Let's say a power station fails unexpectedly. There are several options.
1) Expect politicians to do their job in times of emergency.
2) Rolling blackouts.. or maybe build or incentivize through fines and regulations adequate backup and reserve in the system?
3) Give up and hand over control of peoples possessions to the corporate giants. (ask them nicely not to just use this to reduce reserves and maximize profits)
Never mind that there hasn't been a real power shortage in my country for 70 years.
>Never mind that there hasn't been a real power shortage in my country for 70 years.
Huh. The power for most of Marin County, California (just north of San Francisco) was turned off for 48 hours without only a few hours or maybe a day of warning because some Federal judge ordered the entity (PGE) that owns most of the transmission lines never to spark another wildfire and because the meteorological conditions became such that the risk of wildfires was very high.
Well, sure, I never thought he was. I'm interested in how well the US is run compared to other places in the world, and reliable provision of electricity seems to me a good barometer of how well a place is run.
OK, but I bet they have US Federal judges where you live in the US, too. Again: the 48-hour almost-county-wide outage was caused AFAICT by an order by a Federal judge, the effects of which most educated rational people would have been able to predict.
So you're trying to convince me that more centralization of power is good, so that a federal judge that screwed up one county can be replaced by a cabal that can screw up the whole country?
Let's say a power station fails unexpectedly. There are several options.
1) Expect politicians to do their job in times of emergency.
2) Rolling blackouts.. or maybe build or incentivize through fines and regulations adequate backup and reserve in the system?
3) Give up and hand over control of peoples possessions to the corporate giants. (ask them nicely not to just use this to reduce reserves and maximize profits)
Never mind that there hasn't been a real power shortage in my country for 70 years.