It's Official: Texas has achieved Third-World Status
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I brought my Ariens Deluxe 28 to the shop and had him change the drive and auger belts. It's going into it's 10th winter and I didn't want any surprises.
bigwheelzip
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We've done it before. The FFTF site in the 400 area at Hanford.
Saw an article about the type of wind-turbines with heaters and ice mitigation systems that allow operation to -22°F. The features can add about 5 percent to the cost.
This article states, as others here have already mentioned, the failure of the unregulated Texas gas distribution network is responsible for the lions share of power generation failure in this event.
What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
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LVSteve
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ERCOT to change Texas energy prices to meet high demand amid winter storm | kvue.com
Emergency meeting yesterday took place, where ERCOT argued vociferously the need to spike prices during these times of 'unprecedented demand.'
Rolling blackouts aren't a sign of supply failure to them. They're a sign that they need to be charging more.
That's an energy control model I've seen exercised on the West Coast in past years. It might still be the norm but I don't know anybody that lives in that area any more.
They just need some big peaker generators to run during energy demand spikes like these. We have a number of them around Puget Sound. My drinking buddy was manager of 2 of them. One a massive diesel IC, the other a GE frame 7 derivative turbine running either diesel or Nat Gas.
Heck, the Grant Co PUD in Eastern Washington had a whole station on their network hooked up to @20 smallish turbines in ConEx box type enclosures for emergencies.
Heck, the Grant Co PUD in Eastern Washington had a whole station on their network hooked up to @20 smallish turbines in ConEx box type enclosures for emergencies.
LVSteve
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Everybody around the world has been looking for fusion to happen, but it hasn't. This has led to a stagnation in interest in fission reactors. Given that fusion appears to be a ways off, I think the time has come to suck it up and build some of these low pressure reactors. The sodium reactor looks great until you read more about sodium. Bad stuff on the loose. The molten salt reactors may be a better bet.
Molten salt reactor - Wikipedia
Wife's sister is down in Texas and getting shut off regularly and she only has electric heat. Some are pointing at the frozen windmills and snow covered solar panels, but during a big storm in 2011 it was the coal fire generators that froze up and went down. Same thing happened in 1989
It is very easy too freeze up a coal burner, poor operations and poor maintenance practices. The company I work for went into cold weather coverage for maintenance to quickly address any freezing operations last week. The plant I work at had a trip a little over a week or two ago due to a faulty signal to a fan, while the unit was down we had freezing in a coal silo. I spent 16 hours on the clock at the plant, then another 8 hours sleeping in a chair waiting for the next day due to the bad weather. The power companies want to get rid of the coal burners due to the high costs of maintaining them, they all cut corners on maintenance (think run to failure) because the lower cost plants are the ones that get to run. Can't waite to see what kind of mess I get to into tomorrow, it's been a long weekend.
That's nothing. There's enough depleted uranium sitting at Savannah River to power the entire US electrical grid for the next 700.
Fast spectrum using chloride salts for the win. Burn DU, warhead plutonium, everything.
Little pitch as I know Ed Phiel.
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February 2011 - Texas caused regional blackouts when their faulty practices came home to roost.
https://www.nerc.com/pa/rrm/ea/February%202011%20Southwest%20Cold%20Weather%20Event/SW_Cold_Weather_Event_Final.pdf
A google search does not bring up these results but a very quick bing search does.
Germany still constructing new coal power stations | Airclim
Energy in Germany - Wikipedia
There are many others but time constraints prevent me from posting them. The upshot is that Germany will be building coal/lignite fired power stations while closing nuclear and older coal fired plants.
If I was a cynic I'd think google was trying to hide these results.
bigwheelzip
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Your reference is for the single new plant that came on line.
Seems the German parliament passed the legislation in June last year, to quit coal by 2038.
Germany agrees plan to phase out coal power by 2038 - BBC News
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That's right. I'm a Texan. Most of our statistics are third world.
Unionization
Wages
Health
Teenage pregnancy
Poverty
Education
Vaccination
Prenatal care
Infant mortality
Worker safety
Consumer rights and remedies
If it weren't for Mississippi, Alabama or West Virginia, we'd be at the bottom of the heap.
Unionization
Wages
Health
Teenage pregnancy
Poverty
Education
Vaccination
Prenatal care
Infant mortality
Worker safety
Consumer rights and remedies
If it weren't for Mississippi, Alabama or West Virginia, we'd be at the bottom of the heap.
I liked your post of the fact, not the facts themselves. Sad for such a rich state.
Protected One
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.....and your power generation facilities are winterized, like ours here in Michigan.
That's nothing. There's enough depleted uranium sitting at Savannah River to power the entire US electrical grid for the next 700.
I firmly believe we can built safe nuke plants. First they all need to be built on the same design. Then you will end up with a huge pool of knowledge on that design, If a problem is discovered in one plant you can check or upgrade it in all the others. Has worked for the US navy for a long time now. I don't care if it is coal, nuke, gas, solar, wind or a pixie dust machine the key to continuous SAFE operation is good maintenance and inspections.
Sistema1927
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Many people in Texas are realizing this morning that they should have replaced their car battery last fall.
I wonder what T Boone Pickens would say about this.
I'm sure glad that were connected to Hydro Quebec.
I'm sure glad that were connected to Hydro Quebec.
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I was here in 2000, when an ice storm knocked out all the power in the Ark-la-tex. You don't have blackouts, when everyone is blacked out. The only lights in houses were the ones who had generators or oil lamps. No heat unless you had a firplace, or gas stoves and heaters. No TV, computers, cell phone service was out. My office was dark and cold,but I had a non electric land line phone that worked the whole time. The power was out for nearly a week, and a lot longer for lots of people. This one ain't squat for us, but further south where lots of ice is, I feel for them. This isn't up north, and we'll get by. Just like the northern folks get by when it's 100 degrees up there and there's no A/C. Imagine the load on the grid, if everyone drove a Tesla!
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