Phys.org  May 24, 2021 The danger of solar storms is not hypothetical. In 2017, a solar storm caused ham radios to turn to static, in 2015 solar storms knocked out global positioning systems in the U.S. Northeast, a particular concern as self-driving cars become a reality. According to a 2017 paper in the journal of the American Geophysical Union predicted blackouts caused by severe space weather could strike as much as 66% of the U.S. population, with economic losses reaching a potential $41.5 billion a day. To shield vulnerable parts of the planet’s infrastructure from the effects of solar storms […]