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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Would we? I remember reading Ted Koppel’s book Lights Out a few years ago, but I’d assume that utilities, grid operators, and governments have been making efforts to improve grid resilience

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find your excess of faith disturbing…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haha it’s less an excess of faith- more like someone else gets paid to worry about it, so i’m not gonna stress myself out for free

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Bold of you to assume they're worrying about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah that worked super well with Covid.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

God bless the Eastern Interconnection lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Being proactive for risks that are small for the near term is expensive, and not very profitable for the shareholders.