Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
by heurist on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @07:05PM
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They didn't invest in the weatherproofing needed for these extreme events. It wasn't worth the expense for them to ensure that people would have heat if we had a record-breaking cold snap (only have to go back 30 years to match the one we are in now). I wonder if that equation will change once the state is back up and running again.
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Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
by reddog on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @09:22PM
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It will. You can bet on it. The Texas Legislature is currently in session (it only meets every other year). Maybe a quarter of them will have personally experienced this power outage and all of them will have a parent, sister, son, neighbor, friend who suffered through it. And while these people may not know much about same sex bathrooms, a lot of them know a lot about energy. When this session is out weatherpfoofing will not be "suggested" or "recommended", it will be law.
Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
by ip26 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @07:27PM
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I wonder if that equation will change...
It seems like there is no shortage of scapegoats, so my money says "no".
Re:What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
by killjoywashere on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @08:37PM
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Seriously, there are already disinformation agents hard at work across the internet, at least one in this thread. By November this cold snap will be tied to Benghazi and a pedo ring run out of a pizza joint.