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Rolling blackouts in the Midwest
https://fox4kc.com/news/thousands-caught-off-guard-by-rolling-blackouts-in-kansas-city-monday-afternoon/ ^

Posted on 02/15/2021 7:42:03 PM PST by Slingwing

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To: katykelly
Isn't this under the domain of the Texas Railroad Commissioner?
41 posted on 02/15/2021 8:49:28 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: JonPreston

Double masking helps with gas.

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LOL.........


42 posted on 02/15/2021 8:50:55 PM PST by deport ( )
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

The plan is to kill off billions of people. Gates and others are quite clear that the world is over populated and they have been persuading the West to stop having babies for decades now.


43 posted on 02/15/2021 8:51:58 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“XingXao Biden is reversing all of that.”

All in three short weeks. How is that for performance?

Gonna be a long four years and I doubt very much if the lid can be kept on it.


44 posted on 02/15/2021 8:53:55 PM PST by crz
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To: FlyingEagle

Flyover country has to freeze BECAUSE the voters supported Trump.

Recall the pettiness when Obama shut down the NASA space shuttle program and New York got one and Texas got a training model.

Schumer crowed that elections have consequences.

This is by design.


45 posted on 02/15/2021 8:55:50 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: semimojo
I don't know either. :) But I do believe liquid petroleum product is being shipped to the US via rail? Probably to refineries along the Gulf coast.

I've been reading about some outrageous prices for NG, and electricity. I saw one report of $4 per KWH! That's unbelievable. It would pay someone to generate their own power using a diesel generator. It could be generated MUCH cheaper than that.

46 posted on 02/15/2021 9:01:25 PM PST by amorphous
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
You forgot "ban coal". These Luddites don't realize that coal fired power plants using the latest technology are clean, smoke free, and soot free. You can stand right next to one and not even see or smell smoke.

Supposedly they also trap almost all carbon emissions too, but I'm unsure of the exact figure.

47 posted on 02/15/2021 9:14:40 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O my great Redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: Slingwing

Either Kalifornia is still leeching off the rest of the country, or, like Texas, the utilities switched to solar/wind power to appease the Left and it is insufficient.


48 posted on 02/15/2021 9:22:52 PM PST by Ingtar
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To: Slingwing

Here’s a good map of power outages across the US. I don’t know if they include rolling blackouts, but their information is updated often. Texas has nearly 4.3 million without power now.

https://poweroutage.us/


49 posted on 02/15/2021 9:27:58 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: a fool in paradise
I put it about this time last year, beginning with the first COVID deaths; or around the time of NY's Jubilee(50th) Anniversary of its legalization of abortion.

America's 50th, Jubilee Anniversary, of the practice, no doubt planned to be celebrated by the current Administration, will be in 2023.

And, as an aside, 2028 will mark two thousand years since the Crucifixion of Christ.

That's about seven years difference...if you get my drift.

50 posted on 02/15/2021 9:34:53 PM PST by amorphous
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Is Texas still selling, and delivering, power to California?


51 posted on 02/15/2021 9:45:02 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Dewey eyed Joe lost )
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Don’t know. Wouldn’t be surprised.


52 posted on 02/15/2021 9:51:45 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Unity? Of course! I pledge to respect your President as much as you respected mine the past 4 years.)
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To: Slingwing

No heat, no lights, no phones and our electric cars....(/sarc).


53 posted on 02/15/2021 10:23:43 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Slingwing
30% of the state is down.


54 posted on 02/16/2021 12:34:08 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: AZJeep

States need to ignore Washington and make their own consortium and energy policies


55 posted on 02/16/2021 12:43:57 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The problem is, these latest tech coal plants are more expensive to run than natural gas powered plants. So, many coal plants are being shut down because either they have to pay big $$ to install the tech, or, if built with it, they can’t compete.

The sad truth is, even plants with the previous generation tech are quite clean. There’s one with a big cooling lake about 2-1/2 hours north of me, and that lake has some of the lowest contaminate-levels fish in it in the Midwest. Granted, the plant is usually downwind from the lake, but, it is not always downwind from the lake.


56 posted on 02/16/2021 1:06:36 AM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Slingwing; 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...
I'm Joseph Stealin, and I approve this message.

In Maryland, my power has been consistent. Of course, utilities could be like, "Hogan's a nevertrumper, so sheeeeeeeeeee, we'll keep Maryland's lights on!"

PING!

57 posted on 02/16/2021 1:11:49 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
People with electric Heat Pumps (commonly used in moderate climates) have been using huge amounts of power because when it's too cold, the heat exchanger fails to do anything, and that causes the emergency resistance-heating coils to kick in. They are huge coils that glow red as they burn thru megawatts of power.

And it can be easy for the Emergency Heat to fail under certain circumstances. When Mom was alive, she had COPD, so I was using these heavy-duty furnace filters to make sure she got clean air. The filters created a strain on the system which caused the switch for the Emergency Heat to fail permanently. The repair cost over 900 bucks. If I remember correctly, the entire coil had to be replaced.

Natural gas is relatively clean, compared to coal and wood, with no need for Emergency Heat, as far as I know. I suppose the environ-MENTAL-ists would be fine with us going back to coal and wood like the days of old, then?

58 posted on 02/16/2021 1:16:36 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: peggybac

That is a good point. Even if temperatures rose to Jurassic Park levels, humans would do fine, and likely prosper better than today. Potentially some populations (like me) would have to move, but over a 100 year or more period this is less a challenge than sometimes made out to be.

If we let nature take it’s course, a strong period of glaciation is due. That would reduce the human population by at least 75%, IMO.


59 posted on 02/16/2021 1:16:40 AM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: rktman

How do your Constitutional amendments get ratified? If it’s through referendum, your state has been Californicated.


60 posted on 02/16/2021 1:17:36 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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