Yup. Major mis-information campeign. There was and still is issues with fossil fuels, but the large issue was wind and solar being non-existant.
On a typical day 20% or more of the grid is fed by Wind and Solar.
Monday is was zero and Tuesday lower than 10%.
Natural gas also had a availability issue since homes were heating with natural gas, so even though there are fast deployment natural gas generation some of it didn't litterally have fuel to run. Couple that with one of our 4 nuke reactors going off line because of a sensor failure and here we are.
Can you blame wind and solar, well yes. There is 300 billion that was invested in them. A smart bet would have been to build redundancy and investing in fossil fuels as well but this was taboo. I don't object to hybrid strategy, but this mass deployment without backup was just a bad idea.
They did fail in some regards, but it was because they weren’t winterized/poor planning, however, neither failed as catastrophically as wind turbines, so still better outcome than if everything was reliant on wind & solar.
Maybe wind, but not solar. If I had solar panels on my roof, I would still have had energy for the week instead of being reliant upon the power grid.
And for all those saying "but solar panels don't work in the snow"... even though it was snowing, the skies were clear most of the time and there was plenty of sunlight. As far as the snow covering the solar panels, it would be far easier for me to just climb on the roof and scrape down the snow from the panels in the morning than sit around waiting for the power grid to get its shit together or driving down to the gas station to fill containers for the generator. Not to mention that there would be sufficient amount stored in the battery reserves to at least power some essentials for a little bit instead of it being completely dark and cold.
This is distributed solar, which is excellent and pretty much the only way to make it feasible in the forseeable future (competes with retail rates). Also... Solar panels on a home roof are an individual choice. The problem is not all renewables in all forms. The problem is forcing ineffective non-solutions on the masses for political reasons.
They pull this shit outta their asses. I live in the weakest area of the east Texas grid; and if anyone so much as lets a fart, the electricity goes out. But, I'm here to tell y'all that I've had absolutely no interruptions in the course of the storm.
I'm in East Texas too, and we've had power the whole time as well. Even though Texas has it's own power grid (ERCOT), it doesn't actually cover the whole state. The county I'm in is not on the ERCOT grid, is yours? I also figure this is why we haven't had the rolling blackouts like so many others in the state.
Montgomery County, a bit north of Conroe (near Willis), and it is on the ERCOT, but Walker Co, just north of me, isn't. I also live out in the country, not in city-limits. Perhaps the blackouts only affect cities?
That's cool, I'm currently in Polk County, but I spend a lot of time in that area and even lived in Willis for a few years (2010-2013). I'll assume you're also familiar with SHECO then... their outage map shows all power is currently on, but at the beginning of all this, the rolling blackouts were only in counties on the ERCOT grid. As far as blackouts only affecting cities, my mom lives in Walker county, out in the sticks west of Huntsville, and the power at her place has been off and on every few hours the last few days, obviously part of the rolling blackouts. Thankfully, they appear to have ended, at least in her area, because she had power all day today. I just can't figure out the logic to any of this, none of it makes any sense.
Side note: I'm a building designer (basically a notch below architect). If you know where Sam's Liquor and Donuts is in Willis, the building going up behind them is one of our designs. It's not the prettiest thing, but the owners cheaped out on the nicer features we had planned.
If she's out on Hwy 30, going to Shiro and Roans Prairie, maybe she came under the authority of the Bryan-College Station generating plant? They appear to have new infrastructure out there.
She's a little south of 30, out in the woods between 1791 and 1374, so I guess SW of Huntsville would be more accurate. I know the plant you're talking about though (Tenaska Frontier, I think?). I pass it on my way to Bryan every once in a while, along with that stinky ass landfill.
Looking at the actual SHECO coverage map, she just might be getting power from that station, as her area is not covered by SHECO.
Yah, I know the road--turn left at Alpha Omega Academy and it goes down to Montgomery. My jeweler friend in Huntsville lives in Plantersville and drives that road every day. There's also a generating plant near Willis, out on Longstreet Road (where the Love's Truckstop is), and their infrastructure is new, too. That's the plant that I think services my area.
I didn't know about that plant, but that would make sense. It looks like temps will stay above freezing starting Saturday, so hopefully we can all get some relief and crews can get this shit fixed.
Hold on a sec, here me out? I believe windmills are so SHITTY they provide only a decimal percentage (less than one percent) of total power? And that the power plants there just aren't winterized? Someone please SMACK ME DOWN if they belive this is wrong. I think its important to complain when you are factually correct
Might have the equivalent thinking ability to a four year old.
.
There is also a video from the Obama Error, when she was the loudmouth then. She "explained" to all the "journalists" that Russia got all their energy because Western Europe gave it to them.
Eventually, she figured out she was backwards, and completely wrong.
how the hell can anyone believe it to be gas and coal? BULLSHIT
There’s a massive reality distortion field around the White House right now. Reality, the new term for economic collapse, is coming.
Yeah it’s full on Wandavision in DC... that’s why they put the parameter around it
Yup. Major mis-information campeign. There was and still is issues with fossil fuels, but the large issue was wind and solar being non-existant.
On a typical day 20% or more of the grid is fed by Wind and Solar. Monday is was zero and Tuesday lower than 10%.
Natural gas also had a availability issue since homes were heating with natural gas, so even though there are fast deployment natural gas generation some of it didn't litterally have fuel to run. Couple that with one of our 4 nuke reactors going off line because of a sensor failure and here we are.
Can you blame wind and solar, well yes. There is 300 billion that was invested in them. A smart bet would have been to build redundancy and investing in fossil fuels as well but this was taboo. I don't object to hybrid strategy, but this mass deployment without backup was just a bad idea.
Step 1) Be a retard
Considering Obama helped shut down coal plants in Texas. https://thenewamerican.com/obama-epa-war-on-coal-to-shut-200-coal-fired-plants-devastate-economy/
Because they are former Obama voters! YUGE SHEEP!
They did fail in some regards, but it was because they weren’t winterized/poor planning, however, neither failed as catastrophically as wind turbines, so still better outcome than if everything was reliant on wind & solar.
Maybe wind, but not solar. If I had solar panels on my roof, I would still have had energy for the week instead of being reliant upon the power grid.
And for all those saying "but solar panels don't work in the snow"... even though it was snowing, the skies were clear most of the time and there was plenty of sunlight. As far as the snow covering the solar panels, it would be far easier for me to just climb on the roof and scrape down the snow from the panels in the morning than sit around waiting for the power grid to get its shit together or driving down to the gas station to fill containers for the generator. Not to mention that there would be sufficient amount stored in the battery reserves to at least power some essentials for a little bit instead of it being completely dark and cold.
This is distributed solar, which is excellent and pretty much the only way to make it feasible in the forseeable future (competes with retail rates). Also... Solar panels on a home roof are an individual choice. The problem is not all renewables in all forms. The problem is forcing ineffective non-solutions on the masses for political reasons.
They pull this shit outta their asses. I live in the weakest area of the east Texas grid; and if anyone so much as lets a fart, the electricity goes out. But, I'm here to tell y'all that I've had absolutely no interruptions in the course of the storm.
I'm in East Texas too, and we've had power the whole time as well. Even though Texas has it's own power grid (ERCOT), it doesn't actually cover the whole state. The county I'm in is not on the ERCOT grid, is yours? I also figure this is why we haven't had the rolling blackouts like so many others in the state.
http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/landing_pages/89373/sized-county-map-6.27.19.jpg
Montgomery County, a bit north of Conroe (near Willis), and it is on the ERCOT, but Walker Co, just north of me, isn't. I also live out in the country, not in city-limits. Perhaps the blackouts only affect cities?
That's cool, I'm currently in Polk County, but I spend a lot of time in that area and even lived in Willis for a few years (2010-2013). I'll assume you're also familiar with SHECO then... their outage map shows all power is currently on, but at the beginning of all this, the rolling blackouts were only in counties on the ERCOT grid. As far as blackouts only affecting cities, my mom lives in Walker county, out in the sticks west of Huntsville, and the power at her place has been off and on every few hours the last few days, obviously part of the rolling blackouts. Thankfully, they appear to have ended, at least in her area, because she had power all day today. I just can't figure out the logic to any of this, none of it makes any sense.
Side note: I'm a building designer (basically a notch below architect). If you know where Sam's Liquor and Donuts is in Willis, the building going up behind them is one of our designs. It's not the prettiest thing, but the owners cheaped out on the nicer features we had planned.
Edit: Walker county IS on the ERCOT map.
If she's out on Hwy 30, going to Shiro and Roans Prairie, maybe she came under the authority of the Bryan-College Station generating plant? They appear to have new infrastructure out there.
She's a little south of 30, out in the woods between 1791 and 1374, so I guess SW of Huntsville would be more accurate. I know the plant you're talking about though (Tenaska Frontier, I think?). I pass it on my way to Bryan every once in a while, along with that stinky ass landfill.
Looking at the actual SHECO coverage map, she just might be getting power from that station, as her area is not covered by SHECO.
Yah, I know the road--turn left at Alpha Omega Academy and it goes down to Montgomery. My jeweler friend in Huntsville lives in Plantersville and drives that road every day. There's also a generating plant near Willis, out on Longstreet Road (where the Love's Truckstop is), and their infrastructure is new, too. That's the plant that I think services my area.
I didn't know about that plant, but that would make sense. It looks like temps will stay above freezing starting Saturday, so hopefully we can all get some relief and crews can get this shit fixed.
Her eyes are so dead.
Like a ginger shark.
i want to beat theever living shit out of these people
Original Link: https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1362116606776778755?s=20
There are a whole lot of us that want to do just that....beat the snot out of everyone of them.
Hold on a sec, here me out? I believe windmills are so SHITTY they provide only a decimal percentage (less than one percent) of total power? And that the power plants there just aren't winterized? Someone please SMACK ME DOWN if they belive this is wrong. I think its important to complain when you are factually correct
You are somewhat correct. Wind is not less than 1% in Texas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Texas
But problems with wind are only part of them problem. 33% of the power knocked offline is solar and wind:
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/17/texas-energy-wind-power-outage-natural-gas-renewable-green-new-deal/6780546002/
Unfortunately there are a lot of dumbed down lefty lemmings who will believe her.
Can we take a moment and circle back on what I say what in the FUCK she just said
Everyday is Opposite Day with Democrats
She get that bullshit from 'anonymous sources'?
She may be just mentally special.
Might have the equivalent thinking ability to a four year old.
.
There is also a video from the Obama Error, when she was the loudmouth then. She "explained" to all the "journalists" that Russia got all their energy because Western Europe gave it to them.
Eventually, she figured out she was backwards, and completely wrong.
They just spew complete bs now like the communist Chinese.
Shocking the commie whore lies to the press and they spread her lies.