• SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    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.

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

    I suppose that’s a sentence?

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        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.

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    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.