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grebella -7 points ago +1 / -8

Maybe from the massive heatwave they are experiencing? Trump is trying to make us think this is some sort of democrat conspiracy when in reality this type of thing happens all the time during heatwaves. This has nothing to do with politics, it's just the weather.

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JoeTheNibbler 5 points ago +5 / -0

Funny, Phoenix doesn't seem to have those issues and they've been experiencing record breaking heat this year. In fact, the only blackouts seem to be from severe lightning storms, and even those aren't taking down the grid. Phoenix also doesn't have retarded water policies like commiefornia and do just fine living in a fucking desert. It's all about politics when the state (California) is one of the largest economies on Earth.

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Libertysheimdall1 3 points ago +3 / -0

Umm, do you know what planning is? Margins of safety?

You do not engineer a building or a chair to deal with average loads, or even expected ones. You engineer them to deal with loads far in excess, so that they do not break even if you didn't have foresight.

Here, it's even worse because you don't need foresight to know heat waves are a thing in California. It happened a few years ago too.

The problem is that PG&E is not allowed to engineer for this contingency because Moonbeam signed a law outlawing carbon fuels for electricity by 2045. So no one can afford to build new gas plants that will have a limited service life.

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pseudosapient 1 point ago +1 / -0

Moonbeam signed a law outlawing carbon fuels for electricity by 2045.

So, what you're saying is, buy up land anywhere there's a decent spot in neighboring states to run transmission lines to CA and make bank.

(This is not investment advice.)

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Wtf_socialismreally 2 points ago +3 / -1

That.. isn't what he's doing.

He's calling out Democrat leadership for failing to meet demands by ignoring energy options and keeping people home, which is causing additional strain.

You might be retarded or only follow mainstream media -- I'm not sure which -- but Trump is actually late on this by a couple days, and it is being done intentionally to try and relieve the pressure on the system.

It was literally talked about already.