A nonsense scenario.
You use transitional backup like gas during that period. If you were sensible you'd also have a decent amount of gas storage.
Two weeks later they are still trying to find enough spinning capacity to get the thing restarted.
Gas turbine reserves. Up in hours.
Their heating needs power to operate the gas boilers and cookers
Or heat pumps and electric cookers.
Now the problem with solar is that most of it is not under the control of the grid operator, so they cannot turn it off.
No, it's under control of the grid operators. That's how they ensure they can work on parts of the grid - they command the domestic solar to shut down and other contributors are utilty-scale.
the central government is incapable of building anything big
. Central government isn't building it, it's EDF.
You may recall that there was a series of heatwaves and droughts across North America during the 1930's that devastated agriculture and set 13 State heat records that still stand.
Yes, and the average was still cooler than today.
Oh, the temperatures were quite remarkable and remain so now. It was hotter then than it is now. And we are referring to the same locale.
The average temperature in places like Arizona is approximately 1C greater than it was 100 years ago. There were some rather short events in the 1930s when peak temperature was very high, but even then the average is lower than now. It being hot in July 1936 does not mean the 1930s in general in SW USA was hotter than now. And the year is longer than summer.
No one on the planet has reliable rainfall data for even last 120 years.
Do some research.
What we're dealing with in the West is not a drought because the current lack of rainfall isn't "abnormal" for a desert
Lowest in 1200 years seems abnormal to me, even for a desert.
The fact that we got weirdly lucky with unseasonably wet weather for a few decades
Or 1200 years.
The 20th century was abnormally wet and rainy
Lowest rainfall for 1200 years.
We had a big ol' heatwave and drought in the 1930's.
In the USA, although the temperatures would not be so remarkable today. But it was pretty localised.
Back then, our farming practices weren't able to handle it, but we made some big changes in response.
Best not to test whether the changes work, I'd say.
The sooner you make your first 5000 mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them. -- Nicolaides
