto or planets outside of our solar system. Feeling modern technology was not yet ready for such long distance travel, the United States has chosen to look toward the asteroid belt. As they are setting off, researchers will monitor sunspots to help forecast the behavior of the sun and predict coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Solar-powered sails will make use of solar wind for the early journey after leaving Earth. Radioisotope thermoelectric

Sunspots are generated by strong and dense magnetic fields, and these magnetic fields are caused by flowing plasma that gets tangled and moves through the photosphere. [1] However, it is not actually sunspot activity that effects the Earth’s power grid and satellite communications, [2] but rather the solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that can be caused by sunspots that cause problems. [3]

Repairing such damage would leave the American population devastated; forcing an immediate 50-year setback to the societal way of life. The repairs would take an precedented amount of time because of the complexity of the problem, beginning with mustering the labor to perform the work, then restoring the critical equipment to start the work in the first place in another concern. Throughout the United States, there are some 2,000 High Voltage Power Transformers (HVPT)s. Many are made overseas, so acquisition may prove to be complicated post-strike. They are extremely heavy at 410 tons and can cost $2,000,000 to $10,000,000 each with a production lead time of six to sixteen months (Parfomak, Paul W., author, 2014, p.04). There is no guarantee that the crippled United States would have to logistical means to obtain such equipment and then install it. -------This type of attack is could come any nuclear-armed country such as North Korea, that has a demonstrated a nuclear capability, but the delivery system such Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) technology has not matured to successfully having the warhead survived the intense stress of reentry of the Earth’s atmosphere. The EMP is the next best option short of an actual ground strike if the intent is more to disrupt

In 1945, Joseph Henry and Stephen Alexander, professors from Princeton University, discovered that sunspots emitted less radiation than surrounding areas of the sun. This is because the Sun’s outer shell, the photosphere, behaves as plasma, which is a very good conductor of electricity, and interacts with the magnetic fields of sunspots. The plasma slows down and cools to 1000 K less than the surrounding photosphere which makes it look darker than the surrounding areas. These areas were concentrated magnetic fields appear, are usually part of a loop, as sunspots generally present in pairs which line up parallel to the equator, showing a magnetic polarity. The sunspots in each hemisphere have the opposite polarity to the other. Over the 11 year cycle, the whole polarity reverses as the new set of sunspots form away from the Sun’s equator. Therefore, a complete 22 year cycle returns the polarity to its original

More than one million users of the electric services were without service and three days after the event only 38% of services had been restored. Damage to the electrical services included 1,300 transformers, 5 transmission lines, 8 substations and 600 light

storms, powerlines and trees are a huge bother people will be needed to help get the electricity up

A lightning strike to the power lines local to your home can send a powerful

Solar modulation of galactic cosmic rays (GCR) has been a subject of intense research, especially to assess the continuously changing behaviour of the sun and its influence on cosmic rays. This modulation of GCR intensity associated with ~11-year solar activity cycle has been studied from past several decades (e.g., Forbush, 1954; Burlaga et al., 1985; Venkatesan and Badruddin, 1990; Storini et al., 1995; Sabbah and Rybansky, 2006; Kudela, 2009; Ahluwalia et al., 2010; Heber, 2013; Chowdhury, Kudela, and Dwivedi, 2013; and references therein). The long-term GCR modulation shows ~22-year cycle related to the solar magnetic cycle as the solar polarity reverses near solar maximum of very activity cycle; the polarity dependant effects on cosmic rays have also been an area of active research (e.g., Jokipii, Levy, and Hubbard, 1977; Potgieter and Moraal, 1985; Smith and Thomas, 1986; Cliver and Ling, 2001; Kota 2013; Potgieter, 2014; Laurenza et al., 2014; Potgieter et al., 2014; Thomas, Owens, and Lockwood, 2014; Thomas et al., 2014; and references therein).