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Maggie Koerth
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So, my kids are going back to in-person school in a couple weeks. I wanted to say something because folks in the Twin Cities were asking me about my choices
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Friends, I assure you that your non-Texas chunk of the electric grid is also deeply flawed, aging, and bonkers in its own special way. ERCOT is a weird system, but
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This is horrifying.https://twitter.com/mims/status/1361851650495889416 So here's the thing with making an electric grid work: You have to have an almost perfect balance between supply and demand at all times. There's a
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This is a super interesting thread about experiences with the Texas electrical grid. I will say one thing here: VERY old and shoddily maintained infrastructure is not just a feature
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I've been seeing a lot of tweets blaming Texas blackouts on wind power. Minnesota's wind turbines operate down to about -20. We've had to turn them off before when it
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Minneapolis parents have to file their decisions on in-person vs. distance learning this week. I still haven't filed mine. But apparently there are people factoring my choice into theirs so
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The reality is this: Building an audience basically requires you have a lot of new content. Daily? Multiple times a day? Anyway, a lot. And that's not how original reporting
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2020 would be the year that @PrimeVideo decided It's A Wonderful Life needed to be the colorized version. Goddamit and heehaw. This is, of course, my annual It's a Wonderful
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