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Old 09-24-2020, 08:42 AM   #9
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the rolling blackouts in california aren't due to the electrical usage being too high for production.

It's due to forest fire prevention because the high voltage cables can arc to dry brush and cause fires when under normal load. Because there's a lot of mountains in california and a lot of power lines going from one side of them to the other and electrical companies tend to be too lax in maintaining the vast amounts of land surrounding those cables because they're hard to access.
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