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[-] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

Would we? I remember reading Ted Koppel’s book Lights Out a few years ago, but I’d assume that utilities, grid operators, and governments have been making efforts to improve grid resilience

[-] dave@feddit.uk 18 points 11 months ago

I find your excess of faith disturbing…

[-] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

Haha it’s less an excess of faith- more like someone else gets paid to worry about it, so i’m not gonna stress myself out for free

[-] fubbernuckin@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Bold of you to assume they're worrying about it.

[-] LaSaucisseMasquee@jlai.lu 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah that worked super well with Covid.

[-] scarecrow365@reddthat.com 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

God bless the Eastern Interconnection lol

[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Being proactive for risks that are small for the near term is expensive, and not very profitable for the shareholders.

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