Winter Storms, Summer Heat, and our 3rd World Electric System
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This made me laugh a bit
nypost.com
Texans use Whataburger app — not power company — to stay updated on outages after Hurricane Beryl
“The Whataburger app works as a power outage tracker, handy since the electric company doesn’t show a map,” the account tweeted on Monday. “Still nearly 1.9 million power outages.”
nypost.com
This made me laugh a bit
Texans use Whataburger app — not power company — to stay updated on outages after Hurricane Beryl
“The Whataburger app works as a power outage tracker, handy since the electric company doesn’t show a map,” the account tweeted on Monday. “Still nearly 1.9 million power outages.”
Is there anything Whataburger can't do?
Not screw up my order every time I go there?
Switch back to the old vendors from the "Chicago mafia chosen" vendors. For five years, I ate a Whataburger sausage & biscuit almost every morning for breakfast. Since they changed vendors, I can't get passed the first bite.
One of the new Whataburger management team from Chicago met with me face to face at my favorite location and told me, "it's the same thing you had before",
My response, "No Texan is that ******* dumb, but being from Chicago I guess you are"
Then he told me that Sysco wasn't big enough to handle their expansion.
I've been eating Whataburger for over 30 years and I have never once had my order wrong. Of course I usually just order from the menu vs custom changes.
Memorial Villages were told this afternoon that it may be Sunday before they get power.
Gotta love Center Point representatives. They need to be sent to "Liars Are US" for education. Douchebag today said they have assembled the largest repair group in their history; over 11,000.
Message to the dumbass - where were you in 2008 when we had no power for 13 days, and the repair group included hundreds, if not thousands from Alabama & North Carolina doing all the work Center Point should have been doing for years?
Gotta love Center Point representatives. They need to be sent to "Liars Are US" for education. Douchebag today said they have assembled the largest repair group in their history; over 11,000.
Message to the dumbass - where were you in 2008 when we had no power for 13 days, and the repair group included hundreds, if not thousands from Alabama & North Carolina doing all the work Center Point should have been doing for years?
Entergy saying everyone should have power by Sunday evening.
www.entergynewsroom.com
Entergy Texas Hurricane Beryl update – 7/10/24, 7:30 p.m.
Crews restore more than 50% of customers two days after Hurricane Beryl’s landfall.
www.entergynewsroom.com
Entergy saying everyone should have power by Sunday evening.
Entergy Texas Hurricane Beryl update – 7/10/24, 7:30 p.m.
Crews restore more than 50% of customers two days after Hurricane Beryl’s landfall.
That is Entergy, which does MC a bunch of good, but no one in Houston, particularly the Memorial Villages. I don't like Entergy, BUT George Mitchell knew what he was doing when he chose them over HL&P for The Woodlands.
If either of my children have power Sunday, send my card to the Methodist Cardiac Care Unit.
And if you believe that, well...aren't you special.Entergy saying everyone should have power by Sunday evening.
Entergy Texas Hurricane Beryl update – 7/10/24, 7:30 p.m.
Crews restore more than 50% of customers two days after Hurricane Beryl’s landfall.
Monahorns
10,000+ Posts
"De-regulation" is a misnomer. Regulations weren't eliminated or even reduced. The powers that be (state governments mostly) set up a new "and better" regulatory system that wasn't actually better, because it prioritized spot price cost and ignored reliability.
That regulatory structure facilitated solar and wind investment and introduction into the grid.
If you had a real market based electrical grid, reliability would be an absolute requirement with cost being a very important second. Type of power source would be important to some but they would face the harsh reality of brown outs and black outs.
4321, not sure of your intent, but basically the Texas Grid is not interconnected with the remainder of the US grid network. Texas has its problems, but they pale with the remainder of the US when there is not currently a pathway going forward to provide anywhere near the power needed 10 to 20 years from now due to move to everything electric (vehicles, construction equipment, data/AI centers).
Energy experts weigh in on Texas’ power grid sustainability compared to 2021
“These kinds of temperatures don’t lead to levels of demand that are particularly difficult to meet,” energy expert Doug Lewin explained
Reading between the lines--this Winter storm isn't that big of a deal...
Hilarious, and proof that dumb stuff you say on the internet (thinking you're dunking on a political opponent) can come back to bite you in the ***, HARD!
Idiot shows he doesn't understand that prolonged outages in Houston were downed lines, not the ERCOT system.
We've been dealing with hurricanes for much longer than that moron has been alive. From my understanding the electricity delivery company changed and that's what caused everything. Employees refusing to work, refusing help from other providers, etc.
Centerpoint definitely screwed the pooch...just as Oncor does in the DFW area.
He’s pretty much self-promotional. Former CIA guy. Internationalist in outlook. Skeptical of Trump but can explain how he became so popular. Likes to overpump China’s power to drum up support for more defense spending.
Will call out every side when they overreach. But tied to conventional thinking and analysis. Soul child of George H W Bush.
Monahorns
10,000+ Posts
He was a part of Austin based Stratfor that did geopolitical analysis. Stratfor information was outed as a part of wiki links. I went to church with one of the editors. She was getting calls in the middle of church when it all happened. The company disbanded and the people had to figure out their own way. Zeihan kept doing the some analysis and went solo basically.
Powerful winter storm is coming to Houston. Here's when snow and ice will start falling. - NewsBreak
Temps have already plummeted across Southeast Texas, but the main story will be the chance of significant snow and ice later this week.
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