As an electrical engineer myself I think what he's referring to is that electrical grids cant carry as much current in hot weather because the air cannot cool the lines and equipment like it can in colder weather. This isn't a problem in a properly invested in electrical grid as it would be designed for the worst case scenario with plenty of spare capacity on the lines and transformers. What is sounds like California is doing is pushing their grid to the limit so that it is failing on hot days because it can't carry all of the current needed without overheating. When lines overheat they also droop down which is how fires are started if brush isnt being maintained. Proper maintenance of power lines means cutting brush and the environmentalist wackos in California don't like that. Instead they then have to resort to shedding load, aka shutting off peoples power. If they didn't do that there would be lines drooping into trees or cascading blackouts like the northeast one in 2003.
Proper investment and maintenance would prevent all of this. Electrical grids have worked fine in hot temperatures for decades. Texas has a well maintained modern grid, at least in the areas I've worked in.
and tbh all this always boils down to information. most people would vote differently if they had this information, but instead they're blasted 24/7 with white ppl must die, nature good don't touch it, and other similar shit
As an electrical engineer myself I think what he's referring to is that electrical grids cant carry as much current in hot weather because the air cannot cool the lines and equipment like it can in colder weather. This isn't a problem in a properly invested in electrical grid as it would be designed for the worst case scenario with plenty of spare capacity on the lines and transformers. What is sounds like California is doing is pushing their grid to the limit so that it is failing on hot days because it can't carry all of the current needed without overheating. When lines overheat they also droop down which is how fires are started if brush isnt being maintained. Proper maintenance of power lines means cutting brush and the environmentalist wackos in California don't like that. Instead they then have to resort to shedding load, aka shutting off peoples power. If they didn't do that there would be lines drooping into trees or cascading blackouts like the northeast one in 2003.
Proper investment and maintenance would prevent all of this. Electrical grids have worked fine in hot temperatures for decades. Texas has a well maintained modern grid, at least in the areas I've worked in.
and tbh all this always boils down to information. most people would vote differently if they had this information, but instead they're blasted 24/7 with white ppl must die, nature good don't touch it, and other similar shit
You distilled it down almost perfectly.