Epistemic status: some errors pointed out and since disentangled in the comments. LLM-use for much of the research. I regret having published this without going through academics online first, and will do so now, and edit the post accordingly. There is surprisingly little research on solar storms’ effects on electric grids and solutions to those out there.
Note: I don’t know when this was posted, or whether you’ve subsequently updated it. I can see there are comments saying the post has significant errors, and I don’t know whether those apply to the current version.
Do you think the major errors are fixed? If so, my recommendation would be to say so explicitly with some explanation of why you think that (e.g. a link to a comment from someone who knows what they’re talking about, saying “current version seems basically correct to me”).
My plan is to do more research by asking experts (which I did not do, and is a mistake I will not repeat) and then in a few weeks/months announce an edited version that I’m confident works. I don’t feel comfortable modifying the epistemic status until this is done and multiple people for whom it’s their job to think about these things announce “yep this looks good”.
(To be clear, I don’t think the core claim of the post is wrong; for instance, it matches up with the (few) reports done on grid vulnerability to solar storms that are out there (like Lloyd’s insurance).)
Note: I don’t know when this was posted, or whether you’ve subsequently updated it. I can see there are comments saying the post has significant errors, and I don’t know whether those apply to the current version.
Do you think the major errors are fixed? If so, my recommendation would be to say so explicitly with some explanation of why you think that (e.g. a link to a comment from someone who knows what they’re talking about, saying “current version seems basically correct to me”).
My plan is to do more research by asking experts (which I did not do, and is a mistake I will not repeat) and then in a few weeks/months announce an edited version that I’m confident works. I don’t feel comfortable modifying the epistemic status until this is done and multiple people for whom it’s their job to think about these things announce “yep this looks good”.
(To be clear, I don’t think the core claim of the post is wrong; for instance, it matches up with the (few) reports done on grid vulnerability to solar storms that are out there (like Lloyd’s insurance).)
We’ll see how this one pans out.