World News Headlines November 8, 2021 Under One Ceiling 0 John Oliver takes a deep dive into the messy, troubling world of America’s power grid 0 0000 0 0 more John Oliver takes a deep dive into the messy, troubling world of America’s power grid November 8, 2021 Under One Ceiling now playing Transferring money from UAE abroad: what are my cheapest options November 8, 2021 Under One Ceiling WIN With Nespresso This Mother’s Day November 8, 2021 Under One Ceiling NBA Playoffs 2022: A Casual Fan's Guide to the Postseason November 8, 2021 Under One Ceiling Best New Climbing Gear of 2022 November 8, 2021 Under One Ceiling A Local Weekend Travel Guide to Austin, Texas November 8, 2021 Under One Ceiling First Drive: 2022 Range Rover Ups the Luxury SUV Experience November 8, 2021 Under One Ceiling Most Stylish Rain Jackets, Parkas, and Trench Coats for Men November 8, 2021 Under One Ceiling EU eyes Russian oil import ban as Moscow strikes western Ukraine November 8, 2021 Under One Ceiling World-class Clark Int’l Airport opens new 110,000 square-meter passenger terminal November 8, 2021 Under One Ceiling PCG: Bodies of 5 children who drowned in Taal Lake found November 8, 2021 Under One Ceiling John Oliver takes a deep dive into the messy, troubling world of America’s power grid Electricity is one of those things we only really pay close attention to when it suddenly cuts off. As John Oliver explains at the beginning of Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, this has been happening more and more frequently in the U.S., with extreme weather due to climate change being a major culprit — and due to our increasing electrical use and the added pressure this will place on the grid, it could well get worse in the coming years. In the video above, Oliver digs in to the history of the power grid, its issues, and why they haven’t been fixed yet, including the difficulties associated with rearranging the grid due to the growing focus on renewable energy (something hampered by a need for more transmission lines, which is in turn hampered by good old bureaucracy). “The key thing going forward here might be to start thinking about this differently than we currently are,” Oliver concludes. “Because for far too long, whenever we’ve experienced blackouts, we’ve tended to think of it as the power grid failing. But the truth is, it’s not failing us — we are failing it. By asking it to do something that it was not designed to do, in conditions that it was not designed to handle.” Want more? John Oliver takes an eye-opening deep dive into America’s broken unemployment system John Oliver takes a chilling deep dive into the causes of a pandemic John Oliver calls for a ‘collective change of perceptions’ around homelessness in America Related Related posts: South Korea’s new air defense system enters full-rate production tags: RSS Feed World News 0000 0 0 previous It's 2021, so here's how to build your own robot dog — Strictly Robots next YouTuber builds a cat elevator for his 20-year-old furry friend who struggles with stairs
