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GizModo VR
AUGUST 11, 2021
On Tuesday, Reuters reported that The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) predicted this week that the system will see peak highs in energy use this week, topping out at a possible 74,034 megawatts on Wednesday.
GizModo VR
JANUARY 20, 2022
Temperatures are dropping in central and south Texas Thursday through Friday morning as the state sees a cold front that may send temperatures plummeting as low as 18 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-8 degrees Celsius) in the Permian Basin on Thursday.
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GizModo VR
MAY 16, 2022
It’s been a record hot May in parts of Texas, and the state is in for more of the same this week. On Friday, because of the heat, six power plants in Texas went offline, taking 2,900 Megawatts off the grid, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
ARPost
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Origins: Fossils from the Cradle of Humankind will be open at the Perot Museum of Natural History in Dallas Texas until March 22. A new exhibit at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science uses augmented reality to introduce visitors to paleoanthropology. Paleoanthropology, the study of prehistoric peoples, is fascinating but can also be a difficult and intimidating topic for beginners. See Also: Augmented Reality Glasses Bring U.S. Historic Sites to Life.
Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute
The Carbon Zero, Circular Economy, is easily the most profoundly important result of digital transformation. Industry 4.0 has a massively cumulative impact on dematerialization (in all forms) and resultant decarbonization (both emissions and embodied) throughout the economy. Join panelists Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Jimmy Jia, Fabienne Durand, and their moderator Roger Strukhoff as they discuss how bending the carbon/GHG heavy linear economy to the circular is one of the hidden benefits of digital disruption.
GizModo VR
MARCH 4, 2021
Griddy, the Texas power supplier that’s made headlines recently for customers’ sky-high energy bills in the wake of widespread winter storm outages , has racked up another lawsuit.
GizModo VR
JUNE 14, 2021
Apparently, Texas’ energy grid is not only ill-equipped to handle cold weather. The increasingly ironically named Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is now asking customers to conserve electricity through Friday as hot weather grips the state ( and much of the… Read more.
GizModo VR
MARCH 4, 2021
A Texas power grid oversight official who held the spectacularly wishful belief that he could keep his job after the state’s grid sputtered last month, leading to dozens of deaths and utility bills Texans will be paying for decades , has been fired.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
Tobe Hooper’s 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a horror masterpiece—a gruesome, chilling exploration of why you shouldn’t poke around other people’s property, especially in rural Texas.
GizModo VR
JANUARY 31, 2022
Just like their murderous stars, you can’t keep a venerable horror franchise dead for long. In fact, it’s only been five years since chainsaw-enthusiast Leatherface appeared on screen in 2017's Leatherface , which served as a prequel to the original 1974 film.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 3, 2021
As the world turns, another Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel arrives, doing its best to recapture the grim, grimy magic wrought by the 1974 horror classic.
GizModo VR
MARCH 29, 2021
Getting to the bottom of last month’s deadly Texas blackouts will take time and careful research. But the state’s grid operator is making it tough to get answers. Read more.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
texas united states fahrenheit dallas weather cold wave national weather serviceIn a turn of events that will surprise exactly no one at this point, a large swath of the United States is currently experiencing an extreme and unprecedented weather event. Read more.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 22, 2022
A set of dinosaur tracks were recently found in the aptly named Dinosaur Valley State Park, which is situated in the ‘Dinosaur Capital of Texas,’ also known as Glen Rose, Texas.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Everything’s bigger in Texas—including problems with its electric grid and energy demand for bitcoin.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 13, 2020
Tobe Hooper’s 1974 Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a horror masterpiece. His 1986 Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is a horror comedy masterpiece. With another Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot due next year, we decided it was time to sift through the bones and revisit the rest.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 16, 2021
The Texas Supreme Court temporarily ruled in favor of Gov. Greg Abbott and his ban on mask mandates in the state on Sunday, according to a new report from the Texas Tribune.
GizModo VR
MARCH 17, 2021
The last standing member of Texas’s Public Utility Commission handed in his resignation on Tuesday following a report that he assured out-of-state investors who made big profits from last month’s blackouts that he was working to make sure they could keep their money.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Folks across Texas are receiving outrageous energy bills in the wake of widespread utility shutoffs during last week’s cold snap. public utility commission of texas griddy energy in texas articles electricity market
GizModo VR
JUNE 6, 2022
The Attorney General seems to want his new-ish constituent, Elon Musk, to like him so bad, he’ll use all the legal resources of Texas to gain favor. Ken Paxton apparently loves the taste of billionaire boots.
Digital Trends
MAY 23, 2022
Laws surrounding the first amendment are oftentimes messy as exampled by Texas' controversial internet anti-censorship law, House Bill 20. Features Mobile Social Media censorship Facebook freedom of speech hb 20 Texas Twitch Twitter
GizModo VR
APRIL 7, 2021
Texas’ blackouts were, experts agree, the result of multiple failures in the energy system, including failures of oil and gas infrastructure.
GizModo VR
JUNE 7, 2021
It’s been nearly four months since the devastating Texas blackouts. electrical grid energy energy development texas power crisis joshua busby electric reliability council of texas natural gas environment business finance energy crisis electric power power outage articles
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
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GizModo VR
MAY 6, 2022
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GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Almost exactly a month before Texas plunged into darkness , a panel convened in Austin to host a discussion about the superiority of the Texan electric grid. wind power climate change denial fuel energy fossil fuel articles environment texas public policy foundation renewable energy
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
A Texas woman filed a class-action lawsuit this week to the tune of $1 billion in damages against Griddy, a Texas electricity retailer that the suit alleges engaged in illegal price gouging during the widespread outages that swept through the state last week.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 16, 2021
The Texas company allegedly responsible for spilling hundreds of gallons of oil near Huntington Beach, California, in October is facing criminal charges.
GizModo VR
JUNE 24, 2022
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GizModo VR
AUGUST 17, 2021
On August 22, 1986, Tobe Hooper ’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 was released, 12 years after his original.
GizModo VR
MARCH 22, 2022
Firefighters in Texas have finally gotten the upper hand on devastating wildfires that began last week. disaster accident washington wildfires rex fields texas wildfires fire prevention greg abbott barbara fenley fire eastland environment nature emergency management terry alsabrook wildfire pollution articlesBut fires continue to blaze across areas of the state and may escalate due to dry weather, as people in some of the hardest-hit areas begin to assess the damage. Read more.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 2, 2021
But now Texas Instruments is introducing a new TI-84 graphing calculator that supports programming in Python. Graphing calculators have always been a fun way to get started with programming, though mostly in the form of games and cheat sheets.
GizModo VR
JUNE 20, 2021
Texas is one of several states suffering through a record-breaking heat wave that’s pushing electric grids to their limits.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
Salesforce made one of the biggest moves in the tech industry in light of a highly restrictive Texas abortion law on Friday.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 15, 2021
This week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he will make Texas the number one state for bitcoin. What’s more, he espoused the wonders of crypto mining as a way to prop up the state’s flailing electrical grid , a view Cancun-loving Sen.
GizModo VR
JUNE 23, 2022
Tesla plants in Germany and Texas are burning money. elon musk tesla nikola tesla gigafactory businesspeople hyperloop giga texas giga nevada tesla incNot literally of course, but these factories are losing “billions of dollars,” according to CEO Elon Musk in a recent interview.
Digital Trends
MARCH 27, 2022
Almost two years after Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Texas as the site for a new gigafactory, the facility is all set for a grand opening event in April. Cars News Cybertruck Elon Musk giga texas Tesla
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