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Power is different. You get to pay the price it takes to produce and distribute even if it happens to be slightly inefficient. Its only when short term MBA/Poli
by StillBored 6y ago
Power is different. You get to pay the price it takes to produce and distribute even if it happens to be slightly inefficient. Its only when short term MBA/Politics get involved do the engineers who size capacity, maintenance, etc get overruled to save money. Or you can go the free market route, and just let everyone race to the bottom, which means cheap service that fails when it gets cold, hot, traders decide to screw people, or a storm blows through.
- refurb 6y agoAgain, unless the engineers are going to secure funding, they need to get politicians involved. And the "free market race to the bottom" is why you have $1,000 computer in your pocket. CA is nowhere close to a free market and is arguably worse than TX.
- StillBored 6y agoCA is the same problem in reverse. There the politicians think they can regulate both the price and the product. Vs TX where they think the bean counters can solve everything. Nowhere do the engineers have a voice in what actually works. So of course they are both dumpster fires. Edit: BTW: if you remember your history a lot of CA's power problems a couple decades ago were caused by free market experiments, which were promptly exploited by TX energy traders. The fixes haven't really helped CA.
- refurb 6y agoI don’t disagree about CA. They are micromanaging a “private” company and making things even worse.