A recent story at Wired shows us a particularly frightening reason we should look into making our own electricity at home: coronal mass ejections (CMEs). What's a CME? They start by using a night club
, but I’ll sum it up here. The storm was so severe that auroras weren’t only seen near the poles like usual. People as far away as the equator were able to see the skies light up at night. People in the city were able to read newspapers by the light of the storm, while people working at mines in the American west got up and started cooking breakfast, thinking that the sun was fixing to come up .
In some ways, this kind of electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, isn’t as bad as they make it out to be in Hollywood and in books. When there’s that kind of energy in the air, whether from bad space weather or from man-made causes, like a high-altitude nuclear explosion, TV would have you believe that nothing electronic survives. The truth is, most things would survive, but wouldn’t have a power grid to supply them.
There are several approaches, and they’re going to vary depending on your budget and whether you own your home.
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