Freezing to death will certainly reduce people's carbon footprint.
Anyone else just blown away by the irony of Texas, a massive energy exporting state, not able to keep itself warm? That's like starving to death in an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Texan here. The biggest issue we have right now is that our power plants are just not set up to deal with this kind of cold. It’s nothing that can’t be handled, but it requires investment in certain mitigation measures that 99.999999% of the time here aren’t required.
This isn’t political. Trying to make this political is only going to let the Democrats fuck us.
Apparently this has only happened like four times in the past 150 years. Maybe never for Galveston, I don’t know.
Where I live, we’re in that weird slice of the state that’s on Louisiana’s grid. Apparently one of their main natural gas plants went down, which is why we have outages right now in our area.
I mean, energy is generated by steam turbines. Which means there’s a ton of water in the system that can freeze and burst piping. Preventing problems like that is expensive. Now Oklahoma is getting slammed too, but I’d bet their infrastructure is modified to deal with this. If you look at the power outage maps, the entire gulf coast is being impacted.
I do think this is an excellent warning for why fully transitioning to “green” leaves us more at the mercy of weather events. HOWEVER, the primary cause of this here in Texas is not wind power. What the Democrats in our state are currently claiming is that deregulation caused this. So they’re going to use this to fuck us all over while y’all are wanking about windmills.
100% can confirm, dems are pushing the regulation approach but I'm hoping most of the normies wake up to the fact that 100% renewable grid is a pipe dream that will never happen. You can have some renewable but always make sure the fossil fuel grid can power everything 100% but yeah, these power plants should have been weatherized better. We currently have a glut of natural gas on the market, in storage, and events like this would allow that excess gas to be burned off.
I agree. Why am I required by law to carry 1 in a million insurance on things but the government can exclude contingency plans for high power usage? If it happens 4 times every 150 years, then why would you take the risk of not being prepared when millions of lives are at risk?
Honestly, this doesn't seem like a left or right issue. If the government tasked private companies to account for this rarely occurring contingency, private enterprise would be screaming "socialism" "undue burden" "too much red tape." The other way around, you get what you're seeing now.
every unburned house with a smoke detector is proof of your point.
Once you know something there's no excuse to pretend it was too low risk.
Likewise Cuomo placing sick people in old age homes knowing it would kill off old people. It doesn't happen that often until you get a pandemic and its the first thing that happens.
I agree with you. The windmills freezing up I heard cut anywhere from 20%-40% of the available power too. I'd give it a week and I bet Texas is up and running like normal
PATRIOTS, WE ALL NEED TO PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE BEING PLACED IN HARMS WAY DUE TO SUBVERSION OF OUR POWER INFRASTRUCTURE. WE MUST PRAY FOR WARMER WEATHER TO TAKE THE STRESS OFF OF THE SYSTEM. AND PRAY FOR JUSTICE FOR THE TRAITORS WHO LED US TO THIS PLACE. PLEASE PRAY NOW. GOD WILL NOT LET HIS CHILDREN FREEZE TO DEATH.
taking stress off the system only ensures we continue the status quo. The best thing that could happen is another month or two of freezing temperatures in Texas to force people to open their fucking eyes and start producing OIL and burning the fuck out of it.
Feds should sell all that land to individual landowners (pedes) and pay down some debt. Pedes can then frack, build pipelines and whatnot to restore energy independence.
Bingo- seems rather fitting- make a place only used to heat become bitter cold and icy for the sake of destruction and stupid so called reducing the carbon emissions
This shit isn't effective at all. Wind and solar are expensive to build, their power generation is completely unreliable meaning you need traditional power plants on 80% standby at all times to step in for their unreliable asses.
If not for Govt money and bribes, this crap would be nonexistent except for fringe uses.
It is just a good idea in general to prep for natural disasters in your area. Having a backup power supply, method to cook without utilities is literally the first step to preparing. The people who are getting royally fucked right now are the people who literally did NOTHING to prepare for ANY type of disaster. These are the same type of idiots that rode out hurricane Katrina then cried when they were stuck in their house.
Just to let you guys know, as a Canadian, you should be aware that Solar and Wind power are useless in winter. One is that there is a lot less sun ( very long nights and very cloudy day) and two is that the very low temperature are too disadvantageous. This is a very good warning for future projects.
Here in WA state our officials are trying to tear down all of our hydroelectric damns that makes electricity here dirt cheap and reliable, and is the cornerstone of the economy in eastern WA.
I think it's because of this that the globalists who rule over us, have decided that hydro-electric power is not clean renewable energy. They claim it kills fish, even though most of these damns have perfectly effective fish ladders.
CA even refuses to buy hydro power from the northwest cause it's not "green". This is full clown world in action. They are trying to de-industrialize the west.
The cornerstone of the "green" agenda is population reduction. That includes starving and freezing the filthy peasants, while they beg for it on social media.
Yeah, no one ever believes them when they tell their evils plans, in advance, but if one just listens, they will never be surprised. So, don’t think for a second that they won’t come for the 2A and throw us “terrorists” in re-education camps...
Well, this Pat is sitting on about 4 months of food, 50 gal of gas, a generator, plenty of fire wood, and a sweet ass home made wood burning stove. They are going to have to do better than this, because spring and fishing season starts in a little over 3 months, and I could live like this forever. Don’t threaten me with a good time lol
Agreed. I've been saving food, 5 gallon water containers, firewood, propane for stove and so on. I knew one day this sort of thing would come and I'm doing just fine.
When people have power they will crank the heat, run the gas/electric stove, use any type of portable and dangerous heater...it’s what you have to do and I can’t blame people, but we’re a 1st world county and this is unacceptable.
This is what’s happening. But it’s more fun to joke about the windmills. I agree it’s a great example for a “what if” argument, but the real story is that equipment is just frozen up.
It might not be wholly related to green energy’s failure right now (wind turbines frozen; solar panels covered in snow), but it is a great wakeup call that A. we’re not ready to get rid of fossil fuels and may never be able to B. Our energy infrastructure seems to be shit
Didn't the creators of covid, great reset, dark winter etc. warn about this? Oh, but we were called crazy for taking them at their evil word. Save "Conspiracy theories" for the chupacabra and bigfoot chilling in the woods, this ain't a conspiracy theory these globalists are up to something. Somewhere there's a dude with an eyepatch and a cat on his lap cackling.
EDIT: I'm an idiot, so you don't need to believe me LOL
There’s nothing wrong with power in Oklahoma. Idk where this dipshit got their info. My power was out less than an hour. Plus, we don’t use the wind turbine bs here. Maybe far east OK, but even that is not a legitimate source of power for them. Plus, I haven’t heard anything about raising gas (guessing natural gas?) prices up 40%. Calling bs on that as well. Oklahoma is a top 3 natural gas producer, nationally. B-b-b-buulllshit.
I have pipeline stocks that I bought for stupid cheap because idiots thought "GREEN ENERGY IS THE FUTURE". I'm collecting 8% dividends on these bad boys now and the share price is only going up! I'm laughing all the way to the bay.
Hope all the folks affected down there will be OK. Sitting in a freezing house with no power is awful - I have experienced it a number of times.
My Mr. heard something about refineries down south closing down because of the weather, so he ran out and gassed up both cars. Tomorrow the gas stations up here will have the prices jacked way up due to that.
I have a hard time not thinking that they have manipulated the weather as such. The government can manipulate weather. At this point I wouldn't put anything past them
Northwest Arkansas pede here. This is the worst sustained cold & snow that we've seen in probably almost 30 years, if my memory serves me. We were lucky to avoid the rolling blackout at our house last night, where it was -8 degrees. We just aren't set up for that kind of cold, as we almost never see it. It's 16 degrees now, and they're talking like the power could go out at any time. It won't get above freezing until Saturday, and is likely to snow some more before it does. In the past 20 years, we'd go some winters without even seeing snow on the ground, and when we do, the temps usually rise high enough the next day to remove it. It's been very rare to see snow on the ground for any sustained amount of time.
Not defending wind power but this is a once in probably 100 year weather condition in the southern US. The Texas electric grid is built for air conditioning with or without windmills. I bet many houses in TX have electric heat because its not used as often (Florida is this way. Nobody has gas heat) So in cold weather, those electric heat coils murder the power plants.
Nah were just entering a grand solar minimum as NASA has warned the last decade and the lobbying global warming groups spent millions of dollars paying off NASA to keep their mouths closed that the sun being in hibernation will lead to a miniature ice age. Like the Maunder Minimum of 1645 lasting to about 1715 being the most recent grand solar minimum. They just don't want you to hear about it cause it'll tarnish their green energy plot.
I hate that we were right about Biden. I hate that we were saying the coal industry would collapse and that gas would skyrocket. I hate knowing that this thief is sitting there, signing who knows what, and is fucking over people because of "Green Energy" which, wind isn't green. It costs more to use. Nuclear power would be better. But people are scared of the big N. I for one welcome it.
yup, can't use just natural gas as a hedge against unreliable 'green' solar/wind/etc. We need coal. And nuclear. Lots of coal and lots of nuclear...and need to get rid of the impossible coal emissions standards, just like we need to get rid of the impossible CAFE standards that are forcing auto companies to build electric cars that NO ONE WANTS.
Freezing to death will certainly reduce people's carbon footprint.
Anyone else just blown away by the irony of Texas, a massive energy exporting state, not able to keep itself warm? That's like starving to death in an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Texan here. The biggest issue we have right now is that our power plants are just not set up to deal with this kind of cold. It’s nothing that can’t be handled, but it requires investment in certain mitigation measures that 99.999999% of the time here aren’t required.
This isn’t political. Trying to make this political is only going to let the Democrats fuck us.
Was thinking that. I've never seen or even heard of snow in Galveston.
Apparently this has only happened like four times in the past 150 years. Maybe never for Galveston, I don’t know.
Where I live, we’re in that weird slice of the state that’s on Louisiana’s grid. Apparently one of their main natural gas plants went down, which is why we have outages right now in our area.
I mean, energy is generated by steam turbines. Which means there’s a ton of water in the system that can freeze and burst piping. Preventing problems like that is expensive. Now Oklahoma is getting slammed too, but I’d bet their infrastructure is modified to deal with this. If you look at the power outage maps, the entire gulf coast is being impacted.
I do think this is an excellent warning for why fully transitioning to “green” leaves us more at the mercy of weather events. HOWEVER, the primary cause of this here in Texas is not wind power. What the Democrats in our state are currently claiming is that deregulation caused this. So they’re going to use this to fuck us all over while y’all are wanking about windmills.
100% can confirm, dems are pushing the regulation approach but I'm hoping most of the normies wake up to the fact that 100% renewable grid is a pipe dream that will never happen. You can have some renewable but always make sure the fossil fuel grid can power everything 100% but yeah, these power plants should have been weatherized better. We currently have a glut of natural gas on the market, in storage, and events like this would allow that excess gas to be burned off.
Better pick one of these up from walmart or harbor freight.
https://www.harborfreight.com/15000-btu-tank-top-propane-heater-63073.html
Boy I tell you what, Strickland Propane has all your propane and propane accessories covered. Just tell 'em Hank Hill sent you.
Or buy quality, if it is a lifesaving device.
I agree. Why am I required by law to carry 1 in a million insurance on things but the government can exclude contingency plans for high power usage? If it happens 4 times every 150 years, then why would you take the risk of not being prepared when millions of lives are at risk?
Usually it always boils down to $.
Honestly, this doesn't seem like a left or right issue. If the government tasked private companies to account for this rarely occurring contingency, private enterprise would be screaming "socialism" "undue burden" "too much red tape." The other way around, you get what you're seeing now.
Because they can
every unburned house with a smoke detector is proof of your point.
Once you know something there's no excuse to pretend it was too low risk.
Likewise Cuomo placing sick people in old age homes knowing it would kill off old people. It doesn't happen that often until you get a pandemic and its the first thing that happens.
I agree with you. The windmills freezing up I heard cut anywhere from 20%-40% of the available power too. I'd give it a week and I bet Texas is up and running like normal
Sunday and everything will be up and running
Yes it is. Ercot has to have the feds permission to increase output because it also increases emissions.
isn't communism fascinating.
PATRIOTS, WE ALL NEED TO PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE BEING PLACED IN HARMS WAY DUE TO SUBVERSION OF OUR POWER INFRASTRUCTURE. WE MUST PRAY FOR WARMER WEATHER TO TAKE THE STRESS OFF OF THE SYSTEM. AND PRAY FOR JUSTICE FOR THE TRAITORS WHO LED US TO THIS PLACE. PLEASE PRAY NOW. GOD WILL NOT LET HIS CHILDREN FREEZE TO DEATH.
God will let people freeze to death.
He gave you free will to protect yourself.
You have given up that free will and now rely on the Government to save you.
We are here alone.
Save yourself.
taking stress off the system only ensures we continue the status quo. The best thing that could happen is another month or two of freezing temperatures in Texas to force people to open their fucking eyes and start producing OIL and burning the fuck out of it.
ONLY THE DARK SIDE REQUIRES HUMAN SACRIFICE. WE HAVE SEEN ENOUGH. PATRIOTS IN TX WILL RECTIFY THIS PROBLEM.
Why do all the RED states have GREEN energy?
Part of the color revolution?
lots and lots of federal land out west... almost all of it.
Land here in Texas is all privately owned
Texas has small % but still 3M acres... NV 85%, AZ 38%, CA 45%.
Texas is more south than west.. sorry Tx
[hide]Federal land ownership by state (as of 2013) State Federal land acreage Total state acreage Percentage of federal land United States total 623,313,931 2,271,343,360 27.4% Alaska 223,803,098 365,481,600 61.2% Texas 2,998,280 168,217,600 1.8% California 45,864,800 100,206,720 45.8% Montana 27,003,251 93,271,040 29.0% New Mexico 26,981,490 77,766,400 34.7% Arizona 28,064,307 72,688,000 38.6% Nevada 59,681,502 70,264,320 84.9% Colorado 23,870,652 66,485,760 35.9% Wyoming 30,013,219 62,343,040 48.1% Oregon 32,614,185 61,598,720 52.9% Idaho 32,621,631 52,933,120 61.6% Utah 34,202,920 52,696,960 64.9% Kansas 272,987 52,510,720 0.5% Minnesota 3,491,586 51,205,760 6.8% Nebraska 546,759 49,031,680 1.1% South Dakota 2,642,601 48,881,920 5.4% North Dakota 1,736,611 44,452,480 3.9% Missouri 1,635,122 44,248,320 3.7% Oklahoma 701,365 44,087,680 1.6%
Feds should sell all that land to individual landowners (pedes) and pay down some debt. Pedes can then frack, build pipelines and whatnot to restore energy independence.
Can't have Xiden's "dark winter" without it.
Bingo- seems rather fitting- make a place only used to heat become bitter cold and icy for the sake of destruction and stupid so called reducing the carbon emissions
Well to be fair they are the only areas where they'd be somewhat effective.
This shit isn't effective at all. Wind and solar are expensive to build, their power generation is completely unreliable meaning you need traditional power plants on 80% standby at all times to step in for their unreliable asses.
If not for Govt money and bribes, this crap would be nonexistent except for fringe uses.
They are somewhat effective if you just use lefty logic and disregard all the negatives you just said.
And they decommission nuclear power while subsidize green.
I Florida in case of hurricane I have a generator and a window unit a/c to keep me alive in August with no electricity.
I have propane stoves and bbq grills with necessary accoutrements to cook.
I have a hand pump well.
Probs a good idea for none of us to rely on public utilities since if our social credit score is too low they'll cut off our power and water.
It is just a good idea in general to prep for natural disasters in your area. Having a backup power supply, method to cook without utilities is literally the first step to preparing. The people who are getting royally fucked right now are the people who literally did NOTHING to prepare for ANY type of disaster. These are the same type of idiots that rode out hurricane Katrina then cried when they were stuck in their house.
Won't this also ruin some medication or supplies?
pets.. fish reptiles etc.. fucked..
they all have huge generators
Cmon man think of the lizard people!
Just to let you guys know, as a Canadian, you should be aware that Solar and Wind power are useless in winter. One is that there is a lot less sun ( very long nights and very cloudy day) and two is that the very low temperature are too disadvantageous. This is a very good warning for future projects.
Viva the hydro electric dams!
Here in WA state our officials are trying to tear down all of our hydroelectric damns that makes electricity here dirt cheap and reliable, and is the cornerstone of the economy in eastern WA.
I think it's because of this that the globalists who rule over us, have decided that hydro-electric power is not clean renewable energy. They claim it kills fish, even though most of these damns have perfectly effective fish ladders.
CA even refuses to buy hydro power from the northwest cause it's not "green". This is full clown world in action. They are trying to de-industrialize the west.
wHat aBOut The saLMon!
sAve the sAlmOn! lEt the hUmANs diE!
The cornerstone of the "green" agenda is population reduction. That includes starving and freezing the filthy peasants, while they beg for it on social media.
guess what - this is not an accident... it is the plan. Next step is raising power prices... wait until you see your new carbon tax.. ouch
Cummins goes BRrrrrr
This is why my family has an old hay barn stacked to the rafters with seasoned firewood.
Don't forget that Biden has given China the keys to our electrical grid...
The sad thing is,. He even told us.. a dark winter...
He also told us he was going to steal the election.
Yeah, no one ever believes them when they tell their evils plans, in advance, but if one just listens, they will never be surprised. So, don’t think for a second that they won’t come for the 2A and throw us “terrorists” in re-education camps...
Global warming my ass.
This was a staged HAARP event for the Midwest which is the last region of true American Patriot states.
Well, this Pat is sitting on about 4 months of food, 50 gal of gas, a generator, plenty of fire wood, and a sweet ass home made wood burning stove. They are going to have to do better than this, because spring and fishing season starts in a little over 3 months, and I could live like this forever. Don’t threaten me with a good time lol
Agreed. I've been saving food, 5 gallon water containers, firewood, propane for stove and so on. I knew one day this sort of thing would come and I'm doing just fine.
It was -15 when I got up this morning. Green energy is a lie.
When people have power they will crank the heat, run the gas/electric stove, use any type of portable and dangerous heater...it’s what you have to do and I can’t blame people, but we’re a 1st world county and this is unacceptable.
Welcome to the new America, where our elected officials have an unrelenting hatred for their constituents
This is what’s happening. But it’s more fun to joke about the windmills. I agree it’s a great example for a “what if” argument, but the real story is that equipment is just frozen up.
It might not be wholly related to green energy’s failure right now (wind turbines frozen; solar panels covered in snow), but it is a great wakeup call that A. we’re not ready to get rid of fossil fuels and may never be able to B. Our energy infrastructure seems to be shit
God is trying to get people to wake the fuck up.
really make you huddle together for warm and get over the politics.
Rolling blackouts in Nebraska now too...
And this is how FL went from Crazy Town to The Garden of Eden in a year.
Didn't the creators of covid, great reset, dark winter etc. warn about this? Oh, but we were called crazy for taking them at their evil word. Save "Conspiracy theories" for the chupacabra and bigfoot chilling in the woods, this ain't a conspiracy theory these globalists are up to something. Somewhere there's a dude with an eyepatch and a cat on his lap cackling.
EDIT: I'm an idiot, so you don't need to believe me LOL
How the hell was that approved in these Red States? Temporary insanity?
There’s nothing wrong with power in Oklahoma. Idk where this dipshit got their info. My power was out less than an hour. Plus, we don’t use the wind turbine bs here. Maybe far east OK, but even that is not a legitimate source of power for them. Plus, I haven’t heard anything about raising gas (guessing natural gas?) prices up 40%. Calling bs on that as well. Oklahoma is a top 3 natural gas producer, nationally. B-b-b-buulllshit.
I have pipeline stocks that I bought for stupid cheap because idiots thought "GREEN ENERGY IS THE FUTURE". I'm collecting 8% dividends on these bad boys now and the share price is only going up! I'm laughing all the way to the bay.
“Blackouts for thee but not for me”
laughs in Californian
Do they even have electricity in Cali anymore?
You know all those people have backup generators in all of their houses.
I'm glad to have 2 coal fired plants 10 miles from me
How do wind turbines in Texas affect all of this? Btw If you’re at risk of freezing to death IN DOORS then go turn on your car and get warm
I remember reading something one time about a weather making machine.
Here is the Biden administration's response:
https://kotaku.com/president-biden-only-just-beat-his-granddaughter-at-mar-1846270984
Hope all the folks affected down there will be OK. Sitting in a freezing house with no power is awful - I have experienced it a number of times.
My Mr. heard something about refineries down south closing down because of the weather, so he ran out and gassed up both cars. Tomorrow the gas stations up here will have the prices jacked way up due to that.
The GDP in Chyyna will go up 5% after they make the survival junk we don’t make or are unable to improvise.
I have a hard time not thinking that they have manipulated the weather as such. The government can manipulate weather. At this point I wouldn't put anything past them
It's summer here in South Florida already, anything I can do to help?
Throw a little heat into the back of your car and haul it out to other states!
Northwest Arkansas pede here. This is the worst sustained cold & snow that we've seen in probably almost 30 years, if my memory serves me. We were lucky to avoid the rolling blackout at our house last night, where it was -8 degrees. We just aren't set up for that kind of cold, as we almost never see it. It's 16 degrees now, and they're talking like the power could go out at any time. It won't get above freezing until Saturday, and is likely to snow some more before it does. In the past 20 years, we'd go some winters without even seeing snow on the ground, and when we do, the temps usually rise high enough the next day to remove it. It's been very rare to see snow on the ground for any sustained amount of time.
I'll be buying a generator after this.
Not defending wind power but this is a once in probably 100 year weather condition in the southern US. The Texas electric grid is built for air conditioning with or without windmills. I bet many houses in TX have electric heat because its not used as often (Florida is this way. Nobody has gas heat) So in cold weather, those electric heat coils murder the power plants.
Nah were just entering a grand solar minimum as NASA has warned the last decade and the lobbying global warming groups spent millions of dollars paying off NASA to keep their mouths closed that the sun being in hibernation will lead to a miniature ice age. Like the Maunder Minimum of 1645 lasting to about 1715 being the most recent grand solar minimum. They just don't want you to hear about it cause it'll tarnish their green energy plot.
You are correct. Shit construction by illegals for the profit of white owners is the bigliest point to be made today in my opinion.
Lol, rolling blackouts here in dfw ao far are 15-24 hrs long.
Jesus H christ, that aint a rolling blackout, thats an all your base are belong to us blackout
I hate that we were right about Biden. I hate that we were saying the coal industry would collapse and that gas would skyrocket. I hate knowing that this thief is sitting there, signing who knows what, and is fucking over people because of "Green Energy" which, wind isn't green. It costs more to use. Nuclear power would be better. But people are scared of the big N. I for one welcome it.
The Coal is in the ground and not going anywhere.
There's no reason to report to DC that you're taking it our of the ground and using it.
States need to do what they're gonna do.
Easier to ask forgiveness (from God) than permission (from a Leftist)
Joe Biden should be held accountable!!!
Yay! #BidenBodyCount
1 hour blackouts ?
That’s cute
In Dallas we get about 3 hours of electricity per day.
yup, can't use just natural gas as a hedge against unreliable 'green' solar/wind/etc. We need coal. And nuclear. Lots of coal and lots of nuclear...and need to get rid of the impossible coal emissions standards, just like we need to get rid of the impossible CAFE standards that are forcing auto companies to build electric cars that NO ONE WANTS.
Funny, Kentucky shut down a lot of coal plants over the last 10 years, would come in handy right now if not for the dumbasses in power.
Green energy victims.
Get your pitchforks ready boys and girls.. I mesn you may need to shovel some hay, or manure or something.
also, global warming. Global Warming!
https://youtu.be/0dDOvEtCXh4
Hopefully they pass this on to California when they come looking to broker energy contracts.
People. If you own a house you should own a generator. That is all...
The "1 hour rolling blackouts" turned into 8 hour blackouts here. They just kept sending out updates pushing the time further and further back.
North LA pede here. So far we have been warned of rolling blackouts, but haven't seen them in my neighborhood.
Of course, the ice storm tomorrow will probably damage enough lines that it won't be an issue for a few days.