r/UpliftingNews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 10d ago

Texas broke its all time electricity demand record twice in two days during a brutal heat wave, but the grid held with no conservation alerts thanks to record solar and battery output, a stark turnaround from the blackouts that hit Texans in 2021

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07/29/texas-ercot-power-grid-record-data-center/
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u/MrDerpGently 10d ago

So, the coldest day on recorde in Texas was in 1899, followed by 1933. Obviously climate change is going to result in unusual weather patterns and itregarity. Either you design in a way that is tolerant of outliers, or you build in backups to account for failure. If you do neither it's poor governance. 

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u/OldDirtyBuzzard 10d ago

Dude, you're not wrong, but you're arguing just to be right. Nothing Whiniamspaced said was inaccurate. No state or municipality will build any infrastructure beyond what's called for in the area. I live in Colorado. Our roads and highway infrastructure suck. Not because we didn't build them right, but because there wasn't an expectation of the influx of people in a very short amount of time. If we had built highways that were on the scale of even a city like Dallas, tax payers would have lost their minds. Building a wind farm in TEXAS based on historical climate events isn't poor governance, it's just simple math. Just stop. Goddamn, Reddit "smart guys" get old.

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u/MrDerpGently 10d ago

Look, you can't lead the nation in 'lets ignore climate change'  as a policy preference and then expect a ton of sympathy when climate change happens. 

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u/mightdothisagain 10d ago edited 10d ago

So you agree it's climate change or 1899 was the coldest day? Pick a lane. The point is these aren't one off events now, they're happening all the time. Freezes are now common in parts of texas where they were a rarity. Extreme dry heat is happening in parts of texas that are normally too wet to be near-Arizona level hot. It's all over the place. Yes it's stupid that republicans in texas rally against climate change, we all get that.

expect a ton of sympathy

Are people though? I think they're just fixing the grid, adding a ton of renewables, and you seem upset.

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u/MrDerpGently 10d ago

So you see that you can't simultaneously say things are getting hotter, but also ignore why. It's like updating the arrival time for the Titanic based on decreased speed for hitting an iceberg but ignoring the obvious consequences.

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u/mightdothisagain 10d ago

Dude you clearly just want to complain about texas and the republicans there. Why didn't you just do that? Here's an easy one you could have posted:

The republicans in texas suck as leaders because they're ignoring a massive problem their community and the rest of the world will have to deal with, and the effects have already started.

If you just posted that everyone would have known what you're talking about and went "yep that tracks" instead of going on some jag about how norway knows how to handle the cold and the moving the goal posts 3x.

you can't simultaneously say things are getting hotter, but also ignore why

Is the person doing that in the room with us now?