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posted ago by Jghou ago by Jghou +1460 / -2
  1. It's cold AF, this southerner doesn't do cold. At 50 degrees it's fucking cold for me. I can count in one hand how many times I've seen snow at my home my entire life.

  2. It's been over 48 hours without power, it's fucking cold inside my house. I have a generator but no electric heaters. I've never felt the need to have them. Stores are wiped cleaned so can't find one either.

  3. It's so fucking cold that multiple pipes have already burst flooding my first floor. I didn't flood during Harvey and the 52 inches of rain that came with it but this freeze flooded my home.

  4. To the northerners that say oh that's just light sweater weather. Our infrastructure isn't designed to handle this cold. Kinda like where you're from, the infrastructure might not be able to handle 100+ degree weather for over two months straight, or 15 inches of rain in a single weekend. Our infrastructure is built for that, not prolonged subfreezing temperatures.

  5. Fuck ERCOT

  6. I'm "essential" so still have to work and do my best to take care of the family from work.

  7. I love Texas

  8. Trump is the legitimate president.

  9. Why am I making this post? Green energy is cool and all but it will never replace fossil fuels. To anyone that says solar and wind power are the future, just look at this fucking mess.

  10. I'm not waiting for the government to save me. My dad came over to my house and helped me clean and fix the pipes. My neighbors are helping me out with water, I'm helping them by letting them charge their phones and flashlights. I fired up the grill and my neighbor brought over deer meat that was going to go bad.

  11. Don't turn off my fucking gas centrepoint. The fireplace is the only heat that I have.

  12. Stay warm pedes, some of you have it way worse than I do.

Sorry I'm rambling.

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Foreign_Aid_is_Theft 3 points ago +4 / -1

The more alternatives, the less you get of conventional capacity, PERIOD.

So you have a variable supply trying to meet variable demand. When all that capacity is conventional you can adjust. When only 80% is variable and the peak happens when the 20% is offline, you have a problem. There is no way to make up that deficit. This is the problem with having a large percentage of the grid as alternative without a way to store excess power.

No one is investing in a power plant that will only operate that one random winter day out of the year.

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glow-operator-2-0 2 points ago +2 / -0

The power plant that operates one random day are diesel generators, and everyone invests in those

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Foreign_Aid_is_Theft 1 point ago +1 / -0

Why does wind get the winter off and fossil fuels have to go to school year round?

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glow-operator-2-0 1 point ago +1 / -0

If we were serious about wind energy, we'd use this design from Japan (testing done in the Phillipines).

https://challenergy.ph/our-product/

We still need fossil fuel and nuclear back ups in cold weather, because our electricity storage tech doesn't let current flow in subzero temperature.

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1d8-1 1 point ago +1 / -0

They have jet engine powered generators for peak demand handling.