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Are We Facing a Worldwide Electrical Crisis?

YOWUSA.COM, 09-November-2003
Steve Russell

It rapidly became obvious this year that the very backbone of our 21st century society is being disgracefully managed and in many cases beginning to crumble.? I am not talking oil or share markets but electricity, the only single invention from which every other piece of technology that we depend on has its roots.? Take away this network and we are literally plunged back into the dark ages.? You should be concerned to learn that governments are gambling with this grid for profit, and they have slaughtered it to the point of degradation that we are now experiencing and paying for from our wallets and quality of life.

In The News

CNN, 6 November 2003

Sun 'Mega-Flare' Was Largest On Record

The massive solar flare that erupted from the sun this week has been classified as the largest in three decades of monitoring, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Environment Center said Thursday.

The previous record holder occurred on April 2, 2001. An active region of sunspots on the solar face has spawned a number of powerful flares over the last two weeks, including the most powerful one on Tuesday and third largest salvo on record on October 28.

"Just as solar scientists were ready to start breathing normally again, active region 10486 blasted off yet another mega-flare," Paal Brekke of the European Space Agency said of the November 4th flare. ? "This one saturated the X-ray detectors on the NOAA's GOES satellites that monitor the sun."

iUniverse.com, Nov 7, 2003
It's Official, That Was an X28 Flare

It has just been announced that the massive solar X-ray flare which occurred on 4 November was, at best estimate, an X28. There is still a small chance this will be revised by a small amount, but it is now official: We have a new number 1 X-ray flare for the record books, the most powerful in recorded observational history.

On Tuesday, 4 November 2003, this flare saturated the X-ray detectors on several monitoring satellites. The associated coronal mass ejection (CME) came out of the Sun's surface at about 2300 kilometres per second (8.2 million km/h). Only part of the CME is directed towards Earth, so we expect the Earth will receive only a glancing blow, since the source region is pointing away from us on the right on the limb of the Sun as seen from Earth.

Paul D. Spudis, Lunar and Planetary Institute
The Moon: America's Renewed Focus In Space Exploration

Testimony of Dr. Paul D. Spudis at the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space, Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing on "Lunar Exploration"

Dr. Paul D. Spudis
Planetary Scientist
Lunar and Planetary Institute
November 6, 2003

Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me here today to testify on the subject of lunar exploration and the US space program.

I want to discuss a new destination for America in space - the Moon. Although we conducted our initial visits to that body over 30 years ago, we have recently made several important discoveries that indicate a return to the Moon offers many advantages and benefits to the nation. In addition to being a scientifically rich object for study, the Moon offers abundant material and energy resources, the feedstock of an industrial space infrastructure. Once established, such an infrastructure will revolutionize space travel, assuring us of continuous, routine access to cislunar space (i.e., the space between and around Earth and Moon) and beyond. The value of the Moon as a space destination has not escaped the notice of other countries - at least four new robotic missions are currently being flown or prepared by Europe, India, Japan, and China and advanced planning for human missions in many of these countries is already underway.