The WORST PRESIDENT IN US HISTORY.. TRUMP

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Meanwhile, that Socialist Biden sent generators, blankets and other supplies to help Texans and did NOT demand they kiss his ass to get the help.

Naaa.

That will come later as he demands ever higher taxes to fund his TRILLIONS of dollars of leftist stupidity.

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Texas has increased its overall electricity consumption by 20 percent as the state is attracting people from everywhere and the population is booming

Many from California vermin running away from the consequences of their own stupidity.

 

[KCFlyer]

Naaa.

That will come later as he demands ever higher taxes to fund his TRILLIONS of dollars of leftist stupidity.

They can always turn down the assitance we are trying to give them. To compensate for their own states ineptitude

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Tax dollars for emergencies like a nautural disaster is preparedness. Pulling yourself off the national grid because you don't want those nasty federal regulations (other states seem to be faring much better) and then finding that YOUR decisions created a problem that isn't a problem in 49 other states, then accepting help from the rest is socialism.

Instead they blame the wind generators and mock "the green new deal"...citing Texas as the fate that awaits the rest of us if those tree hugging socialists have their way. But last I checked - Alaska pretty much has it's own power grid (just like Texas) and temps are usually below freezing for the better part of a year. Here's a little story about it.

Like Omaha and Las Vegas.

 

[KCFlyer]

Why did Texas lose power? Math — apolitical, non-ideological, and sometimes cruel math.

During such an extreme cold for which Texas is mostly unprepared, the demands on the electric grid exceeded its output capacity. The majority of Texans heat their home with electricity, and, under typical circumstances, it makes sense. Why spend money to bring natural gas heat into the home when it’s very likely you can go an entire winter without turning it on? As temperatures plummeted, Texans turned on and turned up the heat.


But something else was happening. The extreme cold was impacting all electricity production. All of it: coal, natural gas, nuclear, but most of all wind.

The Department of Energy tracks electricity generation hourly. On Sunday, Feb. 14 at 8 p.m., this was Texas’s electricity makeup in kilowatt-hours:

• • Natural Gas: 43,798
  • Coal: 10,828
  • Wind: 8,087
  • Nuclear: 5,140

The next day, during the height of the storm at 8 p.m., this was the makeup:

• • Natural Gas: 30,917
  • Coal: 8,023
  • Wind: 649
  • Nuclear: 3,785

Why the delta? Natural gas, for starters, experienced a shortage. Those Texans who do have natural gas heating their homes turned it up, and what would have been available for electricity generation, went to homes. Similarly, nuclear and coal were adversely impacted by the cold. These are failures, plain and simple, and they can be explained away as anomalies in an unlikely, black swan scenario.


But what of wind power? Wind turbines froze and were rendered useless. Here is the real reason for the failure and I’ll prove it with an apples-to-apples comparison.

One decade ago, almost to the day, Feb. 2, 2011, extreme put a strain on the electric grid. The electric grid was unable to meet demand, and many experienced rolling blackouts for “https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/1...lures-contributed-to-texas-deadly-power-loss/up to an hour.” Yes, fossil fuel plants also struggled in the cold, but this isn’t about spin or protecting industry or pushing an agenda, it’s about facts.

Fast forward one decade and two weeks, and Texas again faced with extreme cold and a straining electric grid, but it’s not the same electricity mix. Texas for the past ten years had made concerted efforts to go green.

In 2011 about 6 percent of the electricity mix was generated from wind power. Today it’s 25 percent. Simultaneously, Texas has increased its overall electricity consumption by 20 percent as the state is attracting people from everywhere and the population is booming. Furthermore, three coal plants were taken offline. Indeed, the same type of storm of 2011 did not play out in the same circumstances in 2021. Did fossil fuels struggle? Absolutely, but their percentage of the grid dropped significantly.


The difference is wind. So serious is this percentage of the electric grid coming from unreliable wind power that more than two years ago, the Chair of Texas Public Utility Commission called lack of dependable electricity reserves “very scary.” Yet, Texans still saw three coal plants removed completely from the equation, even as a back-up, a safety net.

The question is: Why?

In 2005, then-Governor Rick Perry — who most would agree is a “champion” of the fossil fuel industry — signed into law a mandate requiring Texas to increase its wind power electricity. Why? Rick Perry is not an electrical engineer, and I’m not saying he is to blame for what happened. But even fossil fuel advocate Rick Perry, may have the teensiest notion in his head that fossil fuels are “bad,” insufficient, and therefore, we “need” wind.

In 2017, the Sierra Club celebrated the closing of the Monticello Coal plant in Titus County, Texas. Their campaign “Beyond Coal” is funded with over $500 million from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and they pride themselves on taking more than 60 percent of the coal plants offline in America.


I am sure in Bloomberg’s circles this is considered noble, and I started my group Power The Future to advocate for the thousands of people in rural America who have lost their jobs as a result of his green activism.

But there’s another component to taking coal offline: the 1,800 megawatts of electricity it generated could have genuinely helped stabilize the electric grid. Maybe instead of more than 20 deaths from the cold, the number would be less. Sadly, we’ll never know.

There’s a lot of blame going around, and frankly, most of it is quite stupid. “Republicans Blame” is the Washington Post headline. An NBC News column claims that wind and solar are “fairly small slices of the state’s energy mix” as if 25 percent were trace figures. And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., neither an engineer nor a Texan, tweeted that Texas Governor Abbot needed to “read a book” about his state’s energy supply — whatever that’s supposed to mean. It’s all so very, very stupid.

Energy isn’t sexy. It’s math, physics, and numbers. But it’s also life. We’re told to stop the “existential threat” of climate change we must “go green,” and switch to green energy. I do this for a living and I’ve never seen one confirmed death from “climate change,” but today I can show you several Texan deaths clearly attributable to the cold, and no NBC news spin or AOC twitter stupidity will comfort their families. They are dead from a combination of factors: billionaires don’t like coal, politicians invent mandates, and utility commissioners rest on their reports as well as a severe winter storm.

Fossil fuels aren’t perfect, but renewables aren’t either. They have severe shortcomings, and the results can sometimes be deadly. We can learn from what happened in Texas if we have a serious and necessary conversation about renewable energy. But will we?

China is building more coal plants right now than all of Europe has combined and the reason is simple: it works. China is serious about its energy. I wish we were, too.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/1...lures-contributed-to-texas-deadly-power-loss/

That's a lot words that Governor Abbott summarized....in just a few....the windmills froze.

They also mention 25% loss in capacity (acutally it's less) but if a 747 loses one engine (25% of it's capacity), is it going to auger in?

And again...how'd they keep those windmills in Canada and the northern US running? Texas cut a few corners. Don't blame the windmills.

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

They can always turn down the assitance we are trying to give them. To compensate for their own states ineptitude

Why the f**k should they? They are one of the largest economies in the United States paying huge amounts of taxes and they are growing. You make them out to be some kind of charity case when in fact they pay far more than their fair share.

Are you saying Texas should not expect a return on their (forced) investment? Expecting a return on a fund you pay into during crises is not assistance.

If you think that then feel free to forfeit your Social Security that you paid into all those years.

I never understood why you dumb ass liberals think a welfare queen that has contributed literally NOTHING to the economy but cost should be defended but criticize those actually paying the taxes as some sort of charity case.

 

[delldude]

As long as repubs continue to support a sore loser trump is and being sharply divided as that party is itll be much harder for them to capture the houses. Nancy is retiring in 2 years. So we shall see what occurs

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[La Li Lu Le Lo]

FACE IT !

You OKIES would NEVER Survive/Make-It in a Tough NORTHER NEW ENGLAND Winter !!!!!!!!!!1

OKIES migrate to other states all the time and fare just fine. Yet another comment of yours coming from a place of ignorance.

I guess you don't have much faith in humans to adapt to their environment or you consider those from the south sub human. After reading years of your posts I suspect the latter.

 

[delldude]

That's a lot words that Governor Abbott summarized....in just a few....the windmills froze.

They also mention 25% loss in capacity (acutally it's less) but if a 747 loses one engine (25% of it's capacity), is it going to auger in?

And again...how'd they keep those windmills in Canada and the northern US running? Texas cut a few corners. Don't blame the windmills.

Big black eye for the Green New Deal.....take it to the bank.

 

[delldude]

That's a lot words that Governor Abbott summarized....in just a few....the windmills froze.

They also mention 25% loss in capacity (acutally it's less) but if a 747 loses one engine (25% of it's capacity), is it going to auger in?

And again...how'd they keep those windmills in Canada and the northern US running? Texas cut a few corners. Don't blame the windmills.

How about factory installed anti icing measures that weren't factored in due to the locale. Big black eye for TGND.

Poor reliability for wind turbines. We gotem' all over the Allegheny mountains here and many are in the 'feathered' mode due to high winds quite often....and I'm not sure if they use anti icing either.

 

[KCFlyer]

Why the f**k should they? They are one of the largest economies in the United States paying huge amounts of taxes and they are growing. You make them out to be some kind of charity case when in fact they pay far more than their fair share.

Are you saying Texas should not expect a return on their (forced) investment? Expecting a return on a fund you pay into during crises is not assistance.

If you think that then feel free to forfeit your Social Security that you paid into all those years.

I never understood why you dumb ass liberals think a welfare queen that has contributed literally NOTHING to the economy but cost should be defended but criticize those actually paying the taxes as some sort of charity case.

Texas takes more than they give. Texas doesn't like federal regulation on things like their power grid. They made their mess...now live in it. Had Texas been under Federal regulation instead of a privatized management system, their equipment and facilities might have been updated to meet those nasty regulations. I mean, Amarillo (on a different power grid) has only had rolling blackouts....and they aren't blaming the windmills freezing as a problem.

TExas prides itself on not having a state income tax. But when they decide to pull themselves off a federal system, they should plan on paying to keep that system working. But that might mean that they need to implement at state income tax. So we will take federal aid for our screw up.

 

[KCFlyer]

How about factory installed anti icing measures that weren't factored in due to the locale. Big black eye for TGND.

Poor reliability for wind turbines. We gotem' all over the Allegheny mountains here and many are in the 'feathered' mode due to high winds quite often....and I'm not sure if they use anti icing either.

Yeah...why didn't Texas order some of those windmills like Alaska has. Especially when Texas has no other sources to get power from. Bottom line - it was AVAILABLE. And in the part of Texas where the vast majority of the Texas windmills are located, wintertime temperatures can often fall below freezing.. But they didn't by the right package.

 

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[delldude]

Yeah...why didn't Texas order some of those windmills like Alaska has. Especially when Texas has no other sources to get power from. Bottom line - it was AVAILABLE. And in the part of Texas where the vast majority of the Texas windmills are located, wintertime temperatures can often fall below freezing.. But they didn't by the right package.

Quite a few are so old they need replaced and they'll have to bury their environmentally unfriendly blades underground.

Black eye for the green new deal.

 

[delldude]

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