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Dark Texas: A Worst-Case Look at the Texas Power Grid - Through Fiction
Welcome to a new season of the award-winning Hill Country Authors Podcast, sponsored by Stoney Creek Publishing. In this podcast, Hill Country resident Tom Fox visits with authors who live in and write about the Texas Hill Country. In this episode, host Tom Fox interviews fellow UT grad Charles J. Petrie about his novel Dark Texas, inspired by his frustration with articles claiming the Texas power grid failure during the ‘Snowpocolips’ “could have been worse.”
Petrie, a PhD in computer science with research experience, explains he dug into grid resilience and found deeper risks, including…
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