On Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 4:09:22 PM UTC-4, snipped-for-privacy@uwsd.edu wrote in sci.electronics.repair:
From: The World of Science
> Article 4115
> Posted: April 1, 2015
>
> The world is running out of electrons.
The Sun can sometimes offer more electrons under very dangerous scenarios, though:
"On September 1-2, 1859, one of the largest recorded geomagnetic storms (as recorded by ground-based magnetometers) occurred ... Some telegraph operators could continue to send and receive messages despite having disconnected their power supplies.[9]
(Solar Storm of 1859, also known as the Carrington event)
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