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Texas snowstorms you say?
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Lokmar
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Dumb bitch!!! :ROFL3:
California is STILL experiencing blackouts because they wont let the power companies clear cut the power lines as needed!
SELF PWN3D!
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"The grid began preparing for the storm a week ahead of time, but it reached a breaking point early Monday as conditions worsened and knocked power plants offline, ERCOT president Bill Magness said. Some wind turbine generators were iced, but nearly twice as much power was wiped out at natural gas and coal plants.
Forcing controlled outages was the only way to avert an even more dire blackout in Texas, Magness said.
“What we’re protecting against is worse,” he said.
Still, Magness said ERCOT could not offer a firm timetable for when power might be fully restored. The outages are the widest Texas’ grid has suffered but hardly a first in winter. A decade ago, another deep February freeze created power shortages in Texas the same week the Super Bowl was played in Arlington. A federal report later flagged failures in the system, including power plants that are unable to stand up to extreme cold."
PS: Why didn't the Republican governor prepare for this?
"The grid began preparing for the storm a week ahead of time, but it reached a breaking point early Monday as conditions worsened and knocked power plants offline, ERCOT president Bill Magness said. Some wind turbine generators were iced, but nearly twice as much power was wiped out at natural gas and coal plants.
Forcing controlled outages was the only way to avert an even more dire blackout in Texas, Magness said.
“What we’re protecting against is worse,” he said.
Still, Magness said ERCOT could not offer a firm timetable for when power might be fully restored. The outages are the widest Texas’ grid has suffered but hardly a first in winter. A decade ago, another deep February freeze created power shortages in Texas the same week the Super Bowl was played in Arlington. A federal report later flagged failures in the system, including power plants that are unable to stand up to extreme cold."
PS: Why didn't the Republican governor prepare for this?
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Biden's fault!
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“There have been some inaccurate accusations out there — I’m not sure if former Energy Secretary Perry made these — that renewables caused failures in Texas’s power grid,” Psaki told reporters. “Actually, numerous reports have actually shown the contrary — that it was failures in coal and natural gas that contributed to the state’s power shortages. And officials at Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s power grid, have gone so far as to say that wind and solar were the least significant factors in the blackouts.”
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Every damn day I have to expose the bullshit and lies told by conservatives.
Anyone else tired of the lies and bullshit told by conservatives?
Why DO conservative bullshit and lie so much?
Why is the truth so offensive to them?
Dan Woodfin, a senior ERCOT director, said on Tuesday according to Bloomberg: "We've had some issues with pretty much every kind of generating capacity in the course of this multi-day event."
In a press call on Tuesday, Woodfin said that of the 45,000 megawatts of power that were offline across Texas, thermal sources, which include gas, coal and nuclear plants, accounted for around 30,000 megawatts.
Renewable sources, meanwhile, accounted for around 16,000 megawatts of the power that was offline. Wind energy in particular was responsible for less than 13 percent—between 3,600 to 4,500 megawatts—of the total outages, Woodfin said, according to Bloomberg.
"The performance of wind and solar is way down the list among the smaller factors in the disaster that we're facing," Daniel Cohan, associate professor of environmental engineering at Rice University, told Bloomberg. Blaming renewables for the blackouts "is really a red herring," he said.
Wind energy provides only about 25 percent of Texas' total power throughout the year, according to ERCOT data—natural gas sources account for 35 percent—although the turbines tend to generate less power in the winter.
The Texas Tribune reported that only 7 percent of ERCOT's forecasted winter capacity was expected to come from wind power sources in the state. Meanwhile, around 80 percent of ERCOT's total winter capacity is generated by natural gas, coal and nuclear power.
Anyone else tired of the lies and bullshit told by conservatives?
Why DO conservative bullshit and lie so much?
Why is the truth so offensive to them?
Dan Woodfin, a senior ERCOT director, said on Tuesday according to Bloomberg: "We've had some issues with pretty much every kind of generating capacity in the course of this multi-day event."
In a press call on Tuesday, Woodfin said that of the 45,000 megawatts of power that were offline across Texas, thermal sources, which include gas, coal and nuclear plants, accounted for around 30,000 megawatts.
Renewable sources, meanwhile, accounted for around 16,000 megawatts of the power that was offline. Wind energy in particular was responsible for less than 13 percent—between 3,600 to 4,500 megawatts—of the total outages, Woodfin said, according to Bloomberg.
"The performance of wind and solar is way down the list among the smaller factors in the disaster that we're facing," Daniel Cohan, associate professor of environmental engineering at Rice University, told Bloomberg. Blaming renewables for the blackouts "is really a red herring," he said.
Wind energy provides only about 25 percent of Texas' total power throughout the year, according to ERCOT data—natural gas sources account for 35 percent—although the turbines tend to generate less power in the winter.
The Texas Tribune reported that only 7 percent of ERCOT's forecasted winter capacity was expected to come from wind power sources in the state. Meanwhile, around 80 percent of ERCOT's total winter capacity is generated by natural gas, coal and nuclear power.
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Biden is falling down on the job already.
First the COVID clusterfuck and now this
First the COVID clusterfuck and now this
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Ouch, this did not age well.
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Whoa WTF is the Gimp babbling about now?
Whoa WTF is the Gimp babbling about now?
It's mind boggling the bullshit these people come up with to distract their base from the reality.
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Well bigly, according to Beto O'rourke, the power failures are the result of a failed state run by the Republicnan party and its governor, Greg Abbott.
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Lokmar
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feel free to help josephine explain why the power grid in liberal utopia 90210 goes down more than a $5 hooker on Saturday night, ass clown.
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If the power grid isn't shaped like a big black cock Admin isn't going to know much about it
just saying
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You kin git a hooker for $5 a night these day, Lokmeer!?!
...Maybe in the 3rd world!
Might not be the most healthy product on the market, Bud.
Butcha kin try! :LOL1:
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Well josephine, maybe you and baby poop beto can explain why cali has continuing power failures all year long, year after year in spite of its 100% democRAT run gubmints AND they arent having freak ice storms which knock down powerlines anywhere. Get to it, bitch!
Any event, make sure yer state is hooked inta Canadian dam power, Lokmeer!
Don' be like Texas, Bud! Make sure yer covered! It could well save yer bacon!
Gotta have a constant source of energy/power ta keep that comin fleet of electric cars powered up, eh?
Only Canada kin provide that fer to ya folks 24/7 down South....Lokmeer!
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Well josephine, maybe you and baby poop beto can explain why cali has continuing power failures all year long, year after year in spite of its 100% democRAT run gubmints AND they arent having freak ice storms which knock down powerlines anywhere. Get to it, bitch!
Any event, make sure yer state is hooked inta Canadian dam power, Lokmeer!
Don' be like Texas, Bud! Make sure yer covered! It could well save yer bacon!
Gotta have a constant source of energy/power ta keep that comin fleet of electric cars powered up, eh?
Only Canada kin provide that fer ya 24/7....Lokmeer!
Hey idiot, all the interconnectivity on the planet dont do jack shit for downed lines and blown up substations! Try again, dummy.
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Actually Lokmeer, the Texas debacle does raise the question about the viability of Electric cars.
Cuz I wonder right now, are they having difficulty keeping EV's on the road in Texas these days?
Are they having difficulty powering up their electric only vehicles and Teslas?
Perhaps Elon Musks's move ta Texas wasn't as great a publicity stunt as he thought.
Teslas smack in the middle of a state with a shortage of electrical energy?
Hmmm, doesn't seem that farseighted, eh?
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FYI for all you arm chair electrical engineers, we've had several storms in Central Illinois this winter that have knocked out power for a week+ at a time.
Fukin morons.
Fukin morons.
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Well josephine, maybe you and baby poop beto can explain why cali has continuing power failures all year long, year after year in spite of its 100% democRAT run gubmints AND they arent having freak ice storms which knock down powerlines anywhere. Get to it, bitch!
Any event, make sure yer state is hooked inta Canadian dam power, Lokmeer!
Don' be like Texas, Bud! Make sure yer covered! It could well save yer bacon!
Gotta have a constant source of energy/power ta keep that comin fleet of electric cars powered up, eh?
Only Canada kin provide that fer ya 24/7....Lokmeer!
Hey idiot, all the interconnectivity on the planet dont do jack shit for downed lines and blown up substations! Try again, dummy.
Texas planners appear to have made a big mistake in the design of their power grid, Lokmeer.
They're isolated from the major ones, so it made them extremely vulnerable to catastrophic events like this.
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Joe
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But not as bad as Texas I bet.
Joe
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But Texas residents must have a problem power up those Electric cars these days, eh?
Cuz if there's not power to heat homes or power home appliances, where can it come from to power up a car?
Anyways, reason I said a month ago in this forum why I'd never buy an electric car.
Yer too damn vulneerable to shit like Texas is experiencing.
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Well josephine, maybe you and baby poop beto can explain why cali has continuing power failures all year long, year after year in spite of its 100% democRAT run gubmints AND they arent having freak ice storms which knock down powerlines anywhere. Get to it, bitch!
Any event, make sure yer state is hooked inta Canadian dam power, Lokmeer!
Don' be like Texas, Bud! Make sure yer covered! It could well save yer bacon!
Gotta have a constant source of energy/power ta keep that comin fleet of electric cars powered up, eh?
Only Canada kin provide that fer ya 24/7....Lokmeer!
Hey idiot, all the interconnectivity on the planet dont do jack shit for downed lines and blown up substations! Try again, dummy.
Texas planners appear to have made a big mistake in the design of their power grid, Lokmeer.
They're isolated from the major ones, so it made them extremely vulnerable to catastrophic events like this.
josephine, do you even understand what an ice storm does to an electrical grid? Do you think interconnections are like fukin wifi? Huh, dumbass?
