Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds

On 7/17/2024 3:05 PM, William Hyde wrote:

Paul S Person wrote:

On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:47:12 -0600, John Savard
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:15:08 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:
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Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds
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Celebrate the coldest summer of the rest of your life with some
frosty SF and fantasy novels!
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https://reactormag.com/five-sff-books-featuring-frigid-icy-worlds/

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I could comment that your posting is itself a dystopian SF story,
about a world where giant oil companies have managed to control the
political system and hypnotize the populace so as to prevent any
effective response to global warming...
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if it weren't for the fact that it seems like calling that scenario
"fiction" has already proven to be over-optimistic.

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One of the two theories I have seen on why the Texas electrical system
died again (if that actually happened;

  According to news stories I have seen, some parts of Texas are not scheduled to regain power until July 19.
 When I lived in College Station, TX, I experienced more power outages per unit time than I have anywhere else (the situation here is deteriorating, though) but it was never gone for more than a few hours.
 William Hyde

Out of the 2.3 million electric meters that were down in the Houston area (3 million meters total), only 40,000 remain disconnected as of today.  That is awesome compared to Hurricane Ike which had major areas without power for up to six weeks.
 https://www.chron.com/news/article/houston-power-outages-beryl-19579186.php
Those electric meters are polled every five minutes, they know which meters are down.
My family and I were on our whole house generator from Monday at 5 am to Wednesday at 4 pm.  If constant electricity is important to you then you need to get an automatic whole house generator.  It is not unusual for us to get a monthly power outage of more than a minute, the generator starts and is making power within ten seconds.
Putting stuff underground does not work well on the Gulf Coast due to the high water table.  Plus, nobody around here is willing to pay the 10X cost of underground distribution lines and transmission lines.
Lynn