Posted on 02/17/2021 5:04:05 AM PST by Hojczyk
What did happen, though, is we have no power at our home. Haven’t had any since 6:00 a.m. Monday, and it now looks like we won’t have any again until Friday at the earliest. In case you hadn’t heard, the entire state of Texas looks an awful lot like Alaska right now.
Ok, well, West Texas looks more like South Dakota, but you get the picture. We’re covered up in snow and ice, the low temperature where I live near Fort Worth was -1 Fahrenheit this morning, we haven’t seen a temperature at my house above freezing since last Wednesday, and won’t see one until Friday. Again, that’s if we’re lucky.
Unfortunately, and with little public fanfare, the Republican-led Texas government has also allowed wind power to take a steadily-growing role in the state’s power generation mix over the past decade. Last year, in fact, wind surpassed coal in terms of the percentage of electricity provided to the ERCOT-managed grid, delivering 23% of the total mix, coming in second only to natural gas power plants.
That’s all great so long as you’re willing to pay the price, much of which becomes hidden from ratepayers by ERCOT and the state’s electricity providers, so everybody can pretend to be happy about “going green.” It’s also not so great when well over half the turbines in the state freeze up in near-zero temperatures and 3-12 inches of snowfall.
The state’s policymakers had better take advantage of this disastrous situation to act to really improve the resiliency of the state’s power grid, or there will be hell to pay in next year’s elections.
This situation is simply not acceptable, even if it only happens once a decade. Enough is enough.
I’ll post more when I can.
Isn’t the qusi-company\Government entity that manages the Power Grids a big Biden supporter?
Was Al Gore scheduled to speak in Texas?
New arrivals from California have shared some of their achievements with Texas.
People in the outlying areas of Big D be like pip...please sir can I have some more. Parts of Frisco , Plano and Allen never lost power one of my mates in Frisco is across from a hospital so that block was never going down. The Plano friend is down the st from a fire station there is a pattern.
White and Cold, the New Green.
He’s getting a massage in the Maldives...
Rugged individualism is not to be tolerated.
Understand citizen?
As the virus declines, the Powers Behind the News decided we needed a new crisis. It’s amazing how they plan to use this blackout to promote the elimination of “fossil fuels.” The blackout proves that sun/wind power is a failure, even in a normally warm state like Texas.
They will call for the promotion of sun/wind power and force us to stop using oil, gas and coal. That will make matters worse, but they will continue their insane crusade to rid the world of the buried energy from the Sun that fuels our industrial civilization.
A “Plan B” in this situation would not have gone far awry. Texas seems not to have had one.
CC
Bingo!
The state’s policymakers had better take advantage of this disastrous situation..
Herein lies the problem. The policymakers have already started the spin, "Don't believe your burst pipes
and frost bit fingers, we are on top of this." The frozen Texans will soon be
treated to the narrative that things would have been worse but for ERCOT's great work.
After all, this was Trump's fault..
I heard on Bannon’s war room yesterday that the debacle in Texas lays at the feet of Gov Rick Perry who pushed wind turbines 15 years ago. If true, then even a conservative politician can allow himself to be conned by the green energy cabal.
They better get a Plan B as this is going to be the norm with Global Cooling.
Here in Texas it looks like we haven’t burned enough fossil fuel.
Countries like Canada, Norway, and Sweden generate a larger percentage of their electricity from solar and wind and they don't seem to have any problems with the weather. If Texas decided to invest such a large percentage of their electricity supply in wind then shouldn't they have also planned for a worst case scenario and invested in generators that work in cold and icy weather?
And Blackmon ignores the fact that an even larger percentage of electricity was lost when coal and gas plants were forces to shut down.
I have a cousin and aunt in Houston. Time to check on them.
Donald Trump for Governor
People are going to be die from exposure, homes and apartment buildings will have water pipes bursting or no access to water because it cannot be pumped, this is only the beginning of many troubles for those caught off guard and unprepared. Heck you won’t even be able to get gasoline in some areas due to the pumps not working.
Gas pumps also went dry and still are due to people fueling generators. Texand went full California and brought out or bought every generator they had. Most if not all run on petrol unless converted to propane or nat gas.
We tried, nat gas went above $100 MMbtu and power hit the cap rate of $9000 mwh everyone everywhere tried to burn something to make power at those prices it wasn’t enough and the gas supply collapsed due to the cold.freezing production Texas lacks.large gas storage in salt.domes or saline aquifers because normally gas can be tapped on demand from well heads.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/
While methane doesn’t freeze until minus 273 degrees the water that is produced with it at the well head does and the gathering lines are plastic on the surface which during normal Texas winter’s rarely freezes due to the high salt.content and 100_130f temps out the earth but in single.digits over days time the ground cold sinks and the lines freeze.
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