Texas A&M: Overbye Creates First-Of-Its-Kind Texas Magnetometer Network
October 29, 2020
October 29, 2020
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Oct. 29 (TNSRes) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news:
In 1989, a geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) event in Quebec left six million people without power for nine hours. The disturbance caused seven of the electrical devices used to regulate voltage in the grid, the static VAR compensators, to be tripped within 59 seconds, causing a voltage collapse 25 seconds later. GMD events continue to occur and, when they do, ca . . .
In 1989, a geomagnetic disturbance (GMD) event in Quebec left six million people without power for nine hours. The disturbance caused seven of the electrical devices used to regulate voltage in the grid, the static VAR compensators, to be tripped within 59 seconds, causing a voltage collapse 25 seconds later. GMD events continue to occur and, when they do, ca . . .