Posted on 02/17/2021 5:04:05 AM PST by Hojczyk
Most of Texas has its own power grid.
That’s because they don’t shut off power if you’re close and connected in those places. I’m close to a grocery and drug store so haven’t lost power. Water is another story. Parts of town ran out of water and a main busted, so since yesterday it’s just very low pressure.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don’t* pursue a Green New Deal.
11:00 PM · Feb 16, 2021
“Upgrading equipment to withstand extremely low temperatures and other changes, such as providing incentives for customers to conserve power or upgrade to smart appliances, could help avoid disasters like this one, said Le Xie, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Texas A&M University and assistant director of energy digitization at A&M’s Energy Institute.
“We used to not worry too much about such extreme cold weather in places like Texas, but we probably need to get ready for more in the future,” Xie said. With climate change, he said, “We’re going to have more extreme weather conditions throughout the country.””
The fact is this entire country, Texas and Florida included, has become a “green” sh*thole. And it’s only going to get worse.
The HE’LL WE ARE!
There is - it's called "winterizing" the equipment. They just didn't want to spend the money to implement the plan.
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