The Texas grid loses — to Arizona, New York, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
The damage from the grid failure continues — deaths and funerals, bankruptcies, lawsuits, and more.
By Ed Hirs
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In 1998, about the time that Texas began to change the way it regulated electric utilities, NASA launched the Mars Climate Orbiter. It crashed on Mars due to a simple error, failing to convert English measures to and from the metric system. At any point in the design or even during the monthslong transit, the error could have been corrected. It was not. Last month, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars. NASA learned from its mistakes.