Labor crisis ensures robots replace human workers + Texas power grid doomed to fail

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Robot orders increase 40% in first quarter as desperate employers seek relief from labor shortages, report says
https://www.businessinsider.com/robot-or...age-2022-5

KEY POINTS: Robot orders increased 40% in the first quarter of 2022, as businesses seek solutions to the labor crisis. The robot industry is now valued at $1.6 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Automation may provide a temporary salve, but some are concerned it will displace human workers as the shortage eases... (MORE - details)

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The Texas power grid is designed to fail
https://www.vox.com/recode/23144696/texa...nter-storm

EXCERPTS: . . . Texas may be the most vulnerable of those 48. Most states in the continental US are connected to power grids that sprawl across state (and at times even international) lines. But Texas is, somewhat infamously, an energy island: It operates a power grid that’s mostly disconnected from the rest of the country. Depending on whom you ask, this has its advantages and disadvantages. Keeping the Texas grid disconnected from the rest of the country means it won’t fall under federal regulations, as grids that cross state lines do. But it also means Texas can’t borrow power from other states when its power infrastructure fails, as it did in February 2021 when Winter Storm Uri hit, knocking out power across the state for days. Hundreds of people died as a result.

Experts are worried something similar could happen this summer. Electricity use tends to peak in the summer in most of the United States, when people crank up their air conditioners. As rising temperatures force people inside for longer stretches of time, and as ACs work harder against more punishing heat, the American grid — which already isn’t prepared for climate change — will be pushed to its breaking point trying to keep up with energy demand. This May, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation announced that several parts of North America are at “elevated or high risk” of blackouts, thanks to the deadly combination of heat and a historic drought in the West. In California, officials warned that climate change could cause blackouts in the state for the next five summers.

[...] I recently spoke to Buchele about how the Texas grid is set up to constantly teeter on the edge of failure, one misstep away from a blackout. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity... (MORE - the interview, missing details)

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Robot orders increase 40% in first quarter as desperate employers seek relief from labor shortages, report says
https://www.businessinsider.com/robot-or...age-2022-5

KEY POINTS: Robot orders increased 40% in the first quarter of 2022, as businesses seek solutions to the labor crisis. The robot industry is now valued at $1.6 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Automation may provide a temporary salve, but some are concerned it will displace human workers as the shortage eases... (MORE - details)

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For every unruly stinky food consuming turd excreting grizzling/whining lowly worker human problem, there's a shiny, clean, efficient, uncomplaining, tireless Cyberdyne solution:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/med...m408060928
And that's just the start! The fewcha oriented elite betta keep looking over their shoulders - high tech pleb replacements might get uppity and sooner or later replace them too!

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The Texas power grid is designed to fail
https://www.vox.com/recode/23144696/texa...nter-storm

EXCERPTS: . . . Texas may be the most vulnerable of those 48. Most states in the continental US are connected to power grids that sprawl across state (and at times even international) lines. But Texas is, somewhat infamously, an energy island: It operates a power grid that’s mostly disconnected from the rest of the country. Depending on whom you ask, this has its advantages and disadvantages. Keeping the Texas grid disconnected from the rest of the country means it won’t fall under federal regulations, as grids that cross state lines do. But it also means Texas can’t borrow power from other states when its power infrastructure fails, as it did in February 2021 when Winter Storm Uri hit, knocking out power across the state for days. Hundreds of people died as a result.

Experts are worried something similar could happen this summer. Electricity use tends to peak in the summer in most of the United States, when people crank up their air conditioners. As rising temperatures force people inside for longer stretches of time, and as ACs work harder against more punishing heat, the American grid — which already isn’t prepared for climate change — will be pushed to its breaking point trying to keep up with energy demand. This May, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation announced that several parts of North America are at “elevated or high risk” of blackouts, thanks to the deadly combination of heat and a historic drought in the West. In California, officials warned that climate change could cause blackouts in the state for the next five summers.

[...] I recently spoke to Buchele about how the Texas grid is set up to constantly teeter on the edge of failure, one misstep away from a blackout. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity... (MORE - the interview, missing details)

And what is the estimated cost of an infrastructure upgrade adequate to address this nominal 'extreme anthropogenically induced crisis'? And how would that honestly arrived at sum compare to, by one estimate, the ~ 8 TRILLION $$$$ hugely energy-intensive greenhouse-generating expenditure, just in order to make the ME 'safe' for the US's 'staunchest ally' and 'closest friend'? Naturally the associated and ongoing enormous human misery is not part of that accounting procedure. Just to be clear.