LOL sick burn dude. It's crazy we build infrastructure typical in areas that are traditional in dry and heat to operate dry and heat environments not arctic conditions right?
And it’s crazy that sometimes they experience those conditions too, right? Not everything has to be one or the other. You can build preventatively to ya know. It’ll cost money up front duh, but it’ll be cheaper than everything going down.
Companies aren't going to spend billions on infrastructure that isn't a trend historically.
I went down there to help recovery on wind turbines for example. There's thousands of turbines down there that have tropical packages. Manufacturers offer arctic packages that have a lot more heaters, different oils, grease, etc but place like Texas, NM, AZ etc aren't going to spend more money on something they don't forecast needing 99.99 percent of the tome.
Ok well, according to ChatGPT, that one time cost between 80-130 billion to unfuck. And again according to chat, it would cost Texas around 20 billion over a few years to winterize their shit. Fuck it I guess.
A large percentage of those turbines are 10-15 years old lol.
And again, companies aren't going to invest billions in the office chance something so incalculable will happen. It's the same in virtually every industry
Yea and that 20 billion was part of retrofitting. I hardly think it’s incalculable since it’s happened a few times. But yes we can agree that companies will not spend their own money on things
And it would cost about that much to arctic freeze proof the entire grid, every year. Welcome to the world of opportunity cost. Wasting money hurts people too
No it wouldn’t. Winter proofing is mainly a one time upgrade. But of course you’ll have inspections and what not, like fixes or replacements here and there, but in no way would it cost 20 billion per year to maintain. That 20 billion according to gpt was over a few years too. Plus it could save lives which is probably the bigger thing here
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u/thinkB4WeSpeak 13d ago
Texas is about to get a stock market as well