Massoud Amin explains how a solar storm could knock out the world's power
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In the next ten years there is a twelve percent chance that a solar storm could knock out the world's power grids resulting in a "post-apocalypic nightmare," according to NASA scientists.
Massoud Amin, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Minnesota, joined MPR News' Tom Crann to explain how "coronal mass ejections" could affect Minnesota's power grid.
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