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Winter Storms, Summer Heat, and our 3rd World Electric System
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Horn2RunAgain
2,500+ Posts
My electric & gas combined bill is the same as yours. Fiber optic internet is $65.
Great, we will be sure to refer the 1,000 per day californian invaders and 2,000 illegals crossing the border a day to Oklahoma. I'm really curious more about water supplies than electricity. Just a matter of time until all the incoming idiots drain all of our aquifers.
That's the problem. We're quickly outgrowing our infrastructure. Okies have no electricity problems because nobody wants to live in that ********.
Where did you find Willie Brown's wallet photo of Quemala?
Monahorns
10,000+ Posts
That is part of it. So is an anti-human and development mind set in those who hold power. I think Abbott is making money off of renewable advocacy. The wind and solar companies are getting a large amount of government dollars.
Monahorns
10,000+ Posts
That and Texas has actively shut down power plants that weren't at full life time yet. That and they won't build more.
It was a problem created apparently by two things: ONE company having issues (Oncor) and the fact that the State was only getting 17% output from the wind-based generation facilities.
Maybe, and I am just spitballing here, reliance on wind and solar is not all it is cracked up to be...
A portfolio approach with more than just a nod toward reducing CO2 or methane into the atmosphere sounds good in theory.
There are three things that are critical in our sources of energy:
1) Safety
2) Reliability
3) Affordability
As a society, we've added a fourth:
4) Environmentally friendly
You could make a complete speech or brief about all four of those items but in the end, what we want is that heat or air-conditioning on demand. Too many things go wrong (including the loss of lives) when it's not available.
There is a sweet spot somewhere but what I'm hoping is that the renewables are more hedge than primary.
The argument could be made that our renewable portion of the portfolio was at fault if we substituted renewables for natural gas. Of course, natural gas is not 100% reliable but if you substitute something that is even less reliable then what is at fault?
In the end, the primary source of electrical generation power should be the most reliable method we have. But it must be safe. And it must be affordable. And it must not pollute the environment.
T'aint easy.
Start by eliminating tires from all cars & trucks, then all playing surfaces return to grass, wood, concrete. Ain't happening, particularly when the federal government wants to bury tires, which take only about 50,000 years to dissolve all the while they leach oil into the ground and methane gas into the air.
I literally laughed out loud at this.
mb,
Are you old enough to remember Jimmy Carter's favorite words - "the more plentiful coal"?
Yes...and old enough to remember the seam that is STILL burning in Centralia and basically killed a town because it burned so hot.
That a m uch better deal than o get in Lewisville Texas.
OUBubba
5,000+ Posts
My trailer is well insulated. I do have the oldest and smallest house in our little 40 lot rural subdivision. We also had a kitchen fire in 2016 (thanks obama!) and we got to get new sprayed insulation in the attic. Two thumbs up!
It's an electric co-op. They do an outstanding job.
Statalyzer
10,000+ Posts
Also, having it get super hot in May-September is routine here. At least two Februaries ago we sort of had the "well it never gets that cold for that long here" reason. Any crap about well it's hotter than usual is just a ******** excuse. We know it's going to get really damn hot pretty much every summer and there is no possible reason short of incompetence that we wouldn't be prepared for it.
If the left would get off of their demands for all of the restrictions on functional means of power generation, the problem would be mitigated. Instead, they demand we move to a reliance on crap like wind which, based on the Friday table, was generating only 17% of its capacity, which tends to suggest that reliance on wind is NOT going to be the be-all, end-all that the anti-coal, anti-oil, anti-nuclear crowds believe it to be...
I sincerely hope that some of the Republican candidates for office seize on this to point out that the national grid is arguably in worse shape, risk wise, than is the ERCOT grid...and the national grid is what Beta wants to attach Texas to.
OUBubba
5,000+ Posts
Can you link that? That’s an area of curiosity for me.
Besides the MISO request a few posts up, I think it was Barrons or Reuters that just did an article. I also saw a few articles which try to shift blame to aging infrastructure, but there was also comment about the push away from coal/gas to wind/solar being problematic (something we ALSO just saw last week when the ERCOT tables showed the Texas wind equipment only operating at a 17% efficiency/capacity compared to capabilities).
It was just within the past few days, so Google should not have buried it too deep yet...try as they might.
Remember, he has me on ignore so he can't see that MISO post.
Balls to the wall on nuclear!
Brandon wants more windmills!
which SHOULD tell everyone it is a failed concept...the ONLY thing this regime has done positive is show the nation why you don't vote against someone because of tweets. Every other policy decision has been nothing short of abject failure...
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