No, we’re not wearing tinfoil hats over here at India Ink — so-called “solar storms,” or magnetic eruptions on the sun’s surface, have been known to take down electricity grids before, most notably in Quebec in 1989. And, as it turns out, this year is a year of heightened solar activity.
“The ferocity and pace of the Sun’s flares and magnetic eruptions rise and fall on an 11-year cycle, and the Sun has only recently emerged from its slumber and started generating new solar flares,” Kenneth Chang wrote in The New York Times in March. …..gesamten Artikel weiterlesen http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/did-solar-storms-cause-indias-massive-blackout/
