Comment on Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy

Napain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  it’s texas, their power grid doesn’t work.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Texan power grid works fine. It only has problems when it’s hot or cold.

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    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The system works great all year round but what it delivers is not electricity…

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    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      which is probably why i think it doesn’t work.

      Because yknow, texas, never gets hot… Or cold…

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• TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How is that supposed to work?

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  • randon31415@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Temperature is the measure of average thermal kinetic energy of particles…

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