Harry Stevens: ⚡ Will future heat waves cause power outages? New research shows where mid-century temperatures will be high enough for long enough to compromise power transformers, critical components of the grid. Latest Climate Lab: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... 🤓 Scenario: CMIP6 SSP2-4.5 1/4

⚡ Will future heat waves cause power outages? New research shows where mid-century temperatures will be high enough for long enough to compromise power transformers, critical components of the grid. Latest Climate Lab: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... 🤓 Scenario: CMIP6 SSP2-4.5 1/4

Analysis | Where heat waves might cause blackouts: Look up your areawww.washingtonpost.com New research shows that by 2050, large areas in California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas will experience months of temperatures high enough to compromise the grid.

The research does not account for high temperatures drive electricity usage, which puts further stress on the electrical grid. In New York and Phoenix, energy usage is more than twice as high on the hottest days of the year compared to mild days. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... 2/4

The new research is by ICF Climate Center. As with all Climate Lab columns, I put the data and code to produce these figures on Observable. Map: observablehq.com/@climatelab/... Scatterplot: observablehq.com/@climatelab/... 3/4

Heat wave stress on the electrical grid by mid-centuryobservablehq.com This notebook contains the data and code to produce a simpler version of the animated map seen in “See how heat waves could increase the risk of blackouts where you live”, published in The Washington ...

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"Will future heat waves cause power outages?" Yes, the government utilizes climate change to enact fear and successfully tax the hell out of poor people who don't get to choose anything but live under the iron fist of evil who they cannot control. It's basically a medieval rule with extra steps.

I fear there might also be further compound effects with heat waves, such as low river discharge and water levels which can cap the capacity of nuclear/fossil power plants because cooling water availability becomes a limiting factor

Are you posting on Mastodon? You should be.

Don't count out the Carrington sun events expected this year and next as the sun poles flip.. And.. guess what.. the Earth's core stopped spinning So, yeah we're f8ked

Hallo

There is a nationwide shortage for transformer units too. So when a transformer overheats and dies... will there be a replacement available in the area? 🤷🏼‍♂️

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