Also, jury of your "peers"...
Think about the blackouts we will have when there is a spike like this in another winter and 40% of the power grid is on winter break.
Why does wind get the winter off and fossil fuels have to go to school year round?
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.
Yes but you could spin up turbines when you have unexpected demand. You can't spin up windmills.
Edit: I don't know what is so hard to understand. We have greatly reduced our variable capacity. So we have more windmills, we have reduced build out of conventional production. Conventional production goes offline in winter time as well for maintenance and they only run the most efficient facilities under low demand. You can turn some of that back on within a day if there is a demand spike. You cannot do that with windmils. The margin of error has been greatly reduced because you have an unreliable, uncontrollable source of energy.
Guys, you don't understand the power business. The wind farms are there for PEAK periods of demand which typically falls in the summer time. This is a time where it isn't expected for wind to produce much power but it is also a time where demand is typically much lower. We no longer have 20k of conventional production to bring online because it's all been invested in alternative capacity.
I agree with the sentiment but the math is WAY OFF.
Marginal brackets, so you are only paying 52% on income over 29,000
You have deductions so taxable income is probably under 29,000
Sharing something like this is just going to make a person look stupid.
One could be cost. See if you replace a bunch of peak demand with alternatives there is less of an appetite for fossil fuels, meaning less investment in infrastructure, bigger supply constraints during unplanned events. Natural gas plants maybe exposed to spot gas prices during this time. Check out this article: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2021/02/16/electricity-retailer-griddys-unusual-plea-to-texas-customers-leave-now-before-you-get-a-big-bill/ If you agree to supply electricity (annual contracts) to households at a fixed price and the cost to produce goes up 100x, are you going to crank the turbines to max? It is probably going to bankrupt some producers.
Winter power loads are typically far below summer, that is why they don't plan on using that capacity but if it was a conventional fossil fuel source, they could ramp the fucking thing up in a day. See the issue now?
We are funding Iran's Nuclear program while building fucking bird murdering wind mills and solar panels.
Caught the Today show saying this was caused by "Climate Change"
I swear, when we enter an Ice Age the media will explain how the extra greenhouse gasses melted the Polar Ice Caps and the cold migrated to the equator and people will gobble that shit down without a single question.
Well Texas has a population of ~29 million and Wind produces 17% of the electricity so divide by 3.141596288...and yes...I think it does on an average day. Take heavy load from a massive freeze across the whole state cranking energy demand up and a portion of other sources down (which would have plenty of extra capacity if not relying on that 17% from wind) and you get wind responsible for 2 million without power.
Yeah but those two types of potatoes mating is sinful and unnatural!
Right? Every regulation is just a competitive advantage for manufacturing in another country.
Minimum wage hike - ship jobs to China
Overregulate Industry - ship pollution to China
Raise taxes to the roof - ship profits to China
Now those regulations protect jobs and industries that don't exist.
"WHY DIDN'T TRUMP KNOW ABOUT A POST THAT HAD THREE UPDOOTS???"
You are absolutely right. A person with three and advanced age is just as likely to die from the common cold.
Im just talking about cause of death though. There are definitely more than 9,000 that have died to the coof but the vast majority died due to other issues and tested positive with coof.
Yeah, this is one of those "well you aren't wrong" headlines. It's just that people that die from Covid usually develop Pnemonia or some other health complication. Especially older people undergoing trauma may suffer a heart attack.
Is the 440,000 number right? No
But neither is the 9,000 number.
This is something im often repeating. Its not like you go into the swamp and can just hire a bunch of unicorns. Your selection of creatures is limited to those that survive in swamps. We are talking about hiring/firing hundreds to thousands of people. If all your advisors are swamp, you get more swamp. If they arent swamp, they face daily resistance and have no idea how to navigate the bureaucracy and everyone around them is swamp. You can fire everyone but that is now tens of thousands of people you have to replace that have no applicable experience.
Maybe assault rifles, there is no such thing as an "assault weapon" unless you mean any object from broken piece of glass to a nuclear warhead used for assaulting a target.
The challenge is the complete and utter control of information.
"Crazy racist man spouting white supremacist nonsense all over the internet was arrested today with a massive stockpile of illegal guns and ammunition."
How many people are donating to support this complete stranger that simply has a standard AR-15 and doesn't want a completely porous border?
Edit: And maybe we could see through it but how many "normies" would see through the propaganda?
Wow, set him up for a crime that's only a crime because they told him the guy was a felon in a private firearm sell which doesn't require you to do a background check anyways.
This is 4th quarter, that includes October and November up to the Election.
They are already forecasting a decline in the first quarter over last year's numbers.
The reality is that scaring someone in this manner is assault.
They won't even bother with the FISA's this time though. They have enough time to bury the extrajudicial activities in a mountain of paper or Sandy Berger it out the door.
They are going hard because they have 2 years minimum before Republicans could be in power again and we all know what kind of Kabuki theater those investigations turned into.
"I have written a very strongly worded letter letting you know this was very very double plus bad what you have done and I demand an apology and a few scapegoats that serve no jail time."
So when the grid is 40% wind, it will be the Natural Gas that is guilty for not making up the slack during a winter storm?