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But those 179 outages weren't "the grid" or "not enough power". We are the single largest state in the continental US. You can fit Britain into Texas 3x over. T
by vorpalhex 3y ago
But those 179 outages weren't "the grid" or "not enough power". We are the single largest state in the continental US. You can fit Britain into Texas 3x over. That's a LOT of power lines! Most of which are not in cities.
Of course we are going to have power outages that are localized!
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoI'm not saying the entire grid went down 180 times. You said "2". There should be more than 2 before we worry. Sorry, if you were very narrowly defining this to only 2 "Major Winter Outages". I was saying, how many problems do we need before we can say something without being considered 'hyperbolic'. There are a lot more outages. People just remember the big ones, and forget the rest. It's trying to argue when people only have short term memory. Yeah, there were 2 big ones that people remember, that isn't all of them. Things aren't normal if there is an increasing rate.
- vorpalhex 3y agoYou didn't show an increasing rate. We were discussing grid failures, of in which there have been two in 50 years, both caused by an extreme period of low temps. We can talk about weather events and localized incidents. It's really boring the moment we adjust for size or even per capita.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoYou are right. I mixed up a few different threads to this post, between purely 'winter outages', 'total demand', 'general climate'. I also didn't check if the article I cited was per-capita or not, or even per-Total Area, or something. If it wasn't, and since Texas is bigger, then that un-fairly tilts the numbers. And of course, with any numbers this year, almost all replies are 'it's el-nino'. And that is true. So guess we step back and wait another few years for a more compelling trend? See if everything really does average out next year.