Erronius
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Kaines
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Fair point. I melt in the heat.
But then, we don't have rolling blackouts, so air conditioning works just fine.
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Malakriss
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Kaines
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So we will bro-five all the Californians laughing at Texans now come AugustFair point. I melt in the heat.
But then, we don't have rolling blackouts, so air conditioning works just fine.
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Malakriss
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Do I pray for more to shovel or frozen cement?
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So Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky aren’t part of the Eastern US grid.... retard.
Winter storm alerts, power outages cover the map as storms slam U.S. - UPI.com
Massive power outages and slippery travel were reported from the West to the East Coast as multiple storms unleashed snow and ice.www.upi.com
That division doesn't pay its bills. Hard times since the mine collapse. A lot of good men were lost, and it ain't right. I'm still prayin' on it.
Chukzombi
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depends on how much you are willing to salt and if you have to do a commute tomorrow. snow is better for a commute. ice is better if you be home. Friday will be the uncertain day. we get rain or a shit ton of ice depending on the temp. i think its going to be above freezing.
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Araxen
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Just think one day they'll get enough stupid people to secede from the US.
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Cybsled
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Borzak
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Still wondering about the co-op power in TX works. Two different people on two different co-ops had a total outage of 20 minutes total. I had co-op when I lived there. The good part about it was the office/yard for all the workers and repair stuff was 15 minutes away.
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When I did my SV80A training at Fairchild we got rain, snow, sub zero overnight, repeat for 3 days. We all broke our ass so many times trying to hike around the mountains in that shit. Plus sleeping in a tent in that weather is an extra kind of special.
We did build some giant raging fires though.
We did build some giant raging fires though.
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Kaines
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Cybsled
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The Government of Texas and the power management agencies are to blame for this, not other states
1) They deregulated and privatized their grid to avoid Federal "meddling". They're the only state in the US with its own independent grid.
2) They lost power generation capabilities from all sources. While the pepegas are like "DUR WIND POWER IS THE REASON", they literally confirmed over 2/3rds the lost power generation was from gas/coal/nuclear, with natural gas making up most of that non-renewable chunk.
3) Ercot admitted they already plan for loss of wind power during winter weather events (down to 7%). Because of failures of other platforms (ie, natural gas lines freezing up), they were unable to ramp up production to account for an unexpected spike
The problems are the direct result of poor planning and key segments of power infrastructure being inadequately prepared for cold weather events. Even once if gets warmer, it will take a lot of work to unfuck everything to get service back to people. But because everything is being politicized about this, they'll keep feeding the "Green energy is to blame!" to act as a rodeo clown to distract the public, while in the background they'll quietly fix the main issues that caused this (ie, the problems with the natural gas systems).
1) They deregulated and privatized their grid to avoid Federal "meddling". They're the only state in the US with its own independent grid.
2) They lost power generation capabilities from all sources. While the pepegas are like "DUR WIND POWER IS THE REASON", they literally confirmed over 2/3rds the lost power generation was from gas/coal/nuclear, with natural gas making up most of that non-renewable chunk.
3) Ercot admitted they already plan for loss of wind power during winter weather events (down to 7%). Because of failures of other platforms (ie, natural gas lines freezing up), they were unable to ramp up production to account for an unexpected spike
The problems are the direct result of poor planning and key segments of power infrastructure being inadequately prepared for cold weather events. Even once if gets warmer, it will take a lot of work to unfuck everything to get service back to people. But because everything is being politicized about this, they'll keep feeding the "Green energy is to blame!" to act as a rodeo clown to distract the public, while in the background they'll quietly fix the main issues that caused this (ie, the problems with the natural gas systems).
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TJT
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Yes clearly the correct answer is to simply cede it to Fed authority and purchase more green energy solutions.
Thank you for our morning NPR talking points. Much appreciated sir.
The simplest and most logical answer is simply that they did not spend money on hardening facilities to such extreme (for texas) temperatures.
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