• Kaboom@reddthat.com
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      2 months ago

      In California? They have black outs every summer. The power going out is a valid concern

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        2 months ago

        Lived in California (SoCal and Bay Area) my entire 42 years.

        No, we don’t.

        There was a short, planned outage in my neighborhood (San Diego suburbs) last summer - we got a few days notice (can’t recall if it was a letter or an email). Didn’t have one the summer before that. I don’t recall any power outages when I lived in the Bay Area.

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    2 months ago

    You tend to lag behind when your laws are bought by corporate interests keen on keeping it the same

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    2 months ago

    Till 2019, <1 % of total rail in US was electrified according to Wikipedia? Is this true; considering that US was a world leader in terms of rail transport upto WW II, why the abysmally low numbers? I know that privatisation of rail networks and car centred cities makes life tough for rails, but 1 % is abysmally low for a developed nation.

    In contrast, China is at 75% and India is at 93% respectively and both of them also have giant railway networks.