Posted on 02/25/2021 7:06:45 AM PST by SJackson
And I'll add that nobody who is freezing in the dark waiting for power to come back gives a second thought to what their Senator is doing at that moment.
I think new york is solving their infrastructure problems with covid. Currently vacant and soon to be vacated buildings don’t use much power from the grid..
Occasionally we lose power here on LI. More than a day if it’s a hurricane. But usually No power outages. And I have a generator ready to go.
For over 60 years, the New York City mindset has been, everything and everybody that is NOT NYC, is squat. That has flowed over to the TV, and the newspaper.
That, and chasing away residents for decades - they’ll have no power demand whatsoever.
Just remember NYC after Hurricane Sandy; they didn’t mind asking for help.
Yes, that we're not Lone Star enough! *middle finger*
“Texas thought it could go it alone,”.....
We can go it alone and don’t need no stinkin yankee telling us what we can and can’t do. Double middle finger.
The Texas electric grid failed because George W. Bush’s “deregulation” scheme placed customers who think that virtue signaling is morally superior to preserving human life in charge of the service reliability of customers who’s top priority is service reliability.
Customers who want federally-subsidized unreliable service should be forced off the grid.
Hay Shithead. Your tax base has left for Texas. Texas gets the last laugh.
I’m not sure that the Texas Grid would have survived the
situation without major outages if it had been connected to
other grids. With the freezing, lines down, substations off
line, plants shut in, etc. etc.there still would have been
major problems. JMO
To a degree it was like a major hurricane and its destruction
along the Gulf Coast and inland where it comes ashore. No
power for days until the system can be rebuilt, etc.
Never even thought about my Senator. Why would I?
Having him load water?? Just a photo op....crap that Obama pulled.
If we’re really heading into a sunspot minimum as some theorize, Texas is going to have to spend the money to make all their grid systems robust down to perhaps -10F.
The technology is available and proven, just needs to be funded.
Alternative systems like Big Wind and Big Solar also need robust amounts of backup from the good old stuff, which is expensive.
Yep any system is dependent upon its fuel source. As you say
wind/solar aren’t in the generation dependable category.
Shut up Schmuck!! Stay in your own back yard and the crap hole it is.......POS!!!
Texas can go it alone. Secede, already!
No thanks to Biden and the EPA. Our mistake was having out of state ERCOT officials kissing up to the libs. Someone also needs to look into why the Chinese own so many West Texas wind turbines.
After the first 2-3 days, our local power company wised up and ignored ERCOT. They had enough power to send help down south.
If only this was broadcast on the news channels. No democrat would ever be elected.
No, I’m not overlooking the outages caused by non-wind sources. However, the information is in.
Wind power plummeted while natural gas power surged. Texas can’t afford to be the biggest U.S. relier on the most unreliable energy source anywhere. The only reason why responsible Texans are forced to rely on wind is that the “deregulation” structure forced on us by Governor George W. Bush forces us into this position.
It need to be scrapped. Customers should not be able to use public infrastructure to make their neighbors dependent on unreliable power sources.
I believe you can have “green” power and unreliability.
Or you can have “green” power with robust backups from carbon and have a lot more cost. Because maintaining power plants at a state of readiness to go online with hours notice isn’t cheap.
Or you can have cheap, reliable carbon power.
It’s a choice ratepayers and taxpayers should get to make themselves.
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