Solar Flux

Mon Apr 12 04:21:53 UTC 2010

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Carah [mailto:pete at altadena.net]
> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 8:41 PM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Solar Flux
> 
> 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...
> 
> -- Pete
> 

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