32: Energy Policy & The Texas Outage

Rethinking Politics

English - March 11, 2021 18:58 - 56 minutes - 92.5 MB
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The Texas Power outage was a massive failure of some kind, but what exactly caused it? While every Op-ed on the subject seems to already have their partisan answer, a closer look reveals just how messy it is. All of the simple answers for what caused this catastrophe; Wind Power, Fossil Fuels, Deregulation, and Texas’ Power Independence do not address just how inept the modern power grid really is. In this episode we discuss what went wrong, why the system is set up the way it is, and why power grids in the US will continue to struggle until major changes are made.

Music: Beauty Flow by Kevin Macleod

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