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Would we? I remember reading Ted Koppel’s book Lights Out a few years ago, but I’d assume that utilities, grid operators, and governments have been making efforts to improve grid resilience

[-] dave@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago

I find your excess of faith disturbing…

Haha it’s less an excess of faith- more like someone else gets paid to worry about it, so i’m not gonna stress myself out for free

[-] fubbernuckin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Bold of you to assume they're worrying about it.

[-] LaSaucisseMasquee@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah that worked super well with Covid.

[-] scarecrow365@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

God bless the Eastern Interconnection lol

[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Being proactive for risks that are small for the near term is expensive, and not very profitable for the shareholders.

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