[125286] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Solar Flux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Mon Apr 12 00:22:04 2010
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:21:53 -0700
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Pete Carah" <pete@altadena.net>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Carah [mailto:pete@altadena.net]
> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 8:41 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Solar Flux
>=20
> And to top it all off, how many picojoules are stored in a modern ram
> cell
> compared to the same during the last sunspot peak. There is a hidden
> cost to memory density growth here...
>=20
> -- Pete
>=20
This cycle is currently predicted to be quite tame by recent standards.
So far NASA is predicting cycle 24 to be much weaker than 23 was:
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/images/f107_predict.gif
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml