The Western reaction to global warming:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/things-going-break-texas-power-145408946.html‘Things Are Going to Break’: Texas Power Plants Are Running Nonstop
(Bloomberg) -- As searing Texas heat drives power demand to record highs, the state’s grid operator is ordering plants to run at a historic pace, often forcing them to put off maintenance to keep cranking out electricity.
Demanding more of the very thing that is causing the heat increase in the first place is what we need for sure (if you think like a Westerner)!
To meet the surge in power demand, Ercot, the grid operator, is leaning heavily on a mechanism called reliability unit commitments to ensure there’s enough supply. Plants are being regularly ordered to go into service, or remain in operation, and skip any scheduled maintenance. The measure also overrides shutdowns for economic factors or any other issues. And Ercot is using the rule more than ever before as the state battles bout after bout of extreme weather.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, as the operator is formally known, called for 2,890 hours of RUCs system-wide in the first half of this year. That’s more than triple the 801 hours in the first half of 2021, according to data from Ercot’s independent market monitor provided by Richmond. For all of 2020, there were 224 RUC hours.
And we thought it couldn't get more stupid than vaccine boosters.....
The situation underscores that the Texas grid is relying on short-term solutions for what’s poised to be a long-term problem. The state is contending with a population boom that’s driven demand higher. Crypto mining has also taken off in the past year, bringing with it the industry’s power-intensive operations. Meanwhile climate change has made extreme weather events that drive up electricity use more likely to occur and more severe — creating situations like a deadly February 2021 freeze that caused blackouts across the state.
Anyone with common sense would put a flat cap on energy use per person per day, and then immediately prohibit reproduction, starting with those who used the most energy prior to the cap and working our way down. But Westerners have a different answer:
Ultimately, the state needs more power plants, and regulators are working on ways to make that happen, he said.
Whoever said this should be prohibited from reproducing first.
See also:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/true-left-breakthrough-seriousness-in-environmentalism/