like garbage that falls apart when people actually need to use it? or like a regressive money funnel to line the pockets of an oligarchical captured regulatory body?
texas' power grid is not a goal any serious advocate can advance as doing anything right.
Texas' grid also makes it incredibly easy for you to get your local solar/wind connected to the grid to sell your electricity back, further incentivizing local and renewable energy production.
Finally, when Texas' grid has issues with big events which knocks out power, it captures national headlines for months on end. When California has blackouts, its just California being California.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/06/25/blackouts-loom-in-cal...
Maybe there's more states than just Texas having to deal with the effects of climate change.
Meanwhile, the other 48 states, including a tiny island and a giant tundra wasteland larger than Texas have no problem keeping their power on in adverse weather.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/over-1-million-lose-pow...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/death-toll-rise...
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2020-08-06-isaias-...
Were you really trying to suggest the other 48 states never lose power in extreme weather situations?
> have no problem keeping their power on in adverse weather.
It sure reads like other states have no problem keeping their power on and not other states sometimes do lose power as well but hey at least they're trying. And besides, hurricanes hit the East Coast pretty dang often and yet still hundreds of thousands of people will lose power. Sure sounds like they're not trying hard enough if they should have no problem keeping the power on.
Also, as someone who has lived in Texas for 30 years, this storm was absolutely not a ten year event. It may become one with the changing climate, but I have never experienced an ice storm quite as extreme. The major winter storm that happened ten years before was still not close to the one this year. For the one ten years prior, most pools didn't freeze over. Even with the pumps running on my pool, I had nearly an inch of ice form. I've never seen it get that cold in Texas.
Maybe all California homes should have A/C for these heat waves. Sometimes it doesn't make sense economically.
I'm talking about having a transmission provider and having ISPs compete on the same lines.
It keeps prices down (unless you tricked into buying variable wholesale via startups like Griddy) and it keeps lines in good shape.
They’ve pledged to start work thinking about doing something, sometime soon, maybe.
That’s about as far as they’ve gotten.
I live in the heart of Silicon Valley, and I can’t get cell reception at my house. I have basic broadband, but I can’t get fiber despite being on a street where other houses have it.
I would be very interested in a comparison of what the citizens of each country have paid to fund internet service. US taxpayers have given the telecom mono/duopolies a ton of free money and right-of-way and the providers have broken every promise to provide universal service in exchange.