Solar storm knocks out farmers’ high-tech tractors – an electrical engineer explains how a larger storm could take down the power grid and the internet

Typical 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 – By David Wallace, Assistant Clinical Professor of Electrical Engineering, Mississippi State University Updated: 2024 May 13 – The …