Sentence examples for solar blasts from inspiring English sources

In March 1989 two smaller solar blasts shut down most of the grid in Quebec, leaving millions of customers without power for nine hours.

The Northern Lights occur when solar blasts send charged particles streaming towards earth's magnetic poles, where they collide with atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, causing them to glow.

By scientific consensus, solar blasts will next climax in frequency and ferocity late in 2012 or early 2013.

Whatever the mechanism, it's awfully sporting of old Sol to give us the heads-up on any solar blasts he might be sending our way.

On October 27, 2009, President Obama announced that $3.4 billion in grants from the federal stimulus program would be allocated to updating the power grid, though not a penny is earmarked for protection from solar blasts.

According to Severe Space Weather Events: Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts, a landmark report prepared jointly by the National Academy of Sciences and NASA in 2008, our civilization is indeed in grave danger of losing its power supply; in the U.S. alone, up to 130 million of us could be forced to go without electricity for months or years due to solar blasts.

On March 13,1989, two solar blasts each about a tenth the size of the ones that hit in 1859 and 1921 knocked out the Hydro-Quebec electrical utility, causing it to go from fully operational to complete shutdown in 92 seconds.

Last year, my friend Nancy bought me one of its customized Solar Blast candles for my birthday.