NASA states that solar flare releases enough energy to power the Earth for 20,000 years. Scientists are trying to figure out how to utilize solar flares for the development of human beings. According to scientists, solar flares generate by magnetic reconnection by breaking and reconnecting oppositely directed magnetic field lines in a plasma. Then the magnetic field energy converts into plasma kinetic and thermal energy developing solar flares in the process.
According to NASA, a “Complete understand of the subject could enable insights into nuclear fusion and provide better predictions of particle storms from the Sun that can affect Earth-orbiting technology.”
NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) has provided insight into the magnetic reduction process and fast connection process. NASA says to describe fast connection or explosive magnetic reconnection method, “Magnetic reconnection is a process that occurs in plasma, sometimes called the fourth state of matter. Plasma forms when gas has been energized enough to break apart its atoms, leaving a motley of negatively charged electrons and positively charged ions existing side-by-side. This energetic, fluid-like material is exquisitely sensitive to magnetic fields.” Plasma though out the universe causes a magnetic reconnection process by rapidly converting magnetic energy into heat and kinetic energy.
The solar flare or coronal mass ejection (CME) is a blast of plasma and scientists can predict its occurrence with the help of satellite data. In 1980 a geomagnetic storm caused havoc on Canada with massive power outrage affecting a million homes. Solar flares such as huge as the 1980s can overpower Earth by breaking Earth’s own magnetic field. Then solar power can heat up the Earth’s upper atmosphere and leave it electrically charged causing it to form auroras at the northern and southern poles. But these large solar flares can dangerously affect Earth’s power grids as NASA scientists say, “That’s when the power grids start to feel things, when you create a giant currently in the ionosphere, you also create currents in the ground. And the power grid is anchored in the Earth-grounded, as they call it. In the worst-case scenario, the CME would damage equipment, which would need to be replaced before you can bring power back to the grid.”
According to the 1859 Carrington Event, massive solar flares triggered a geomagnetic storm with charged particles streaming down on Earth’s surface electrifying the telegraph lines. The charged telegraph lines lit the telegraph papers on fire.
However, scientists are claiming those solar flares take several hours or days to reach Earth. They are trying to understand the internal dynamism to predict eruption more accurately. Right now scientists are yet baffled with detecting the accuracy of solar flares incoming and to create electricity the energy is needed to be conserved. Solar flares release huge energy and their occurrence is unpredictable so the idea of conserving them can be troublesome. There’s yet to be discovered and studied about the coronal mass ejections.
