People Who Moved To Texas From California Finally Feeling At Home Now That Power Is Out

[WeToddDid2]

You are right on time. Very impressive.

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That has some spin in it. For years, they have been taking natgas plants offline as quickly as possible and replacing it with wind turbines. He completely failed to mention the plants that have been taken offline. Furthermore, it is not feasible to expand existing plants or to construct new plants due to the new standards and regulations. That is the truth. I don't care what some spin doctor from the ERCOT is stating

Currently, wind makes up approx. 20% of the energy production in Texas.

 

[WeToddDid2]

As I have stated for years, the current tech available cannot replace fossil fuel. It is literally not possible. The only solution is new tech such as fusion or other tech that is close to the efficiency and out output of fossil fuel.

 

[LacesOut]

We need to know why Trump deported you to back to your Socialist homeland. Tranny?

I come and go as I please.
When you have dual citizenship, you have that flexibility.
Just so happens my place at the lake here in the great white north is too amazing to leave.

I’m Off to shoot some bow!!

Get fucked, loser!

 

[WeToddDid2]

You are right on time. Very impressive.

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So, you are going to rely on the opinion of the entity that failed at its responsibility? ercot is specifically the entity that should have planned for this and not allowed this to happen.

I was wrong. Wind makes up around a quarter of the energy production in Texas.

So, you honestly think that approx. 12% of the power production being taken offline doesn't matter?

https://www.statesman.com/story/new...nes-hampering-electric-generation/4483230001/
Nearly half of Texas' installed wind power generation capacity has been offline because of frozen wind turbines in West Texas, according to Texas grid operators.

 

[TreeFrogTrader]

Having been around the block a bit in life with some of these mid-winter storms, I can say that when all is said and done the most deaths usually come from people running generators and the carbon monoxide. Rather than the actual freezing to death or trees down. Driving over downed power lines or using the plow on your pickup to move the downed power lines in the road is also a popular way to speed up natural selection.

It is especially important for people in areas that do not regularly get snow and freezing conditions to stay smart because it is the most common tricks that kill people. 1) Why don't I just burn some charcoal briquets in my fireplace....boom.... you iz dead. 2) "I know I cannot run my generator inside but I iz smart and will run it in my basement with all the windows open but still have the power upstairs." ...boom.....you and the entire family iz dead.

Yeh, the Winter Wonderland stuff is not all that it is cracked up to be sometimes.

Enjoy.

Probably I could have held off making my post above and just posted this article instead if I had seen it or if the event had happened by then.

Lord have Mercy.

At Least 1 Parent Dead, 10 Pediatric Patients In Hospital With Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, ‘Just Trying To Keep Their Children Warm’


https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/02/16...ning-just-trying-to-keep-their-children-warm/

 

[WeToddDid2]

You are right on time. Very impressive.

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Looks like you were the one that was right on time. The issue in Texas is specifically green energy.

They should have never taken the natgas plants offline. The should have

https://www.everythinglubbock.com/n...lectricity-customers-in-other-parts-of-state/

A good portion of electricity delivered to customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin areas is provided by wind farms in West Texas. With extreme cold weather, those wind turbines cannot operate, thus causing a shortage in renewable energy available for use.

“There also aren’t enough natural gas producers in the state to make up the difference when those wind turbines aren’t available,” said Harral.

That is a quote from a CEO of a renewable energy company.

“If there’s any concern about the safety of operating a wind farm or your personnel, then you don’t operate,” said Mark Harral, Chief Executive Officer of GroupNIRE, a Lubbock-based renewable energy solutions company.

 

[jem]

Hey... lets close down some more pipelines too.

Clean energy may be the future and I do believe we should conserve the environment... but let's not forget about the present and let's demand real science not slogans and a fake consensus.

 

[Overnight]

I come and go as I please.
When you have dual citizenship, you have that flexibility.
Just so happens my place at the lake here in the great white north is too amazing to leave.

I’m Off to shoot some bow!!...

Ahh, so this was you? Ohh yah.

 

[Overnight]

Hey... lets close down some more pipelines too.

Clean energy may be the future and I do believe we should conserve the environment... but let's not forget about the present and let's demand real science not slogans and a fake consensus.

Um, no, green energy is not the future for a long long time. The environment is doing just fine. Our attempts to fix what is not broken is breaking it further.

 

[jem]

I think our oceans might be telling us otherwise.

The oceans are warming and that is probably causing temps to rise over land...
And the warming is concentrated in the Indian ocean per the last study I read.... and the Indian is probably warming due to underground vents... (ice shelves are melting for the same reason)

But... Hanauma Bay in HI. One of the saddest things I have witnessed when you contrast the first time I was there in the late 80s to 2 years ago.

Other areas I have gone diving show reefs being bleached out all around the world. (maybe from sun screen.)

Fisheries are decimated in many places. Fish and other life in the ocean which were plentiful when I was younger are now almost gone.

The Coastal areas of San Diego are dirty and because dangerous after storms.


We can and should do better.