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Hey, Dumbfugck50,

"Texas" doesn't own, or construct those.

Dumbass.

So this isn't a state or city dictate because of covid?
Ok. I thought it was gt, but its just an HEB policy .

Thanks for the update.

Never understood why we don’t use more nuclear power. There was a nuclear reactor assembled on Ft Greely in Alaska in the late 1950’s. A 24” nuclear rod would provide enough power in the reactor for months for the whole installation. When it was decommissioned they switched over to diesel powered boilers. The base used more than 100000 gallons of diesel a month to do the same thing that one rod did for several months. We really aren’t that bright as a society!

Texas went cheap on their grid, they are their own worst enemy... they have total control, regulation, and operation of their power grid. They don't buy or sell power outside their own borders. So they have got what they wanted and paid for. They let their wealthy corporate investors do their thinking for them. They wanted cheap and they got cheap, with no federal input or regulation. Its entirely on them. Wasn't green energy, wasn't the wind farms, or anything else to blame it on. Just Texas 5 gallon brains and 10 gallon hats, and no foresight.

Phil

I was waiting for the green energy whores to come out to justify the failure. Amazing that gullible folks believe this paid liar.

Dummy doesn't even know the difference between "to" and "too"

I suspect ERCOT didn’tvuy enough natural gas for this crisis, and didn’t want to pay spot prices to keep the grid powered up. Follow the Money. Fuggers at ERCOT need to swing from tall trees.

[bleep] you!!! Total bull:schidt!!! What the phuque do you know??? You don’t know schidt. The issue here is too [bleep] many illegals and too [bleep] many California [bleep] moving here. Need to be a phuqing bounty on you liberal scum. Yeah I went to pick up meds at HEB here yesterday. Line around the store. Who the [bleep] is in it??? 90% wetbackmotherfucker with their [bleep] and their spandex wearing toltec fireplug baby factories.

What pisses me off is ignorant phuquers just like you moving here and phuqing our [bleep] up and then telling us what we did wrong. Where we phuqued up was not securing our own borders, North, south, east, and west.

Sick of all your worthless lying know it all liberal schiteatin’ scum.

I got schidt to do. Phuque off all your communist [bleep]

I'd give 10%---on a good day.

Useless wind turbines, kill birds and mess with Christmas...

And they ugly.

DF

Don’t sugarcoat it kaywoodie...!

Don't think he did...



DF

I used to be all for it during the Regan administration.
Now I've changed my mind.
Latest is that those reaktorz from the past beyond 20 years should have been decommissioned. Most are leaking and not being repaired.
Other than solar and hydro, I don't know of any clean energy sources, but the reaktorz aren't nearly as clean as the day they installed them.

Just at storage battery technology seems to be a major choke point for "green energy", dealing with spent nuclear material is a big issue in that industry.

If they could develop alternative uses of spent rods, or make something useful out of them, seems that would be a big plus.

Bottom line, we're a long way from walking away from fossel fuel energy, a long way....

To think otherwise is foolish, to move in that direction too fast is reckless...

DF

You sir are a dumbass of the highest order.

I suggest that you need to read up on the system involved before saying anything.

The thing is simple to see the brain trust screwed up when figuring out how much power they needed before they killed those other nat.gas/coal plants.

True.
That might be a weak link in solar too, considering the clouds being #1. AZ & NM sounds reasonable, but I'm not an engineer. I think that the green movement is just one of many ways the big money is able to lead them to make more money. It's easy to convince the school children 8 hours per plus online in the new morality. I'd rather take them to camp with a garbage bag. When we get home, plant a garden and orchard. That's the true green sustainable movement families do.

The rods have been "up cycled" to DU ammo for military use. One reason I would not want anyone close to join Uncle Sam, or want to live in Iraq for the next thousand years. There's a documentary a nurse I used to know made on the subject. She and her husband interviewed Doug Rocky, head of the clean up program. I hope he survived. He was still extremely sick from DU poisoning last I heard.

Atta boy, Bob!

I doubt it sunk in though.

Saw it explained thusly. Solar and wind are not resilient. Solar is completely useless in times like these. Wind is more resilient but still less so than coal or gas. Over the last decade Texas has heavily subsidized wind and solar while removing three coal fired plants from production. Wind and solar are also every expensive to get going. So, Texas has focused its limited budget on those sources to the detriment of properly winterizing, modernizing, and preparing its coal and gas plants. So, those plants, and particularly the gas plants, have had some problems now as well.

It’s disingenuous to the extreme to say coal and gas have had problems. The main reason they have had problems is because we have removed excess generating capacity, cut our reserve margins to the bone, and failed to maintain our traditional and resilient forms of power generation while chasing solar and wind power.

Same photo on this 2016 PDF from Europe:

https://energiforskmedia.blob.core....turbines-energiforskrapport-2016-300.pdf

Bruce

You dumbschidts think Texas owns that crap?

This ain't CA where communism runs rampant, and the state owns everything...

https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/news/biggest-wind-farms-us/