Texas, 'He Is Lying. People Are Dying'

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#151
Wafflestomper said:
Okay, but that's not the same thing as "renewable don't work in extreme weather." That's "we're not going to prepare them for extreme weather." Big difference.
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The wind turbines that they have in Texas are not the same ones they use in extreme cold weather. Why is that so hard to understand?
 
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Sandman 423 said:
The wind turbines that they have in Texas are not the same ones they use in extreme cold weather. Why is that so hard to understand?
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Ugh. My point is that what Crenshaw said about renewables isn't true. Wind turbines can work in extreme weather if you design them to. They didn't, and Texas has their own grid, so here we are with both sides politically posturing over whose fault this is.
 
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Wafflestomper said:
Okay, but that's not the same thing as "renewable don't work in extreme weather." That's "we're not going to prepare them for extreme weather." Big difference.
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I found the reply from Crenshaw. He brought up wind but didn’t blame it. He just stated what allocated was counted on wasn’t there and in a shortage that’s not good. He also pointed to the lack of wind storage being unreliable, again due to our building methods.

With electricity blackouts across Texas, many are wondering: what happened? How does the energy capital of the United States run out of power?

Here’s what happened.

#1 - Frozen Wind Turbines:

West Texas, where most of the wind energy is focused, had wind turbines that had to be de-iced. The little energy that power regulators planned on wind to supply was now gone.

To make matters worse, existing storage of wind energy in batteries was also gone, because batteries were losing 60% of their energy in the cold.

This is what happens when you force the grid to rely in part on wind as a power source. When weather conditions get bad as they did this week, intermittent renewable energy like wind isn’t there when you need it.

#2 - Even Nuclear Got Cold: We only have 4 nuclear units in Texas, two near Houston and two near Dallas. At the plant near Houston, one of the two reactors at the plant turned off – due to a precaution because a safety sensor froze.

Even though the system was stable, the reactor shut off because the sensor couldn’t relay that the system was stable. This is just one of the many mechanisms that makes nuclear energy so safe, even though it interfered with our ability to get backup power.

#3 - Low Supply of Natural Gas:

ERCOT planned on 67GW from natural gas/coal, but could only get 43GW of it online. We didn’t run out of natural gas, but we ran out of the ability to get natural gas. Pipelines in Texas don’t use cold insulation – so things were freezing.

We had every natural gas plant—that wasn’t already down for maintenance—online generating power. Gov. Abbott made the right call in diverting all natural gas to home heating fuel and then electricity for homes. Gas and coal brought a stable supply of energy, but still not enough.

Bottom line: Thank God for baseload energy made up of fossil fuels.

Had our grid been more reliant on the wind turbines that froze, the outages would have been much worse.

This raises serious concerns about the reliability of renewable-reliant power grids during extreme weather.

It also raises serious concerns about the push to decommission baseload power sources like natural gas, which are more reliable than wind and are critical right now to keeping the lights on in Texas.

All of this calls into question our ability in Texas to prepare for extreme weather events and plan power accordingly, so we’re not relying on frozen wind turbines to heat our homes during a blizzard.

I’ll be joining my Texas colleagues in getting to the bottom of what happened so it never happens again.

In the meantime, please stay warm, stay safe, and stay strong.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Some of you left wingers would lose your f###ing sh!t in the summer if you found out most of Europe doesn't have A/C. I can see it now "WHY DID YOU ALL NOT PREPARE FOR THESE POSSIBLE HEAT WAVE!"!"!"!"!

Wait..a lot of the north doesn't have A/C either. Oh man..people better start getting those systems in just in case the ozone layer fails!


Flash flood warning at my house. Sh!t..Going to go buy a boat and/or a hovercraft in case Atlanta floods!
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This is pretty much the same for homes in SE Asia. I have visited Thailand several times in the past 17 years and lots of people in rural areas don’t have AC units. The homes that do don’t even bother turning them on during the daytime because it is pointless. One small wall unit will not cool a house when it is 100 degrees outside with 95% humidity. They provide a little comfort at night and that is about it. Central air only exists in large department stores.
 
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evillawyer said:
Liberal twitter for the win. Cruz is heading home.
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If it is Cruz, is his family coming back with him Evil Tyler? Say maybe ... did he fly down on a preplanned trip and spent the day and now is modifying his planes because of “liberal Twitter” not because he has decided to do it already. If this is really Cruz...
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Wafflestomper said:
Ugh. My point is that what Crenshaw said about renewables isn't true. Wind turbines can work in extreme weather if you design them to. They didn't, and Texas has their own grid, so here we are with both sides politically posturing over whose fault this is.
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I wonder how long the ones designed for extreme cold would last in the Texas heat
 
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DancingOutlaw said:
Wow that is going to make the millions of corpses pretty rank.
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Yep. You sure would think it’s this mass casualty storm. I’m sure Beto is going to be getting his mind right and taking the right photos for the Gram and boning up on his Rosetta Stone Spanish disc 2.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
If it is Cruz, is his family coming back with him Evil Tyler? Say maybe ... did he fly down on a preplanned trip and spent the day and now is modifying his planes because of “liberal Twitter” not because he has decided to do it already. If this is really Cruz...
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I still don't understand why anyone cares where Ted Cruz is. WTF is he going to do to help the situation?
 
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hog88 said:
I still don't understand why anyone cares where Ted Cruz is. WTF is he going to do to help the situation?
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Nothing. But if he does say take a preplanned trip with the family you have a bunch of internet Karen’s screeching. Already seeing it on my FB feed from my lefty friends. They aren’t interested in hearing “so?” from the rest of us 😂
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Nothing. But if he does say take a preplanned trip with the family you have a bunch of internet Karen’s screeching. Already seeing it on my FB feed from my lefty friends. They aren’t interested in hearing “so?” from the rest of us 😂
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Vizzini says what about pelosi's ice cream, but then shrugs shoulders over Cruz?

NorthDallas40 said:
I figured it was just the usual partisan screeching but yeah holy hell thats $13 a pint ice cream! 😳 we will splurge for B&J but no way for something that ridiculous. Not too shocked on the Viking fridge it’s par for the course in a house that level. But yeah FFS put some damn local main stream brand in there and pay attention to the message you drunk old hag.
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NorthDallas40 said:
I found the reply from Crenshaw. He brought up wind but didn’t blame it. He just stated what allocated was counted on wasn’t there and in a shortage that’s not good. He also pointed to the lack of wind storage being unreliable, again due to our building methods.

With electricity blackouts across Texas, many are wondering: what happened? How does the energy capital of the United States run out of power?

Here’s what happened.

#1 - Frozen Wind Turbines:

West Texas, where most of the wind energy is focused, had wind turbines that had to be de-iced. The little energy that power regulators planned on wind to supply was now gone.

To make matters worse, existing storage of wind energy in batteries was also gone, because batteries were losing 60% of their energy in the cold.

This is what happens when you force the grid to rely in part on wind as a power source. When weather conditions get bad as they did this week, intermittent renewable energy like wind isn’t there when you need it.

#2 - Even Nuclear Got Cold: We only have 4 nuclear units in Texas, two near Houston and two near Dallas. At the plant near Houston, one of the two reactors at the plant turned off – due to a precaution because a safety sensor froze.

Even though the system was stable, the reactor shut off because the sensor couldn’t relay that the system was stable. This is just one of the many mechanisms that makes nuclear energy so safe, even though it interfered with our ability to get backup power.

#3 - Low Supply of Natural Gas:

ERCOT planned on 67GW from natural gas/coal, but could only get 43GW of it online. We didn’t run out of natural gas, but we ran out of the ability to get natural gas. Pipelines in Texas don’t use cold insulation – so things were freezing.

We had every natural gas plant—that wasn’t already down for maintenance—online generating power. Gov. Abbott made the right call in diverting all natural gas to home heating fuel and then electricity for homes. Gas and coal brought a stable supply of energy, but still not enough.

Bottom line: Thank God for baseload energy made up of fossil fuels.

Had our grid been more reliant on the wind turbines that froze, the outages would have been much worse.

This raises serious concerns about the reliability of renewable-reliant power grids during extreme weather.

It also raises serious concerns about the push to decommission baseload power sources like natural gas, which are more reliable than wind and are critical right now to keeping the lights on in Texas.

All of this calls into question our ability in Texas to prepare for extreme weather events and plan power accordingly, so we’re not relying on frozen wind turbines to heat our homes during a blizzard.

I’ll be joining my Texas colleagues in getting to the bottom of what happened so it never happens again.

In the meantime, please stay warm, stay safe, and stay strong.
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Wafflestomper said:
Ugh. My point is that what Crenshaw said about renewables isn't true. Wind turbines can work in extreme weather if you design them to. They didn't, and Texas has their own grid, so here we are with both sides politically posturing over whose fault this is.
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You got a mouse in your pocket?
 
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evillawyer said:
Vizzini says what about pelosi's ice cream, but then shrugs shoulders over Cruz?
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A preplanned trip with his family that he MIGHT have altered after getting them there to come back early as compared to an idiot legislator eating $13 a pint ice cream while her constituents have lost their income is equivalent?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡
 
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