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Is that really a "dirty secret"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe_Synchronous_Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe_Synchronous
by ceejayoz 7mo ago
Is that really a "dirty secret"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe_Synchronous_Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe_Synchronous... exists for good reason.
- tensor 7mo agoThe power grids of US states are similarly linked. Very dirty.
- crooked-v 7mo agoExcept for Texas, which decided as a state that avoiding federal regulation was worth people dying every winter from power outages.
- karamanolev 7mo agoI'm not a fan of Texan electrical isolationism, but "people dying every winter from power outages" is stretching it a bit...
- ceejayoz 7mo agoEvery winter is a stretch, yes. But they did get a big warning shot in 1989 and 2011, and ignored those lessons for cost reasons. A couple hundred people died.
- amarant 7mo agoWhich actually works out to rather more than one person per winter, when averaged out.
- card_zero 7mo agoLike all the Canadians who die every winter in the Halifax explosion of 1917.
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- gottorf 7mo ago> But they did get a big warning shot in 1989 and 2011, and ignored those lessons for cost reasons. Cost is always a valid reason! > A couple hundred people died. Looks like about a thousand people in the US die of hypothermia every year, on average. So this happens frequently in states that aren't in its own interconnection, too.
- ceejayoz 7mo ago> Looks like about a thousand people in the US die of hypothermia every year, on average. In their powerless homes? I don't doubt people get lost in the woods. But that's not some systemic failure.
- seanmcdirmid 7mo agoYa, it was just one winter where people actually died, it was recent though.