Texas grid fails yet again

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Proof that Libertarianism is always a failure

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huh?

You're not aware that Biden blames Putin and Ultra MAGAs ?

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Random words put together that mean nothing.

You are a Hawkeye10 sock. Nailed ya. You need to learn to hide your style Hawk.

Listing your fallacies is not random words. YALSA. No argument presented. It's amazing how fast liberals turn to calling people socks when they have no argument left. Since liberals often project their own problems on others, I must assume the possibility that you are a sock of someone else. You could possibly be just hallucinating as well.

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I'm somewhat surprised that those Texas rubes had electricity to begin with.

Bigotry.

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You Libratard believe that kind of stuff.

They're going to use it to terraform Earth.

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Well it should run for days unattended because the natural gas. But I personally wouldn't want it more than a week unattended. My brother had it on continuously for about 2.5 weeks but he checked on it daily but didn't need to do any thing. Also you can switch between natural gas and gasoline without modification once you install the natural gas regulator on the generator. I bought my Generac from Lowes and ordered the conversion kit hose and electrical hook up on line. Also if your brother is handy its not hard to install a gas valve on the gas pipe that comes from the meter to the house.

Also the Generac 8,000 watt is push button start.

Sounds like a nice system.

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It was unusually hot in (at least part of) Wisconsin too. The station at the Dane County Regional Airport recorded a high temp of 93 degrees on Thursday May 12th, and for a few days around that time the highs were either at or very close to 90 degrees. For context, that's usually about the hottest that this airport station ever gets even during the summer season.

See?! Global Warming is DEFINITELY a problem!

Too bad it didn't come to the Pacific NW. Another week is cold and miserable rain. We'll get back at you though! We'll just send you all our rain!

[gfm7175]

Too bad it didn't come to the Pacific NW. Another week is cold and miserable rain. We'll get back at you though! We'll just send you all our rain!

Please do! It's been rather dry around here (the creek by me that is usually quite high (or overflowing) this time of year is but a piss trickle atm). The great blue herons that come by to visit me each spring could barely find a chub or two in there to eat.

We could also use some of your rain for our freshly planted crops. Don't worry, we don't let it go to waste like the SDTC does...

[gfm7175]

You're not aware that Biden blames Putin and Ultra MAGAs ?

I bet he also blames the great MAGA king...

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Please do! It's been rather dry around here (the creek by me that is usually quite high (or overflowing) this time of year is but a piss trickle atm). The great blue herons that come by to visit me each spring could barely find a chub or two in there to eat.

We could also use some of your rain for our freshly planted crops. Don't worry, we don't let it go to waste like the SDTC does...

I'm sure you won't! We can trust you with our rain.

[Walt]

ERCOT is defunct. It only ran part of the Texas grid.

ERCOT still exists, and still provides electricity to 26 million customers in Texas, which is 90% of the load. It basically controls all Texas Interconnection.

[Mina]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...plan-rcna28849



It’s hot in Texas

So the grid fails yet again


6 of their electricity plants fail at once





Right wing idiots can’t run things

Why do idiots love their failure?

When Texas decided to go it alone, electrically, to avoid having to deal with FERC oversight, it was a plan that relied on a certain level of home-grown competence. For a while, I guess that worked OK, because though their governors weren't always the brightest bulbs on the Christmas Tree (e.g., GW Bush), even the dumb ones effectively recognized a line between technocratic positions to be staffed by career professionals and managed apolitically, and more partisan positions to be used for patronage or posturing. But with Perry and Abbot, you've got more of that modern breed of Republican where EVERYTHING is a position to use for patronage or posturing. I'm not sure they're capable of fencing an area off from partisan politics to preserve competence, any more.

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ERCOT still exists, and still provides electricity to 26 million customers in Texas, which is 90% of the load. It basically controls all Texas Interconnection.

No. It owns no power generating stations. It owns no transmission lines. Those are maintained by about a dozen or so companies. ERCOT doesn't provide a single watt of electricity to anyone.

ERCOT's purpose is to be a State wide dispatcher. They are essentially a government agency. Since the directory was fired and the rest of the board quit over the mishandling of the Texas Freeze, it is now defunct. ERCOT still handles dispatching, but is now more directly overseen by the government.

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When Texas decided to go it alone, electrically, to avoid having to deal with FERC oversight, it was a plan that relied on a certain level of home-grown competence. For a while, I guess that worked OK, because though their governors weren't always the brightest bulbs on the Christmas Tree (e.g., GW Bush), even the dumb ones effectively recognized a line between technocratic positions to be staffed by career professionals and managed apolitically, and more partisan positions to be used for patronage or posturing. But with Perry and Abbot, you've got more of that modern breed of Republican where EVERYTHING is a position to use for patronage or posturing. I'm not sure they're capable of fencing an area off from partisan politics to preserve competence, any more.

It still works quite well.

Too bad it's not working out so well in the SDTC.

[Walt]

No. It owns no power generating stations. It owns no transmission lines. Those are maintained by about a dozen or so companies. ERCOT doesn't provide a single watt of electricity to anyone.

ERCOT coordinates all of Texas Interconnection, and therefore provides all electricity provided to customers on the Texas Interconnection. It subcontracts out the generation, and rents the lines to deliver that electricity. When the Texas Grid fails, it is ERCOT that is responsible.

Since the directory was fired and the rest of the board quit over the mishandling of the Texas Freeze, it is now defunct. ERCOT still handles dispatching, but is now more directly overseen by the government.

The board has been replaced. The Texas State Government does not have the ability to keep the grid working, so must use ERCOT. If ERCOT was defunct, the Texas grid would be no more.