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What a load of guff! Let's say a power station fails unexpectedly. There are several options. 1) Expect politicians to do their job in times of emergency. 2)
by cortic 3y ago
What a load of guff!
Let's say a power station fails unexpectedly. There are several options.
1) Expect politicians to do their job in times of emergency.
2) Rolling blackouts.. or maybe build or incentivize through fines and regulations adequate backup and reserve in the system?
3) Give up and hand over control of peoples possessions to the corporate giants. (ask them nicely not to just use this to reduce reserves and maximize profits)
Never mind that there hasn't been a real power shortage in my country for 70 years.
- hollerith 3y ago>Never mind that there hasn't been a real power shortage in my country for 70 years. Huh. The power for most of Marin County, California (just north of San Francisco) was turned off for 48 hours without only a few hours or maybe a day of warning because some Federal judge ordered the entity (PGE) that owns most of the transmission lines never to spark another wildfire and because the meteorological conditions became such that the risk of wildfires was very high.
- helsinkiandrew 3y ago> Huh. The power for most of Marin County, California (just north of San Francisco) was turned off ... Perhaps the commenter isn't from the USA?
- hollerith 3y agoWell, sure, I never thought he was. I'm interested in how well the US is run compared to other places in the world, and reliable provision of electricity seems to me a good barometer of how well a place is run.
- jtbayly 3y ago"The US" doesn't have power outages. Even most states don't have power outages. But yes, there are some poorly run places in the US.
- hollerith 3y agoOK, but I bet they have US Federal judges where you live in the US, too. Again: the 48-hour almost-county-wide outage was caused AFAICT by an order by a Federal judge, the effects of which most educated rational people would have been able to predict.
- jtbayly 3y agoSo you're trying to convince me that more centralization of power is good, so that a federal judge that screwed up one county can be replaced by a cabal that can screw up the whole country?
- hollerith 3y agoNo, I wasn't trying to convince you of that. In fact, so far I haven't even been able to picture what you are saying.