An irony of the California wildfires: "Global warming has all kinds of negative effects, but one of them is NOT the strong easterly flow that drives the big wildfires we have seen in recent years," because models predict the effect to weaken with warming https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/extreme-winds-in-california-and-soon-in.html …
That's not accurate either. PG&E has been forced to defer maintenance by CPUC, and even a perfectly maintained power grid would have to be de-energized given the current weather situation.
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Relevent thread on CPUC here https://twitter.com/cjg2127/status/1187966825629249536 …
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Ta! As usual, layer upon layer. I recall seeing stories how fires had been traced to PG&E infrastructure, but I didn’t know their works were controlled like that. We have monopoly QANGOs here running the high-tension distribution, complex interplay with other regulatory bods.
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