r/Shortages

U.S. power grid operator PJM, the nation's largest covering much of the East Coast and Midwest, on Friday ordered customers in emergency alert to curb their use, as it battled generator outages, overloaded transmission lines and surging air-conditioning demand during a prolonged heat wave.

PJM Interconnection, which manages the electricity system serving 67 million people in 13 states and the District of Columbia, has issued emergency energy alerts amid expectations that hot summer weather will drive up power demand.

The 13 states are Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

This idea came to mind in regard to first world quality of life, and planetary care, which to me don't seem to align and would like to share.

I am personally all for AI and it's use to assist humanity grow to our fullest potential, yet this came with the cost of pushing the electrical grids to their maximum. No doubt, this will cause increased demand, and rising costs for the average citizen (ie, share holder profits), but also potentially raise revenue for individual retirement portfolios... but what about the planet? What about the average citizen day to day, check to check, and the well being of Earth?

With all the billions being thrown around so loosely, why is nobody invested in fixing ALL of the aforementioned and seemingly focusing solely on profit of trade insiders and government lobbies / groups?

The reason I say this is because WE HAVE the technology to improve the efficiency of the electrical power grid, reduce heat, reduce use, reduce waste heat, INCREASE availability to data centers and individuals, and also increase revenue generation for companies by increasing capitol flow through efficiency improvements through efficiency improvements.

This came to mind when talking to the owner of MISSION IGNITION SYSTEMS LTD., where the owner has a method of improving electrical transmission efficiency of the existing grid by 20-35%, with minimal replacing of existing infrastructure, and what is being done? Nothing.

Is it me, or is this the same, beaten to the ground, status quo thinking and mindset? Are insiders and shoulder rubbers focused purely on greed, unsustainable models contributing to the very issues they bring up daily such as greenhouse gases, carbon footprints, heat generation, and have offered no solutions other than continually asking the average individual to reduce our "carbon footprint", while we reduce consumption, and pay more, while trying to assist the planet, and data centers hog the available remainder electricity.

How is it the average individual are tasked with giving and shouldering the responsibility to correct and reduce consumption, pay more for electricity, yet, when small innovators, creators, and companies, who offer viable solutions and are ignored?

The idea of "increase market revenue", is accomplished through efficiency improvements by selling more with reduced loss, reducing waste heat, and improving sustainability. Shouldn't we be asking questions as to motives, insider shoulder rubbing, and the direction leadership is taking in these initiatives?

My random thoughts, would enjoy hearing yours, take them for what it's worth.

I’m two years into the vegetable garden adventure in zone 6b, got pretty significant beds (4 25’ x 5‘ beds) as well as random plants put anywhere that they seem like they might survive. I grow meaningful amounts of tomatoes, beans, onions, garlic greens and so on. One thing that really really flummoxes me is how few of my friends and neighbors are doing the same. We live pretty rurally so most people I know have the space to grow vegetables. But most of them aren’t. I’ve raised the point with many of my friends that food scarcity might be coming for the United States, but none of them seem to believe me or seem particularly interested in trying to prepare for it.

My sister lives in a big city, but has sufficient garden space that she could grow too. But she just shakes my head and implies that I’m nuts for worrying about it.

I told my husband the other day that I am actually worried about tomato bandits ** edited to add that I’m not seriously worried about bandits and this was kind of a joke**this summer, if the price of tomatoes really gets as high as this projected. I think he kind of thinks I’m crazy too.

Anyone else gardening as a hedge against looming food in security?

Europe buys exported oil from US and others. Trump said US had weeks of oil left, as soon as US stops exporting and reaches the minimum amount of oil needed to keep infrastructure from collapsing what will happen to those buying from US? And Europe in general doesn't even produce it's own oil, what will the crisis look like for Europe

They say they made agreement now there is no more deal and it's like this issue has been going on for several months now. And the shortage of oil seems to be on the horizon.

Price for Xbox is increasing due to shortage of memory.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-xbox-console-price-increase/