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.
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/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.