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Using Texas as an example again: 10 years ago, 1M+ Texans lost power due to unusually cold temperatures. Last week, the same thing happened. This wasn't some u
by the_gastropod 6y ago
Using Texas as an example again: 10 years ago, 1M+ Texans lost power due to unusually cold temperatures. Last week, the same thing happened.
This wasn't some unpredictable event. It just wasn't considered sufficiently profitable to prepare.
- shakezula 6y agoWhich is a really solid argument for why we maybe shouldn't put profit first when it comes to things like our energy grids.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoWell, its just that people who made the decision are not paying for all the business disruption, productivity and health damages (including deaths) they caused. For some reason if you mop the floor without the "wet" sign, you could be liable, but if you let the whole powergrid collapse twice, you bear no fault
- TeMPOraL 6y agoYup. Money is a surprisingly good metric for these things, but it's how you count money that matters. That a power grid can collapse due to a predictable natural event tells us that the accounting we use here is wrong, as it doesn't correctly allocate costs of failure.