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The effect will be blunted because in the US we have AC and a fairly robust national power grid so the number of people affected will be limited to poor and hou
by rtkwe 5y ago
The effect will be blunted because in the US we have AC and a fairly robust national power grid so the number of people affected will be limited to poor and houseless people who we're already very good at ignoring suffering from. We've already had pretty bad heat waves in the past that have caused dozens of deaths in a day but they're diffuse and not in one giant group so they're easy to ignore like COVID, heart attack, and general poverty deaths.
- soperj 5y agoDidn't you just have people freezing to death in Texas because of a power outage?
- rtkwe 5y agoTexas is a bit of a special case in the US power grid... They're not a part of it, Texas decided to not connect itself to the national power grid because it wanted to go way further in on deregulation and couldn't do that if it was connected to the national grid and had to follow the rules that came with that. That's why you don't really see huge blackouts very often in the rest of the country, power outages are usually due to direct storm damage and only affect things on a particular line/circuit. Texas couldn't bring power in from unaffected areas to balance the spike in demand so they lost the whole grid, it's harder to have that happen in other parts of the country.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago> a fairly robust national power grid The local grid particularly in (parts of?) California is everything but robust.