Posted on 02/16/2021 7:58:20 AM PST by Meatspace
Screw the WSJ. Denninger at Market Ticker has a really good break down of this event.
It’s a literal “sow the wind reap the whirlwind” situation
So You Want Green Energy Eh?
http://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?post=241603
I’m posting this on every thread on this subject.
Last night I watched the WFAA report on this rolling black out and power shortage in Texas. They laid the blame of utilities being to cheap to winterize their power generation facilities. Not one mention of wind mills / turbines and how they shut down in very cold weather, something I don’t really understand unless it is associated with ice on the blades.
Nonetheless Texas, in their isolated power grid, now rely on windmills for 23% of their electricity second only to natural gas. Some 23% of their power supply is just missing owing to the cold weather. That kind of gap can’t be made up.
Texas is getting what they wanted, what the customers were given the right to ask for when they have free choice about where they buy their power and by them making that feel good choice to be Free to Choose (the slogan for Texas’ power choice program) renewable power. We are seeing the outcome of a misinformed public making the choice to Go Green. The really sad part is everyone is being made to suffer because of the choice of some to feel good and Go Green instead of they alone being force to suffer the impact of their foolishness.
If your are freezing in Texas and your pipes burst blame some of your neighbors who made the choice for Wind Power(less).
Instead of sending all of us on the pathway of folly a region of the US should be designated or volunteered as the pilot project region for renewable power. Don’t allow any emergency bail-outs, isolate the region and make it exist on the poison the Greenies want to feed all the rest of us. See how it goes. Texas is not the right place because this cold is not normal. It is just giving us a taste of what would become an every day way of life living with renewable energy. The impact could be mitigated with enough money but I am sure the cost would be staggering to provide reliable Green energy.
This article appeared on Accuweather yesterday.
From this article:
this excerpt:
Around 9:30 a.m., local time, CenterPoint told customers that those in the dark “should be prepared to be without power for at least the rest of the day.” A large reason for the continued lack of power has been due to frozen wind turbines in West Texas, grid operators said.
Typically the state’s wind farms generate a combined 25,100 megawatts of energy, but those turbines were ground to a halt by the moist winter conditions. In 2020, wind power generated 23% of the all the energy in Texas and was the second-largest source after natural gas, according to Statesman.com.
Innocent and helpless people are are going to be made to suffer at the hands of these green fools. That is just one of the many things underlying my anger about this subject in addition to abject stupidity, ignorance of facts and science not caring about either, obscene cost and waste, the fraud, that new generations have a false sense of normal and the suffering that many will experience at the hands of these fools. I’m sorry people in Texas are freezing and doing without power and water. I have family there who are suffering for the folly of fools.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Yup. That's part of it. There can be many things that might kill overhead power lines. Trees overburdened by Snow/Ice. The lines themselves could have had weak points that caused them to break.
Unlike northern states that regularly see snow and ice that puts stresses on the lines, it doesn't happen nearly as often, if ever here. This can cause more failures in a situation like this, as marginal lines are stressed beyond their failure load. In places where these winter conditions are prevalent during much of the winter, those marginal lines would have probably failed piecemeal. Here, we're seeing all of the system abnormally stressed at once. In such a situation, you're going to see what are effectively multi years worth of accumulated potential failures happen all at once.
Add in solar/wind failures, difficulties in transporting fuel for conventional plants, and you're going to have pretty major issues. Rolling and hard blackouts should pretty much be expected.
At least we don't have annual rolling blackouts like they do in other parts of the country.
Welcome to the next step in your Californization, Texans!
23% of our power in Texas is from turbine and solar sources and they don’t work when frozen or covered in snow. This is the same power source the demoncrats want us on 100% instead of reliable coal and nucleur.
23% of our power in Texas is from turbine and solar sources and they don’t work when frozen or covered in snow. This is the same power source the demoncrats want us on 100% instead of reliable coal and nucleur.
Talked to a Electric Generating guy years back.
What is the best fuel/system to generating electricity?
First, hydro-electric > Niagra Falls
Second, Coal. You dump coal beside the generating plant. Need moar power, feed in more coal. Need less power, feed in less coal. Zero delivery issues in a cold snap.
Natural Gas, Oil both also good when you want to ramp up power. BUT, you need a pipeline of fixed diameter and storage is more expensive than coal.
Freezing rain takes out overhead power lines
scroll down to Saturday summary.
Explains what is happening and the science behind the weather
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Hello.
Not sure if they changed the page, but can you clarify where to look...I see nothing on the page about “Saturday” and no science of what is happening.
The fuel line needs to be warmed up. From experience. We used to put an incandescent light bulb under our cars and wrap a big tarp around the front all the way around the back wheels to create a pocket of warmer air, (a halogen will also work).
Where’s those Wichita Linemen when you need them?
My auntie from Nebraska told me years ago Many a winter they would have big storms and every spring car loads of people would get buried in the drifts (because they didn’t pay attention to the weather warnings). She said the saddest thing she ever heard about was a family who broke down during a big storm one night out on the highway. When they found them the parents had takenoff all of their clothes and coats and everything and climbed on top of the kids that were piled in the back seat and wrapped up. But all expired.
About the middle of the page.
Immediate below pictures of the three principals
Below Joe D’Aleo you see a square weather map.
Click on the play icon in the middle of the weather map
New window opens.
Bastardi put in 45 seconds of bumper music.
Some chit chat and weather starts at about 1:20
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