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How about other countries? There has been a cooking advice for my region for the past 5 days. It was lifted today, but a new cooking advice was issued for the region next to mine. The cooking advice says to boil your tap water for 3 minutes before drinking, because they found enterecococcen bacteria in the water.
Could this be a cyber attack? Like, there's not really a bacteria in the water, but the system is made to think there is.
Because they're using hacktivist groups as a proxy. They just deny all involvement, and probably keep it all isolated from the fancy military grade tools and techniques
These networks should be air-gapped from the internet. Full fucking stop.
I know the largest local power company in my area has (had?) a completely separate fiber network for monitoring & WAN communications, because I helped design it.
I don't want to let nations off the hook for being bastards, but the technical incomlktence of both our core infrastructure and the tools that support them is also astounding.
Texas has also become a hotbed for bitcoin mining, adding to electricity demand, as the state’s deregulated power market and abundance of cheap natural gas became attractive to the energy-intensive sector.
Hmm.
That actually might make a lot of sense.
So, if Texas has inexpensive electricity most of the time, but also has occasional high price spikes...bitcoin mining is something where you do not need power now. Sure, you're losing money on your hardware and space if it's not running, but my guess is that bitcoin miners probably can do just fine shutting their systems down when prices rise above a certain point. That would tend to smooth out electricity prices.
I'd been trying to think of electricity users that could defer usage and use a lot of electricity, which are something that you want if you have wildly-varying demand and want to smooth it out, and I suppose that coin mining is actually probably a pretty good example.
There is a lot of work happening in thermal mass storage for industrial heat demand (currently most industrial processes use Natural Gas to supply heat) .
Almost all Data Centre activity could be priced relative to electricity price allowing dynamic scaling.
Texas indeed has been blessed with much sunlight to make solar energy quite viable. This includes solar hot water heaters, and many trees to grow with vigour and bio-filtrate.
Presumably it's toxic mostly because of the concentration of salt.
If it can't be used—and up north salt is used in winter for roads—it can be cleaned a bit, diluted with more seawater and discharged back into the ocean.
((the brine of 1 mass unit of seawater that's been desalinated) + 20 units of regular seawater) ÷ 20 = 20 units of 5% saltier seawater discharged
It's nice that you think you, without any experience in the matter, can solve problems with desalination that engineers in the field can't, but I doubt you are actually able to.
shitty cruel systems texas likes to inflict on its citizens, the gun-totingest murican motherfuckers there are. kinda surprised they just bend over and take it. guess gun toting losers really are just losers
so what's the reason they're the only state independent from the national grid?
they just know better?
guess that's why they call it the lone star state
There's a whole article on it in Wikipedia, but the TL;DR; boils down to "If we're not connected nationally then we don't have to abide by national regulations".
That's ostensibly a cost-saving, assuming you don't think too hard about what's being regulated. But its also a great opportunity to price gouge consumers.
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