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Power Outage—It Came From Outer Space
Author(s) -
Light Kevan M.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
opflow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8701.1998.tb02103.x
Subject(s) - solar flare , space (punctuation) , the internet , power (physics) , space weather , solar power , telecommunications , electrical engineering , outer space , aerospace engineering , computer science , environmental science , physics , meteorology , engineering , astrophysics , world wide web , operating system , quantum mechanics
This article draws a correlation between solar flares and power surges and outages. It lists the US Space Environment Center (SEC) internet web site as a source of solar activity information to give early warning of solar events significant enough to cause electrical disturbances.