Posted on 05/14/2022 10:37:39 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Yep. We saw one of the biggest farms in that area.
We drive through a quite large wind farm in central Indiana headed north on i-65 to get to Chicago every few months. That one pales by comparison to all the stuff we saw in Texas.
Side note: I’ve heard that with every revolution of the blades of a single windmill enough power is generated to power an average home for one day. I don’t “know” if that is true, though.
These were all natural gas turbines that tripped out. Maintenance season should be over by May but the industry has been dragging their feet. Prices yesterday shot up to $4 per kilowatt hour on the ERCOT market I dumped 120 kWh from my panels and battery banks in the grid to help out made $480 bucks in just over two hours. Maxed out my 300 amp grid tie and also the 200 amp guest house in the back. I’ll happily take the money to help the grid out.
It really isn't the power as the problem, but the massive amount of people who have fled to Texas. The population of Texas has grown dramatically. Abbott and crew keep on inviting their own demise. They haven't learned yet.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas is in need of a vast rethinking of its priorities. With the generous supply of natural gas readily available, there should be NO reliance on solar or wind power generation at all, and if they want to keep up those ornaments for public display, adjust the electrical power rates accordingly. Do not do things on the cheap, or this agency will go the way of Pacific Gas and Electric, a scapegoat for every ill the (sometime in the future) state government in the hands of (il)liberal Soviet style Democrats can lay upon them.
Consider the fate of the State of California, once a fairly reliable Republican bastion, as the environmentalists gradually wormed their way into political power, and the policies of the generation of electrical power including its distribution.
Ammunition, primers, gun powder.
Driving across the panhandle out of Amarillo, I checked the winf farm as either 22 or 26 miles long and as far as I could see across the horizon
I think I measured 22 miles and added 4 after I realized what I was seeing
For comparison, my ex and now deceased room mate measured a Texas cotton field as 3 miles by as far as you could see.
They absolutely don’t screw around in Texas
The Democrat administration is like the central committee of the USSR, they have a ‘Plan’ for everything. But in reality they just debate the problems, shoot the innocents, and no solutions get done.
A 5 megawatt wind turbine at it’s rated power and speed is turning 12 rpm. So each turn of the rotor would be 5000 kilowatts rather power per hour/ 60 min to an hour/ 12 rotors rotations per min = 7 kWh per spin. The average home uses 1500 kWh in summer and 500 kWh in winter per month so no where near enough per spin. It’s about 3.5 hours of power for the avg home per spin. 1500kWh /31days /24hours =2 kWh per hour.
Would connecting Texas to one of the big networks fix it?
Yeah, but I’m using new math!🤣
Unfortunately, we’re having July weather in May.
We never, ever had power grid problems before. Not until the past couple of years.
I didn’t used to be a conspiracy theorist, but lately I suspect the stinking Democrats behind things like this. They have wanted to destroy our state for a long time. They want that Beto jerk in as governor.
May has been unusually warm around Houston.
Texas doesn’t store natural gas like the Midwest and NE do. It’s use it as it comes out the ground in Texas with a small delay as the gas goes through the clean up plants and pumps to the pipelines. This was the key issue in the freeze. The well heads and surface running poly lines froze solid cutting off 60% of the gas supply. The distribution industry warned the well operators in 2008, again in 2011 and yet again in 2015 that the well heads and poly lines will freeze solid if you don’t winterize them. The oil industry ignored us and the Texas RRC didn’t mandate winterization until after they were forced too by the Texas legislature. Oil/ gas wells are actually contaminated water wells in the Permian basin the average oil to water ratio is one to six as in one bbl of oil to six bbl of salt water the gas is separated at the three way splitter until then it’s in the oil water mixture and that mix will freeze in single digit temps every time. The polymer oil gathering lines are layed directly on the surface in the Permian use Google earth you can see them from space as black snakes all over the landscape those all froze solid cutting off the gas supply at it’s source for days until they thawed out. Every one of those lines needs to be trenched to below the frost line which in that regions is 18” depth or more it would cost billions to trench and bury lines for 100,000+ operating wells so the industry said ok we will.risk a once in a century storm and they got bite for it.
Purple state trending towards blue state.
Econazus from ca moving in to tx is the cause of this
Long term, I wish we could build more nuclear power plants.
Nuclear produces no greenhouse gases, so enviro types should be happy with nuclear.
Just one of the many practice runs of the kleptocrats saving the planet from the Hoi Poloi.
Oh right silly me I forgot math is racists so let me get out my woke to math converters and see how I “feel” about the answers. Then I’ll phone a couple or POC and some LBGTQRSTUV people and get their feelings too let me get back to you in a few weeks after we have a good cry and some drum circle time with some sensitivity instruction.
How could a grid connected to solar panels and windmills go down?
Don’t Unicorn farts keep everything running and save the erf?
Private property owners selling out to someone and making the landscape very ugly.
Nigel Farage in the UK as a politician campaigned against this ugliness in the British countryside and Donald Trump has referenced it in some of his political speaking of late regarding how ugly the turbines are.
Another convert! Thank you! 🤣
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