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Do you think the cloud of ash in 2010 was bad? A super solar storm is expected shortly and will be worse consequenses!

A Super Thunder in the surface of the Sun can have catastrophic consequences.

Vast areas of the Earth can be deleted. Electronics, GPS and mobile networks may collapse, warns NASA.

A super powerful sun storm, scientists believe that size happens once per century, can be part of the electricity network in the world to reduce in the coming years, says NASA. Positioning System, satellites, aerospace, mobile communications – electronics short everything that we have almost become addicted in the modern world – can suffer in periods when the sun should move to another peak of activity in 2013.

The sun slips now a depth alarm, and we see a high level of activity in the coming years. In the same time, our technological know-how developed the society a very sensitivity to the storm, the sun, "said the chief of the division of the Sun NASA physics, Richard Fisher.

Every 11 years, the sun is called the maximum solar, where the number of sunspots and violent explosions, called flares increases. They release energy equivalent several billion tons of TNT pr second.

The explosions emit intense radiation and large quantities of high energy particles, which can damage electronic components and get the satellite to lose altitude.

strongest storm ever recorded in Sun took place in 1859, and leading to the Northern Lights so powerful that people believed that cities were in flames.

At that time, only a compass and telegraph altered, however, the storm had held great today, could have consequences far more destructive. Scientists take the threat of a repetition seriously.

It is unlikely to happen again. The consequences can be much more than food is broken, which is serious. It is possible that in a year before everything works again.

So, how can society function with reduced power? For example, hospitals and sewage treatment facilities can not operate with diesel for a long time.

Mr Fisher NASA considers months without electricity in many areas the world is unlikely, but the hours and days is a credible scenario. This applies particularly in northern Europe which has a fragile power grid, she told the Daily Telegraph.

Scientists, politicians and legislators met in June 2010 at a conference in Washington DC to discuss and prepare for the threat, as our society becomes increasingly dependent on technology very fragile.

It is impossible to say whether the experience will make a great storm coming in 1859 years or several hundred years from now. They are not on a regular basis Sun storms that are sufficiently strong enough to cause considerable damage and the consequences on earth.

We certainly lost by the powerful sun storm in the near future. They been there, but we have never been more dependent on electronics, and as vulnerable as now.

In April 2010, Satellite damaged by a zombie the sun came out tight rope and threatened to destroy the television signals. A solar storm in 1989 knocked out power Quebec in Canada, and the LEDs south to north Florida.

In 1998, 80 percent of all pagers in the United States lost network when Galaxy IV was struck by satellite, and solar storm October 28, 2003 has reached more than 20 satellites, giving a blackout in Sweden, disrupt communications and air traffic has led to a warning of danger increasing the impact of passengers on the plane.

Do you think the cloud ash from Iceland this year was bad? The magnetic storm can be much more damaging to air traffic.

Although human beings on Earth are protected by the atmosphere and magnetosphere eaten by the "invisible shield against particles – Thousands of live satellite dangerous.

In particular, satellites in low orbit are vulnerable, as is often said that did not survive solar maximum. In addition, satellites are becoming smaller components, so that only one particle collides creates more damage than a decade ago.

Sun Storm threatens not only the electronics, but also leads to satellites fall to five kilometers of the orbit. Here are more particles ambient, resulting in increased drag and drop the additional height.

I believe we are entering a new era where the weather space can have as much impact on daily life as usual time on Earth. We take it very seriously, "said Mr. Fisher of NASA.

The researchers said that preparations for a sun storm is like other natural disasters. We know they are future, but it is difficult to strike. The economy received a severe blow. A powerful sun storm can cost 20 times more than Hurricane Katrina, according to a report published in 2008. Katrina, the costliest natural disaster in the United States, has caused damage of about $ 100 million.

Some of these injuries are preventable with good service called space weather alert can take precautions so vulnerable. Instruments board satellites can be turned off and power companies can reduce the load on the network and reduce the risk of failure.

But the problem is that weather forecasting services space are notoriously difficult and uncertain. It is based on a probability storm rages, but often do not know with certainty before the radiation of protons and hit us showers. Then it is too late.
We do not understand many process in the sun which gives rise to that event.

A series of satellites were sent to monitor and improve the understanding of the sun. Last Addition, Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), opened his eyes and sent back pictures for the first time in April 2010. SDO will change our understanding of the sun and processes that affect our lives. The mission will have an enormous impact on research, on par with the Hubble telescope has been for modern astrophysics, "Said Richard Fisher, NASA.

A recent report warned that the U.S. NASA have forgotten the power of the sun, creating a society sensitive technology as never before a massive infrastructure damage from solar storms.

The study, conducted for NASA by the National Academy of Sciences USA, does not predict a new solar or environmental disaster.
In contrast, studies the effects of natural sunlight, the cyclical behavior of modern technology.

Professor Daniel Baker is Director of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics and Space University of Colorado and chaired the committee that prepared the report.

"I is disaster land or extreme events of space weather, "Baker wrote in a statement released with the report," the results can be devastating modern societies, which depend on a multitude of ways of advanced technology systems. "

By the report, the U.S. has become so dependent on modern technology, without regard for what the sun can and must do, which is the main risk communications, finance, transportation, government and even the collapse of emergency services.

And if one of the newspapers in the sun, the catastrophic storm strikes the earth the path of Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. coast, the report estimates that the damage caused by space weather Katrina could reach $ 1 or $ 2 trillion.

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Stig-Arne Kristoffersen trained civil engineer and geoscientist. He worked mainly in oil and gas since the mid-1980. He wrote a few fiction novels, in addition to being the author some literature on oil and gas sector, which act as a writer for various websites.

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