By: Mike Visser of the Earthing and Lightning Protection Association (ELPA)
This article was inspired by a presentation by Stefan Burns (geophysicist), in which he explored how increases in the energy output of the sun during solar flare activity result in higher energy levels at the ground and can ground aeroplanes and disable satellites.
This increased energy at ground level contributes to increased earthquake and volcanic activity, as well as, of course, giving rise to the aurora borealis/ australis. But that is not the part of the story we are following here; there are far more correlations that we should be aware of, and I intend to expose them here, hopefully as new material to many.
Stefan Burns raised several interesting hypotheses. One is that the planet is undergoing a significant increase in energy level (electrification), and, importantly, this increasingly higher energetic state is a consequence of many things and a cause of many things too.
That the planet is an electrical device cannot be disputed, given that we have a North and a South Pole. Both poles manifest the electromagnetic nature of reality in balance. The fact that these poles (while comparatively on opposite ends of the planet’s icy caps) move, and that movement is accelerating enormously in the last few decades, is a fact for which our science has no explanation. Worth mentioning here is that the poles flipping (swapping locations on the planet) is a matter of the geological record.
The presence of charges moving across the planet is measurable in the absence of cloud activity and is unmistakable during lightning storms, as many a corpse will confirm. Another factor justifying this viewpoint is the presence of the Schumann resonance (and its resonant frequencies), a peculiar frequency seemingly related to the speed of light and the circumference of the planet/ ionosphere. This is derived from electromagnetic waveguide theory in a spherical cavity.
Our brain is also noted to resonate with this frequency range. Take, for example, the alpha, beta, and theta we all know about. I read somewhere recently that it is time humanity learnt about frequencies and vibrations, and this applies to what we know so far. An environment where a 19 Hz frequency (or close to) is present will lead to states of emotional distress, such as fear and anxiety, even though you probably will not hear it.
A 432 Hz frequency leads to feelings of calm and relaxation, and there is some evidence that it is healing, though this has not been scientifically tested. What does have legitimacy in this field of research is psychoacoustics, because it does not associate an emotion with a frequency, but a frequency with an emotion, and we all know that data capture, definition, with funding and grants, had something to do with that.
We should all be aware of the Carrington event (CE) on 1–2 September 1859, when the sun emitted a coronal mass ejection towards Earth. This was such a significant electromagnetic impulse on the earth that telegraph wires melted between pylons, the aurora borealis was so bright that you could read a newspaper at night outside in New York, the borealis was visible at the equator, radio was knocked out, and compasses lost their effectiveness. Someone estimated that the effects on our world could easily cost in the region of USD5 trillion and cause massive global destruction and disruption. Please ensure your lightning protection systems are continually inspected, maintained, and certified, as required by the code.
Now, not wanting to be a doomsayer, but as a brother of the lightning protection fraternity, we must advise that further risk management be considered for solar particle storms. We are talking here about Miyake events – a far more energetic event than even the CE. By comparison, the 1989 Quebec blackout (collapse of the electricity grids in the area) had a Dst index (measured in nano-Teslas), with more negative values indicating greater storm severity. Quebec was -589 nT, with the CE estimated at 1,760 nT; the energetic level of a Miyake event could be up to 80 times higher than the CE. The Miyake events of 774 and 993 were both five times larger than the CE, and 14,375 years ago, there was one twice their size, which took three years to dissipate the isotope production.
Carrington-type events are predicted to occur somewhere between every 100 and 500 years, Miyake events between 400 and 2,400 years, averaging every ~1,000 years.
Miyake events are confirmed through research on the presence of cosmogenic isotopes C14, Be10, and Cl36 in tree rings and ice cores, which date and quantify the events.
The potential catastrophic consequences of something 10 times stronger than the Carrington event are frightening and warrant consideration of solutions in our centralised power generation and massive electricity distribution infrastructure. I suppose the only solution would be to beg and plead (and mostly pay) the occupiers of the moon to slip between the sun and earth on the right day at the right time, but the magnetosphere will still take an enormous hit unless they can move a bit further from the earth. If that is too much of an unlikely risk solution for you, please consult us to explore solutions for your protection requirements against the next Miyake event.
Getting off the catastrophic doom dialogue, Stefan also raised the complete lack of knowledge and awareness of the structure of the Earth’s atmosphere and its graduated constituent parts or zones, so to speak, as we get further and further away. He also mentions our lack of information or knowledge about how the interactions of these zones form part of the great system that sustains the earth and us. The good news is we can change it; we can do more research, but alas, it will take time.
There are currently over 11,000 active satellites orbiting Earth, with thousands more inactive and creating space debris. Some totals put the total number of active and inactive satellites in the region of 17,000 devices, some nuclear-powered. The number of active satellites is rapidly increasing, largely due to the Starlink constellation.
Starlink’s competitors are lining up to pollute the mesosphere further, and the question is, after we have burnt up a few thousand satellites at a specific level of our atmosphere, what will the consequences be of a layer of a now comparatively conductive region where there never used to be? Will we be able to clean it up if needed?
