Would the power grid be able to handle this? (“Record temperatures, raging fires, a strained power grid: California heat wave in full effect,” Sept. 1)If school playgrounds are too hot for outside activities, presumably students would return to classrooms. Nathan Adair, Burbank..To the editor: The world is switching to electric cars, and because of the ongoing heatwave, there is concern about the power grid failing. Congress can pass a bill to spend a few hundred billion dollars or more to upgrade weak areas of the electric grid. If there is money to forgive college debt, there has to be money for the electric grid — unless we’re really, really stupid.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 04, 2022 22:03 UTC