r/MURICA 14d ago

Everything is bigger in Texas

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u/Lubedballoon 14d ago

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.

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u/jsmith47944 14d ago

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.

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u/Lubedballoon 14d ago

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.

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u/jsmith47944 14d ago

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

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u/Lubedballoon 14d ago

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

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u/jsmith47944 14d ago

Yeah most things don't matter until they matter for majority if companies