Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-directed CMEs

Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by tlavoie on Friday May 10, 2024 @05:00PM (#40323747)

I've got a 1000 litre / 250-ish US gallon rainwater collection tank. While I wouldn't want to start there for drinking water, it would do for quite a while if I boil it.

We do get power failures, so it's mostly been for some garden watering, and being able to flush our toilets during an outage. We're on a well, and the pump needs 220v. I suppose I could get a better generator too, ours only does 120v.

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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by namibj on Saturday May 11, 2024 @12:52PM (#40329237)

You can just use a transformer to re-create the 240 for your pump if the power/load is otherwise fine

Especially as an autotransformer it's pretty cheap (should be about 50$).

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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by tlavoie on Saturday May 11, 2024 @01:40PM (#40329527)

That's true! It hasn't been a huge issue, we tend to mitigate basically by filling some pots with water when a storm is coming. (Usual outages happen in high winds, we have overhead lines and many trees.)

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