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To: JD_UTDallas

Winds were on Thursday and Friday.

Not Saturday or today.


46 posted on 10/31/2021 2:23:51 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: WildHighlander57

On the far north side of the metroplex we had very strong winds till the middle of the night Friday and moderate winds Saturday morning. It turned to patio weather Saturday afternoon. It’s wide open up here we are closer to Oklahoma than South Dallas on the plains we regularly get high winds up here. My trees took a beating limbs down and leaves everywhere normally the leaves come down when red or brown this year half of them are down green. Wish I had bought that 5kw turbine from the rep when they came to put up the pipes for my solar panels they had the auger here to put in the concrete pole footings. 48+ hours of 20 mph plus wind would have been 225+ kWh of electricity from wind in those two days. Or 1/3 of the 650 kWh I use on avg in November. December is always under 500kWh unless I really crank up the heat pumps vs using the gas furnace. With cheap natural gas to be had I’d rather sell the electricity to ERCOT than use it in the heat pumps for heat. This year with gas doubling in cost I’ll have to run the numbers heat pumps vs gas on the cost per hour of use.


50 posted on 10/31/2021 4:06:44 PM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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