• @kalpol
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    29 months ago

    They certainly left out the part where the other grids were having major problems in the snowpocalypse. You can’t engineer to consider all edge cases, it is prohibitively expensive.

    • @reddig33OP
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      09 months ago

      I think you’re missing the point. When a part of the grid goes down in another state, it doesn’t take the whole system with it, because it’s connected to a larger grid. Not so in most of Texas.

      West Texas is connected to a larger grid, unlike the rest of the state. It didn’t have any problems with snowpocalypse and electricity.

      https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/el-paso-electric-winter-storm-2021/

    • @CharlesMangione
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      10 months ago

      The problem of ice buildup cutting off electrical supply being “solved” by global warming preventing ice buildup…