Jason Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/how-trump-appointees-short-circuited-grid-modernization/615433/ On a surely unrelated note: https://www.npr.org/2018/03/23/596044821/russia-hacked-u-s-power-grid-so-what-will-the-trump-administration-do-about-it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 The future will call this The Grifted Age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 10 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: The future will call this The Grifted Age. The Gilded Showers Age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 It's not flashy, but that was an infuriating read. Here's an idea that seems like it would work. An idea that would put us on a path towards the inevitable future and in in the process it would create jobs, reduce emissions, modernize a critical infrastructure, reduce blackouts, and it would pay for itself twice over. Unfortunately, it ran into one of the many inane promises of our idiot President. Almost more than anything I'm infuriated that Catherine “Katie” Jereza, then a deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity, so clearly saw the potential and the promise of this idea that she had to act immediately, but she did so only to save Trump face. It's a freaking infrastructure program! They're always looking for a good infrastructure program! And then it goes on. For years. From the article it doesn't seem like anyone actually had any concerns about the quality of the paper or the potential it suggested. It was just the politics of coal and climate denial. It makes me think about all the other work like this. Good ideas, largely unquestioned in their positive outcomes, held back because of the fragile ego sitting atop the throne. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 20, 2020 Author Share Posted August 20, 2020 14 minutes ago, TwinIon said: From the article it doesn't seem like anyone actually had any concerns about the quality of the paper or the potential it suggested. It was just the politics of coal and climate denial. And potentially the fact that it would close Russia's backdoor into our power grid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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