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Was King Canute making maximal use of his power when he ordered back the waves, or could he have deployed his army to the beach to reinforce his edicts?
by chordalkeyboard 6y ago
Was King Canute making maximal use of his power when he ordered back the waves, or could he have deployed his army to the beach to reinforce his edicts?
- maxerickson 6y agoI don't know, I wasn't there.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoIt probably doesn’t matter because neither halting the tide nor producing heat in the winter are problems that are solved by authoritarian measures.
- VintageCool 6y agoRequire that the power companies in Texas winterize their equipment. Done. The electric company in El Paso, which is not part of ERCOT, did spend heavily to winterize their equipment after the 2011 cold snap. El Paso did not suffer outages this year like the rest of Texas. Producing heat in the winter is a solved problem. If power companies are not applying the known solutions to a recurring problem, then apply state force to require them to do so. Done.