The gas infrastructure was overburdened due to a lack of investment for the last 20 years. Had the investments that went into wind been placed into gas, this would have been a big nothing.
So Texas needs Ohio to come down there and teach them how to keep coal and natural gas plants running when it gets cold? Because it gets cold AF here and our main worries are if we have enough salt to pave the roads with.
The plants and all the infrastructure they need. Of course, that costs money to do and maintain, so it's probably cheaper for them to just deal with it on the rare occasions winter weather is an issue down there than to actually put the time and money in.
Ohio gets cold year after year; this is record setting levels of cold in areas not used to cold.
I'd wager that if you combined the 10 lowest cities in texas you might have one slow plow between them. Why would they have a fleet of them?
(The answer is because they are smart and could rent them out to the other unprepared states but thats kind of a gamble and one most tax payers don't want to be made with their money; rent from a private owned business if needed.)
In NC where I work when we have snow, the groundskeeping team obviously can't do any other work. They get their large and small front end loader and attach plows to all their trucks and keep all the parking lots and walkways clear until it stops snowing.
We only get any snow maybe once or twice a year, and only enough to matter every other year, and they handle it with what I assume is minimal cost by repurposing existing equipment and people, and having a couple attachable plows stored somewhere.
Is that like his statement that government needs to get these "private" companies back into energy production? Didn't he actually say that natural gas and nuclear plants have failed? You know, in the same interview where he failed to mention that half the wind power has failed?
This didn't happen in 1983 and 1989 with similar winter storms. What is one of the biggest changes? Coal. They've eliminated coal. It wasn't private companies that did that.
“Due to the severe weather and freezing temperatures across our state, many power companies have been unable to generate power, whether it’s from coal, natural gas, or wind power,” said Governor Abbott.
Coal and gas plants are a LOT more complicated than just "burn fuel, get electricity".
Same way you freeze any gas, low temperature and/or high pressure. Looks like natural gas specifically can freeze, especially before refined, with presence of water at pretty reasonable conditions if your pipes aren't insulated well.
There is a lot of water vapor in natural gas. Coming out of the ground, it's shit hot, but as it travels in pipes near the surface, it cools.
Second, is that, normally, Oklahoma weather is 90 degrees from April to October. There is ZERO winter, as it is known up north. Thus, the system is not prepared for snow, ice, cold temperatures. Pipes freeze, wall insulation is a parody, even small ice loads take out power, and streets are snot on a glass door knob slick, and impassable. The best you can expect is sand on the major intersections, maybe... Add to that people who have never been out of the state, except to Branson for a week, and have no idea of how to drive on snow or ice.
There is a state law that if a snow flake hits the ground, drive into something solid to stop...
Coal and gas plants have failed as well, according to the governor of Texas. If your plants aren't winterized, there's going to be problems.
The gas infrastructure was overburdened due to a lack of investment for the last 20 years. Had the investments that went into wind been placed into gas, this would have been a big nothing.
So Texas needs Ohio to come down there and teach them how to keep coal and natural gas plants running when it gets cold? Because it gets cold AF here and our main worries are if we have enough salt to pave the roads with.
The plants and all the infrastructure they need. Of course, that costs money to do and maintain, so it's probably cheaper for them to just deal with it on the rare occasions winter weather is an issue down there than to actually put the time and money in.
Ohio gets cold year after year; this is record setting levels of cold in areas not used to cold.
I'd wager that if you combined the 10 lowest cities in texas you might have one slow plow between them. Why would they have a fleet of them?
(The answer is because they are smart and could rent them out to the other unprepared states but thats kind of a gamble and one most tax payers don't want to be made with their money; rent from a private owned business if needed.)
In NC where I work when we have snow, the groundskeeping team obviously can't do any other work. They get their large and small front end loader and attach plows to all their trucks and keep all the parking lots and walkways clear until it stops snowing.
We only get any snow maybe once or twice a year, and only enough to matter every other year, and they handle it with what I assume is minimal cost by repurposing existing equipment and people, and having a couple attachable plows stored somewhere.
Lol, Texas ain’t even thinking about salt and roads right now. We were so unprepared as a stated it hurts.
laughs in driving down 35 on cleared roads
They found some salt for 35 after the pile up.
same
Salt is for pussies! (Laughs in Alaskan)
This just in, the fox guarding the hen house has cleared himself in all wrong doing for the great hen massacre
Is that like his statement that government needs to get these "private" companies back into energy production? Didn't he actually say that natural gas and nuclear plants have failed? You know, in the same interview where he failed to mention that half the wind power has failed?
This didn't happen in 1983 and 1989 with similar winter storms. What is one of the biggest changes? Coal. They've eliminated coal. It wasn't private companies that did that.
I don't believe that for a minute. Gas and Coal plants literally generate heat. That's what they do. They self defrost.
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-sends-additional-resources-to-local-officials-throughout-texas
Coal and gas plants are a LOT more complicated than just "burn fuel, get electricity".
How do you freeze a gas? It's that cold in Texas?
Same way you freeze any gas, low temperature and/or high pressure. Looks like natural gas specifically can freeze, especially before refined, with presence of water at pretty reasonable conditions if your pipes aren't insulated well.
There is a lot of water vapor in natural gas. Coming out of the ground, it's shit hot, but as it travels in pipes near the surface, it cools.
Second, is that, normally, Oklahoma weather is 90 degrees from April to October. There is ZERO winter, as it is known up north. Thus, the system is not prepared for snow, ice, cold temperatures. Pipes freeze, wall insulation is a parody, even small ice loads take out power, and streets are snot on a glass door knob slick, and impassable. The best you can expect is sand on the major intersections, maybe... Add to that people who have never been out of the state, except to Branson for a week, and have no idea of how to drive on snow or ice. There is a state law that if a snow flake hits the ground, drive into something solid to stop...