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.
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.