Well, that was dumb: hockey team in solar-powered ice arena schedules an after-sunset game

Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle has lighting “issues” as power comes and goes

CEO Tod Leiweke was even spotted up in the arena’s rafters trying unsuccessfully to resolve the partially dimmed lights in the rink’s eastern portion, which caused an early 10-minute delay and then more stoppages as both teams kept changing ends midway through each period to offset any disadvantages. Leiweke and company will have plenty of time to resolve the situation — attributed to “an electrical issue in the arena’s lighting grid” — as the Kraken’s 4-1 loss to the visiting New York Rangers was their final home game before an upcoming four-city, cross-continent road trip.

What could have caused these fluctuations? Who could have expected them? One trained scientist offers a hint:

It will be fun — not — when manufacturing in this country is also required to depend on intermittent, variable power. Those results, too, will be met with wonder and surprise by the sheeple, but not their herders.