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Summer Blackouts Bring Deadly Risk as Heatwaves Grip the Globe

• jseliger 4y ago
  In the meantime, we see transmission lines defeated in places like Maine: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2021/11/05/maine-voters-rejection-of-transmission-line-shows-again-how--land-use-conflicts-are-halting--renewable-expansion/?sh=7986352e68e8 https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2021/11/05/maine-vo... and Colorado: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-clean-energy-power-lines-transwest-wind-maps-private-property/ https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-clean-energy-power-l...
  • WalterGR 4y ago
    Is it a transmission problem or a capacity problem? The recent shutdowns in Texas were caused by power plants getting overloaded, not due to too few transmission lines. So if the transmission lines were in place in Maine and Colorado, how would that affect the anticipated blackouts across the US?
• usednet 4y ago
  It genuinely feels as if we are now beginning to watch the end of the world as we know it. In the coming years massive swaths of the world population will live in areas consistently above wet-bulb temperature. I predict in the next 10 years we will see heat waves resulting in deaths not in the hundreds but in the tens of thousands.
  • WaxedChewbacca 4y ago