Posted on 02/16/2021 8:06:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
You have a ton of hydro too.
BTTT!!!
More Quebec than Ontario. Lots of little hydro power plants but the only real big one is at Niagara Falls and there are similar ones on the NY / US side.
>>What I hope for more is that they have had to go through the power outage like the commoners are dealing with.<<
Not likely. Even if they didn’t get preferential treatment from the power company, they’d have expensive top of the line generators.
Texas is simply not equipped to deal with temperatures this cold. Freezing rain, snow, and single digit temperatures shut down the state. There are no road snow plows, deicing equipment, snow shovels, and even clothing for really cold weather. People can't drive to work, work outside, or even get out of their garages. They've never had to do it before. Grocery stores are not restocked because trucks cant drive on the roads, stop lights are unlit, creating massive traffic jams for the people that get out, gas stations run out of fuel, etc. If you can't get people to run the generators, they stop.
“Greg Abott said yesterday said that Texas’ natural gas and coal generators also froze along with the pipelines.
Can someone educate me how generators freeze at 0F?”
Most coal plants and quite a few large natural gas plants are built directly next to their cooling lakes. The intakes of which at 0F are now frozen solid since the steel suction pipes are above ground and uninsulated. These plants have not be winterized is the industry technical term why because most of Texas never gets cold enough for long enough to justify the millions for each plants cost. One of my.favorite places to fish as a kid was at the outlet of the coal plants warm water in the winter time. Largemouth bass would hang out in the warm waters and snap at any scrap of food presented grandpa and I would limit out in a hour it was his secret honey hole.
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