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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with professor Le Xie of Texas A&M University about what Texas can do to prevent blackouts due to extreme weather as the state has experienced this week.

All week, Texans have been suffering through the worst winter storm the state has seen in decades. Temperatures are now rising, and gas pipelines are thawing. As power gets restored, the conversation now is, how do you prevent this from happening again? Well, engineering professor Le Xie of Texas A&M University has been thinking about what can be done to safeguard the supply of electricity, like winterizing infrastructure or connecting Texas with the national power grid so it can lean on other states in times like this. But Le Xie is also thinking about how to better control demand.

CHANG: ...Ideally. But what would it take for Texas to move to smart grid technology, as you describe it?

LE: So the good news is that a big chunk of the smart grid technologies are already in place. For example, a majority of the Texas residential customers have already been equipped with the so-called smart meters, which is a new type of meter that allows for faster and remote and automatic control of households' power needs. What we would need further would be a scaled-up deployment of grid edge technologies, for example, smarter thermostat in people's house, smarter circuit controllers, such as power electronic technologies. Those you would have seen in your Tesla car charging stations. And I would also want to emphasize, equally important, the institutional design of proper market incentives and business innovations so that for such demand reduction during critical times, such demand are properly credited and awarded, so customers feel like it is a carrot, not a stick.

CHANG: So you call this storm a wake-up call. Are you hopeful that some of these ideas might actually be implemented now because of everything that has happened this week in Texas?

LE: What we have experienced in Texas in the past week was way beyond the imagination of most of us. And just like Winston Churchill have said, never let a crisis go wasted. I think this is - I want to put it on a broader context. This is really part of the growing pain of the energy system transition not only for Texas, but for the entire country and perhaps for the entire world as we move towards a cleaner, a more sustainable and more resilient energy future.

CHANG: Professor Le Xie of Texas A&M University, thank you very much for speaking with us today.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/19/9695...dress-its-energy-infrastructure-going-forward
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"While you're freezing in your Texas home, Sen. Ted Cruz took off for Cancun. Really."

"In 2024, Cruz is going to ask Republican voters, and then possibly the wider electorate, to nominate him for the presidency or return him to the Senate for a third term," it said.

"These jobs require good judgment. And no matter what Cruz says between now and then, we have our answer about his."
https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/editorials/article249338345.html
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I respect someone who admits they made a mistake/misspoke. I've learned not to expect that from the far right though.
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You brought it up because Fox News brought it up. And you bought it. And change "spun" to "lie".
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SUPPORT RELIEF EFFORTS IN TEXAS

Nearly 3 million households across Texas are still without power.

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It's moronic when right wingers can't give someone credit for helping out during a crisis because it goes against their agenda.

Meanwhile, the same delusional attitudes prevent them from criticizing Ted Cruz for not only abandoning his fellow Texans but also leaving his dog alone in a freezing house.

Snowflake looks out to the street.

https://nypost.com/2021/02/19/ted-cruz-left-pet-poodle-home-alone-during-cancun-trip-report/

This is what the right has become. I hope to god the GQP rots in the political wasteland for a generation. Because I wouldn't vote for a Republican as dog catcher.
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