Posted on 06/16/2021 10:57:15 AM PDT by george76
Nothing about “don’t charge your car for a few days”?
Mark Davis has been going off on them for 2 days now. 660AM the answer.
But then Texas is RED. Tell me what’s wrong.
All those windmills not doing the job Texas?
Elon Musk said that electricity consumption will double if car fleets are electrified.
Truly sad for a state capable of being independent from much of the country.
People are working day and night to hobble it. The US in microcosm.
Yeah- What percentage of Texans have electric cars right now?
From What I understand the heatwave in Texas as far from being the worst.
I got 2 emails about this. One was from the REA supplier at our farm house & shops and the other was from TXU our supplier at my house in town.
I’m sure that ERCOT told them to send the emails.
Warren Buffett :: wind & solar energy is a bad investment.. They do not make sense without tax credits, subsidies ..
Has this happened in past summer seasons?
This will mean outages within the week.
The Feb Freeze was just a slight preview to watch T-boon, perry, and abbott have designed.
ERCOT was under control of Greenies. The head people were fired. But evidently some idiots still remain. But it takes a long time to build power plants and the capital cost of that is HUGE.
The Greenies have tried to “end dependence” on non-renewable fuel?
Will Never Work. Period. But the idiot Greenies and their leftist POLs cannot be convinced it is impossible.
Texas has the natural resources, we produce enough fossil fuels (NG), USE IT. It works!
It isn't. It's just that it has reached high temperatures earlier than it usually does. We have had record highs over the past few days. Record for those days of the month. But if they can't handle July temps in June, how are they hoping to handle them in July?
There have been times, but they keep building subsidized Wind Power Plants. The “Regulators” have dictated that.
Still More #ComDem_Insanity!
I hate to admit it, but Warren Buffett is absolutely Right. (but he is a Leftie supporter)
They’re’s no plants anymore! They have 30 years now to expand Comanche Peak. Everything else is shut down.
A few years ago you used to get some early warnings to use less electricity and get a payback. Now it’s pretty much forget it. Lots of people will have to move into energy zones kinda like the Feb Freeze. And Cruz, if not only, might have fleed first like last time.
If they ever get to where they fully charge an electric car in a few minutes, each charging station will literally need an electrical grid substation right next to it.
A gallon of gas contains about 124 MJ (megajoules) of thermal energy; if you're pumping gas at the rate of one gallon every ten seconds (6 gal/minute) into your tank at the gas pump, equivalent mechanical energy of a bit more than 3 million watts is flowing through that fill pipe into your gas tank. That's about 4000 hp. This assuming your engine has thermal efficiency of 25%, which is actually a bit low for modern automotive gas engines.
If six cars are "filling" at once from an electric recharging station, that's almost 20 MW, which is roughly the amount of power you figure on for a town of roughly 2000 homes.
The actual amount of heat energy that flows through the fill pipe is that multiplied by four.
My point is that a gasoline pump and fill nozzle is an extremely rapid way of moving and metering energy.
Texas is independent of the rest of the country, but we were not independent of the Federal Regulators.
Texas has their own power grid, it could decouple from the rest of the nation if it wanted to.
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