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A large solar storm could knock out the power grid and the internet – an electrical engineer explains how

  • Written by David Wallace, Assistant Clinical Professor of Electrical Engineering, Mississippi State University
A large solar storm could knock out the power grid and the internet – an electrical engineer explains howTypical amounts of solar particles hitting the earth's magnetosphere can be beautiful, but too much could be catastrophic.Svein-Magne Tunli - tunliweb.no/Wikimedia, CC BY-NC-SA

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