Europe Is Cooking and Its Grid Is Shutting Down. Do We Know What's Coming?
Thirteen hundred people are dead across Europe. Train tracks in Leipzig melted, suspending service. France's nuclear reactors are shutting down—not because of an attack or accident, but because the rivers that cool them have become too warm to do the job.
The US has issued 31 emergency grid orders in the last six months. The infrastructure that supports modern life was engineered for a climate that no longer exists.
Mike and Neal open by examining the engineering problem underlying all of this: when you build to a hundred-year standard, you assume the past predicts the future. It doesn't…
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