Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold

[Foreigner Looking In.]

Would never have happened under Trump's watch.

Not only would it have happened under Trump's watch (Biden hasn't been in the WH long enough to have done anything about it), it probably would have been worse. Just look at Trump's appalling record with regard to COVID.

That's funny.
Joe was either sleeping, go karting, or celebrating unmasked since Jan 20th.
He's out of his depth.
Hope you have the stamina to defend him for 4 years.

 

[candycorn]

So my central heat would work if my power was off?

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Texas is an example of tragedy of the masses. Relying on heat pumps instead of furnaces.

Why do you think that is?

 

[candycorn]

Would never have happened under Trump's watch.

Not only would it have happened under Trump's watch (Biden hasn't been in the WH long enough to have done anything about it), it probably would have been worse. Just look at Trump's appalling record with regard to COVID.

That's funny.
Joe was either sleeping, go karting, or celebrating unmasked since Jan 20th.
He's out of his depth.
Hope you have the stamina to defend him for 4 years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than the blob.

 

[Lysistrata]

Texas has had poor leadership for decades. It's "leaders" are only involved with their choices about social/ideological issues. The people living their state, actual texans, can go rot, according to their leaders like abbott.

In this crisis, we can do nothing but wait and watch. I have a heated place with water. I would love to invite those in Texas to come and stay with me. But they are a thousand miles away, so there is nothing that I can do but send my good wishes and prayers.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

Bloomberg (Green) advised Texans to rely on freaking windmills (stalled on ice) and solar energy (covered in a foot of snow). Now it costs more money to de-ice a windmill than it's potential productivity.

Why do they work so well in Russia, Denmark and European countries in their harsh winters?

Windmills work well here. We have them all over the central and eastern part of the state where normal winters year after year are way below freezing for months on end.

The windmills keep turning and don't freeze.

Because we take the proper steps to make sure they don't freeze.

Texas doesn't.

I will point out that there were no windmills in Texas in 1989 and not as many in 2011.

I will also point out that the fossil fuel electric plants lost twice as much megawatt power as the windmills lost. The windmills only lost 16 mw. The fossil fuel plants lost 30 mw.

The windmills aren't the problem.

Why is it freezing windmills in Taxas?
Were'nt we told to prepare for global warming?

 

[meaner gene]

The heat pump is the home temperature option designed for use in the south. Many southern families prefer heat pumps for a simple reason: they function as both a home heating and cooling system. Because heat pumps operate by performing a heat exchange with the air, they can operate either way: pulling heat from the air or exhausting heat into the air. You only need one system, rather than two (a separate AC and furnace), when you have a heat pump.

Heat pumps draw more and more power as the air temperature drops. Below 32 degrees their efficiency is low. By zero degrees, it's efficiency is near zero. Which means their power grid on zero degree days has to be as robust as during hundred degree days.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

Would never have happened under Trump's watch.

Not only would it have happened under Trump's watch (Biden hasn't been in the WH long enough to have done anything about it), it probably would have been worse. Just look at Trump's appalling record with regard to COVID.

That's funny.
Joe was either sleeping, go karting, or celebrating unmasked since Jan 20th.
He's out of his depth.
Hope you have the stamina to defend him for 4 years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than the blob.

Yeah, 70'000 Covid dead.
Texas in blackouts.
Big gaping hole in Mexican border.
China given green light to continue with concentration camps.
Americans still waiting for bread crumbs Covid cheque.
Women's sports destroyed.
Anti White ethos returned to schools.

 

[candycorn]

Would never have happened under Trump's watch.

Not only would it have happened under Trump's watch (Biden hasn't been in the WH long enough to have done anything about it), it probably would have been worse. Just look at Trump's appalling record with regard to COVID.

That's funny.
Joe was either sleeping, go karting, or celebrating unmasked since Jan 20th.
He's out of his depth.
Hope you have the stamina to defend him for 4 years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than the blob.

Yeah, 70'000 Covid dead.
Texas in blackouts.
Big gaping hole in Mexican border.
China given green light to continue with concentration camps.
Americans still waiting for bread crumbs Covid cheque.
Women's sports destroyed.
Anti White ethos returned to schools.

LOL...

Fake news.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

Would never have happened under Trump's watch.

Not only would it have happened under Trump's watch (Biden hasn't been in the WH long enough to have done anything about it), it probably would have been worse. Just look at Trump's appalling record with regard to COVID.

That's funny.
Joe was either sleeping, go karting, or celebrating unmasked since Jan 20th.
He's out of his depth.
Hope you have the stamina to defend him for 4 years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than the blob.

Yeah, 70'000 Covid dead.
Texas in blackouts.
Big gaping hole in Mexican border.
China given green light to continue with concentration camps.
Americans still waiting for bread crumbs Covid cheque.
Women's sports destroyed.
Anti White ethos returned to schools.

LOL...

Fake news.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

Thats a piss poor retort.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Bloomberg (Green) advised Texans to rely on freaking windmills (stalled on ice) and solar energy (covered in a foot of snow). Now it costs more money to de-ice a windmill than it's potential productivity.

Why do they work so well in Russia, Denmark and European countries in their harsh winters?

Because they're not. Their "green energy" wind and solar aren't fucking working either.

Berlin On The Brink! Winter Blackouts Loom

Coal Plants Run At 100% Capacity, Struggle To Keep Lights On Wintertime wind and solar energy “between 0 and 2 or 3 percent – that is de facto zero,” says German power distribution professor. Berl…

iowaclimate.org

 

[meaner gene]

Texas is an example of tragedy of the masses. Relying on heat pumps instead of furnaces.

Why do you think that is?

It's cheaper when you have a mild winter.

In the north the power grid peaks during the summer, and blackouts in winter are due to ice taking down powerlines not lack of generating capacity.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

The equivalent of 25 September 11's due to the China Virus, and old Joe is playing with Go Karts.

 

[meaner gene]

Why is it freezing windmills in Taxas?
Were'nt we told to prepare for global warming?

You confuse climate with weather. Global warming doesn't mean you don't have frigid days in winter.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

This is the third time this has happened.

It comes down to deregulation. The people of Texas want no regulations so this is what they get.

Their electricity is privatized. There are no regulations or any consequences for not upgrading and winterizing. There are suggestions. That's it.

So because it's all privatized profit is put first. Not human life. Thus people are dying in Texas because profit for a private company is more important.

That last time it happened the federal government did an assessment, gave the state a report of what is wrong and how to fix it. The state and the private companies did nothing.

This is going to keep happening because money is more important than human life in Texas.

The people of Texas aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again. The private companies aren't willing to pay what it takes to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Yet where did the Texans run quickly run to first?

You guessed it, the federal government. Biden is sending help. I thought the scariest words in the English language were "I'm from the federal government and here to help." Whatever happened to that conservative "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and " take personal responsibility?"

Texas Was Warned a Decade Ago Its Grid Was Unready for Cold

(Bloomberg) -- Federal regulators warned Texas that its power plants couldn’t be counted on to reliably churn out electricity in bitterly cold conditions a decade ago, when the last deep freeze plunged 4 million people into the dark.They recommended that utilities use more insulation, heat pipes...

finance.yahoo.com

The whole damned country is in this kind of shape for God's sakes.

Which other states are having the massive power outages that Texas is suffering through?

California every summer. For the same reasons. A misplaced belief in the hoax of global warming.

 

[candycorn]

Texas is an example of tragedy of the masses. Relying on heat pumps instead of furnaces.

Why do you think that is?

It's cheaper when you have a mild winter.

In the north the power grid peaks during the summer, and blackouts in winter are due to ice taking down powerlines not lack of generating capacity.

ok

 

[candycorn]

The equivalent of 25 September 11's due to the China Virus, and old Joe is playing with Go Karts.

It'll take a while to recover from the blob's mis-management of the viral response. Cases are dropping.

Joe's doing a great job.

 

[candycorn]

Would never have happened under Trump's watch.

Not only would it have happened under Trump's watch (Biden hasn't been in the WH long enough to have done anything about it), it probably would have been worse. Just look at Trump's appalling record with regard to COVID.

That's funny.
Joe was either sleeping, go karting, or celebrating unmasked since Jan 20th.
He's out of his depth.
Hope you have the stamina to defend him for 4 years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than the blob.

Yeah, 70'000 Covid dead.
Texas in blackouts.
Big gaping hole in Mexican border.
China given green light to continue with concentration camps.
Americans still waiting for bread crumbs Covid cheque.
Women's sports destroyed.
Anti White ethos returned to schools.

LOL...

Fake news.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

Thats a piss poor retort.

Its designed to set you off. And it's working. Hope you can keep this up for four years.

Joe's doing a great job. Much better than your blob.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

Why is it freezing windmills in Taxas?
Were'nt we told to prepare for global warming?

You confuse climate with weather. Global warming doesn't mean you don't have frigid days in winter.

What a canard.
The whole ethos of the doom sayers has been temperature within our lifetime.....which is weather not climate.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Why is it freezing windmills in Taxas?
Were'nt we told to prepare for global warming?

You confuse climate with weather. Global warming doesn't mean you don't have frigid days in winter.

In places that do not have frigid weather? No.

It could be that this is just caused by the same sunspot minimum that legitimate scientists have been warning about for years.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

The equivalent of 25 September 11's due to the China Virus, and old Joe is playing with Go Karts.

It'll take a while to recover from the blob's mis-management of the viral response. Cases are dropping.

Joe's doing a great job.

Cases are dropping because the WHO (on the day of Biden's inauguration) decided to count only cases with symptoms.
Who do you think you are kidding here?