This article used the Texas power outages to dig into the debates over electrification. A key point this article -- and the recent outages -- make is that if we electrify everything we're putting ourselves at a huge risk, for the very reasons we saw in Texas: If the grid fails, massively, everything shuts down. Gas stoves are a case in point.
Emily Pontecorvo, "After the Texas freeze, people are asking: Is electrifying buildings risky?", contributed by Alison Kenner, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 2 March 2021, accessed 22 November 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/after-texas-freeze-people-are-asking-electrifying-buildings-risky
Critical Commentary
This article used the Texas power outages to dig into the debates over electrification. A key point this article -- and the recent outages -- make is that if we electrify everything we're putting ourselves at a huge risk, for the very reasons we saw in Texas: If the grid fails, massively, everything shuts down. Gas stoves are a case in point.