Texas power use hits record high as heatwave lingers

Texas power use hits record high as heatwave lingers - Lemmy.world

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Texas power use hits record high as heatwave lingers::Demand for power in Texas hit a record high on Monday as homes and businesses kept air conditioners cranked up to escape a heatwave.

Texas power use hits record high as heatwave lingers - Lemmy.world

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Since Texas power sources are majority fossil fuel, this creates a fun death spiral.

Extreme heat => more power use => more fossil fuel emissions => more extreme weather => more power use => more fossil fuel emissions => more extreme weather => 💀

7 comments

morsebipbip

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Fun fact barely no one lived in Texas before air conditioning was a thing. Gigantic sprawling cities in the middle of the desert are only possible because of oil

BastingChemina

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There is a interesting map that shows that: Mean center of population of the united states

On this map we can see that center of population in the United States moved almost on a straight line from east to west.

It's only around 1940-1950 that the center of population started to move south. Coincidentally this is also the period where home air conditioning started to become accessible to the general public.

morsebipbip

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that's very interesting, thanks. I keep in mind there are likely dozens of biases and other reasons contributing to this change, but air conditioning is realistically a significant part of it

bear

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I live in a desert as well and this has been on my mind a lot lately. Planning to move as soon as I have the means. Until then we just have to try our best to use as little as we can without living in complete misery.

AugustMetronome

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I can't understand how some Texas cities are attracting so many new residents right now. It's just insanity to me.