Texas is planning to make a huge public investment in space

"Further investment will cement Texas as the preeminent location for innovation."

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[Frank C.]

Same question. After all the anti-people legislation in both Texas and Florida, I certainly know many companies have paused any expansions or thoughts of doing business there. They hate uncertainty, and the prospect that any good, needed employees may not exist.

Not quite the right business atmosphere if you want to attract quality employees. Inevitably, such harmful legislation will prevent some people from setting foot in the state. Businesses see this. The pause is real.

 

[Frank C.]

The power grid was about 4 minutes from collapse, not a half hour. They got through more than half the grace period to bring grid frequencies back into spec before every generator in the state would start tripping off the grid. They came really fucking close to it, if they had a few more plants trip off or if one of the utilities was delayed in load shedding ERCOT may have become the first interconnect to ever do a black start.

On top of that, they found out a bunch of the black start generators in the state were not actually functional because of the storm.

3 minutes, 46 seconds to be exact. Just a handful of seconds really to having to endure a 19th century lifestyle for the several weeks or months it would have taken to repair everything.