Power Grids Are Teetering Worldwide. Here’s Why. (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Or maybe power grids are teetering because utilities raked in profit for the last two decades by ignoring upgrades that would obviously be necessary... Just a thought :)

My utility sells $400 Wi-Fi touchscreen thermostats for like $25, the catch being you let them turn your AC down/off when grid load peaks. A few truckloads of thermostats are cheaper than grid upgrades, so they do the thermostats and kick the can down the road more.

[-] ulkesh@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

"Extreme is increasing electricity demand as people crank up the AC."

I suppose that's a sentence?

[-] CoolRhino@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

It’s close enough. They tried their best.

[-] ulkesh@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

It's the New York Times! They couldn't even take the time to proofread the very first sentence :) Journalism has such a low bar these days.

[-] CoolRhino@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I know. I was being sarcastic

[-] amrawr@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty sure it was supposed to say extreme yeet

[-] starlord2014@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

World is getting hotter so turn on ac which uses more electricity, build new non-renewable electricity production to keep up which then increases world temps more. We're in a shitty vicious cycle.

[-] MeatCat@dubvee.org 5 points 1 year ago

Shitty, but profitable!

/s if not obvious.

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