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> Not angry enough to get their elected officials to make the power grid changes needed Do you have the magic solution that makes them resilient to natural dis
by wannacboatmovie 2y ago
> Not angry enough to get their elected officials to make the power grid changes needed
Do you have the magic solution that makes them resilient to natural disasters short of burying every single power line underground? Which is not only impractical but insanely expensive. The infrastructure has been physically damaged or destroyed. You fired off a politically charged comment and offered no specifics.
- harimau777 2y agoIncreased trimming of trees near power lines. Apparently CenterPoint spent significantly less than some of the other power suppliers on maintenance. I don't know that it would help in this specific instance, but connecting Texas to the rest of the power grid would likely make the system overall more resilient.
- blantonl 2y agoIt wouldn't have helped. Trimming trees is preventative maintenance so that simple wind gusts don't trip lines when branches encroach on power lines. The only way you can prevent damage from falling trees is to completely remove them.
- harimau777 2y agoThen it might be necessary to remove or relocate the trees since Houston is so vulnerable to hurricanes.
- wannacboatmovie 2y ago> I don't know that it would help in this specific instance, but connecting Texas to the rest of the power grid would likely make the system overall more resilient. Irrelevant wishful thinking. The outages are caused by localized physical damage. There is no shortage of grid power. Inter-ties to every grid in the world wouldn't help when the wires on the last mile have been physically destroyed.
- harimau777 2y agoNote that I said "I don't know that it would help in this specific instance" Previous outages have been caused by issues with the grid rather than lines. Apparently CenterPoint is predicting that this summer power usage will near the grid's capacity and supposedly CenterPoint is known for underestimating.
- wannacboatmovie 2y agoOkay, but none of that has anything to do with the power lines being physically mangled or toppled by wind.
- 547555 2y agoIt targets the right. His comment won't get [flagged] even if it's a mind fart.
- tardy_one 2y agoImproving a percentage of a net has reduced down percentage for a reduced timeframe, so it seems like there are obviously better alternatives to the hand wringing approach if the goal isn't actually to justify doing nothing.
- TulliusCicero 2y ago> Do you have the magic solution that makes them resilient to natural disasters short of burying every single power line underground? Which is not only impractical but insanely expensive. "Do you have any suggestions other than what would actually work??"