Eqinnox Eclipse
Mar. 19th, 2015 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellestraIf you are in Europe or Siberia I hope you remember there will be a solar eclipse visible tomorrow (well today by your time). Some of it will also be visible from Northern Africa and some other parts of Asia but it'll only cover less then 40% of the Sun there. It won't be total in Europe either - the totality is moving over the Arctic Ocean but the further North you live the more of the Sun will disappear. The only people who will see total eclipse are the ones living on the Faroe Islands and Svalbard. In Iceland, Greenland, Scotland, Ireland and Norway more than 90% of the Sun will be covered. In Poland it'll be about 70%. There is only 6 hours left until it starts in Poland so I hope you are ready (I mean you are probably asleep now but you should be already prepared anyway - next one so big will be in 2026).
We no longer fear it and people are more excited than anything when eclipses happened but the rise of solar energy gave media new reason to panic. It's been fun reading all those predictions of power failures, especially in Germany (7% - 18% of power in Germany comes from the Sun). It's not like they didn't had plenty of time to prepare - eclipses doesn't come by surprise. But it's fun to see the press get all worked up about it.
We no longer fear it and people are more excited than anything when eclipses happened but the rise of solar energy gave media new reason to panic. It's been fun reading all those predictions of power failures, especially in Germany (7% - 18% of power in Germany comes from the Sun). It's not like they didn't had plenty of time to prepare - eclipses doesn't come by surprise. But it's fun to see the press get all worked up about it.
