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I really hope some smart people are preemptively figuring out how to keep the electrical grid from completely failing this summer when every person in the US is sitting at home all day running their air conditioners. Our hospitals can’t afford that kind of crisis.
I think the bigger immediate worry is the massive number of poor folks, even in the south, who somehow dont even have a window unit being penned up at home
For sure. People having no public option to cool down from the heat (parks, pools, just being outside) is going to be a major crisis and deadly for many people. But hospitals (& nursing homes & so many other places) losing power during a pandemic is equally concerning.
Yeah, I wonder how much capacity it will add. The impoverished are generally fairly limited in how much they can run the AC or heat. Meanwhile, the mcmansions of texas are permanently 55 degrees until winter, and then they're at 80
My brother lives in Williamston NC, it's been in the 90s several times already, and he estimates half the houses in the town don't have AC and the kids get by because they're at some school program and the parents get by because they're at work, and it cools a bit at night
I desperately hope there’s some competent people thinking about these exact issues you’re raising here. Even the political cynic in me is hoping for it.
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