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> 
> NOVA last week was on the sun and predominantly about sun spots, CME's,
> etc.  Per the sun forecasters an event such as 1859 is not an "if" but a
> "when".
> 
> The main fear they have is that electric transformers world wide would
> be destroyed.  Electric co's do not have replacements lying around and
> the larger transformers would take years to replace across a large system.

Hmm, interesting.
I'm also worried about satellites getting fried... especially navstar