Devastating & astonishing story from the Texas Tribune:
On Monday, the Texas power grid was under such extraordinary strain that it was just minutes from the kind of catastrophic damage that would have caused months-long power loss across the state.
texastribune.org/2021/02/18/tex…
On Monday, the Texas power grid was under such extraordinary strain that it was just minutes from the kind of catastrophic damage that would have caused months-long power loss across the state.
texastribune.org/2021/02/18/tex…
2/ The week’s events in Texas are a climate ‘fire alarm.’
All these systems in Texas *could have* worked. They do in Michigan.
They just weren’t set up for cold weather operation.
THEY TURNED OFF WATER TREATMENT PLANTS!
We need to reassess the kind of decisions Texas made.
All these systems in Texas *could have* worked. They do in Michigan.
They just weren’t set up for cold weather operation.
THEY TURNED OFF WATER TREATMENT PLANTS!
We need to reassess the kind of decisions Texas made.
3/ There are time-bombs like the Texas power grid across the country & the economy.
Here’s the key, a pillar of good water planning:
No wishful thinking.
You have to look at problems & plan with clear-eyed realism.
Texas relied on wishful thinking. The result: total disaster.
Here’s the key, a pillar of good water planning:
No wishful thinking.
You have to look at problems & plan with clear-eyed realism.
Texas relied on wishful thinking. The result: total disaster.
4/ Looking at problems. potential problems & preparation with realism rather than cheery optimism is hard.
It takes discipline & a good process.
When there’s a wet spot on the living room ceiling of after a storm, you never say, Let’s see if that leak in the roof fixes itself.
It takes discipline & a good process.
When there’s a wet spot on the living room ceiling of after a storm, you never say, Let’s see if that leak in the roof fixes itself.
5/ The problems we’re seeing in Texas are new — but they are 100% foreseeable. And we can fix them.
Better yet, we can AVOID them.
With science, engineering, good planning, sober civic conversation — and looking at where we are with realism.
Not with wishful thinking.
Better yet, we can AVOID them.
With science, engineering, good planning, sober civic conversation — and looking at where we are with realism.
Not with wishful thinking.
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