[HN Gopher] Texans asked to turn up thermostats after heat knock...
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       Texans asked to turn up thermostats after heat knocks six power
       plants offline
        
       Author : lakis
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-05-14 20:41 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.cnn.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.cnn.com)
        
       | phendrenad2 wrote:
       | This article calls it "historic" but that's just because it's not
       | peak heat season. This temperature isn't unusual for July or
       | August. So yeah, there's a problem here, and it's not the heat.
        
         | momdad420 wrote:
        
         | downrightmike wrote:
         | Decades of pocketing money that should have been used to
         | modernize.
        
       | mrlonglong wrote:
       | How well maintained are the roads in Texas?
        
         | notreallyserio wrote:
         | Not well at all, in my experience. I didn't use the private
         | toll roads though.
        
       | rasz wrote:
       | Wonder if they asked bitcoin farms to turn off.
       | 
       | https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/fort-worth-tx-the-first-city...
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       | https://fortune.com/2022/02/10/texas-world-capital-bitcoin-m...
        
         | cyanydeez wrote:
         | Since they're capitalists, they likely just assume energy is
         | limitless as long as someone can pay for it
        
       | cyanydeez wrote:
       | Everything's bigger in Texas unless it's a privatized electric
       | grid. Then it pretends it can be infinitely usable, just burn
       | money and pray.
        
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