The Texas Disaster Freezing Sacrifices At The Alter Of Wind And Solar Power

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 1:59 AM

Some may think this is about the weather which visited Texas the past week or so, but their disaster has been ongoing for years.

Texas has claimed to be at the leading forefront of Tech power, replacing reliable Power sources with Renewable Power, such as Solar Power and Wind Power.

Solar Power output was 0% in the past week, just like in Yurp.
Wind power failed as well. Just like in Yurp.

They have been practicing rolling blackouts for years now, knowing their Renewable Energies were a failure, but just ignoring the problem.

Without energy, pumps could not fuel the trucks. Loaded semis sat idling at the edge of the Texas blackout zone, while store shelves remained empty. Milk had to be dumped, as well as eggs, and livestock died without energy.

SECOND

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 5:58 AM

Et Tu, Ted? Why Deregulation Failed

At first, those Texans who didn’t lose power in the big freeze considered themselves lucky. But then the bills arrived — and some families found themselves being charged thousands of dollars for a few days of electricity. Many families probably can’t afford to pay those bills, so we’re potentially looking at a wave of personal bankruptcies. And even those who don’t face ruin are, predictably, outraged.

Possibly the most revealing remark of the Texas crisis so far was a tweet by, of all people, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Cancún), who fumed that “no power company should get a windfall because of a natural disaster” and called on “state and local regulators” to “prevent this injustice.”

The senator, not known for self-awareness, may not realize what he did there. But if even Ted Cruz — Ted Cruz! — believes that regulators should prevent power companies from reaping windfall profits in a disaster, that eliminates any private-sector financial incentive to prepare for such a disaster. And that, in turn, destroys the entire premise behind radical deregulation.

So will the Republicans who hold all of Texas’ statewide offices learn from this debacle, and rethink their whole approach to energy policy? Of course not. Their immediate reaction was to falsely blame the crisis on wind power, and lash out at advocates of a Green New Deal — even though something like a Green New Deal, that is, public investment in energy infrastructure, is exactly what Texas needs.

And one thing we’ve definitely learned over the past few months is that once politicians commit themselves to a Big Lie, whether it involves epidemiology, economics or election results, there’s no turning back.

But while the right-wing political-media complex can’t and won’t learn anything from the Texas power debacle, the rest of us can. We’ve just been offered a clear view of the dark (and cold) side of free-market fundamentalism. And that’s a lesson we shouldn’t forget.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/opinion/texas-electricity-storm.htm
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6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 7:04 AM

Solar Power is great until the sun isn't out.

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A government is a body of people usually, notably, governed by Mark Zuckerborg and Slack Dorsey.

Collection of links to Second's, Nilbog's and Marcos' death threats: https://cutt.ly/tkCvEX6

SECOND

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 5:52 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Solar Power is great until the sun isn't out.

Natural gas is great for generating electricity, until hydrates block pipelines, shutting down the power plant furnaces.
https://petrowiki.spe.org/Hydrate_problems_in_production

Coal is great for electricity until the CO2 from burning coal gets high enough to melt glaciers. The last time the atmospheric CO2 amounts were this high was more than 3 million years ago, when temperature was 3.6°–5.4°F higher than during the pre-industrial era, and sea level was 50–80 feet higher than today.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-ch
ange-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

JONGSSTRAW

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 7:25 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Some may think this is about the weather which visited Texas the past week or so, but their disaster has been ongoing for years.

Texas has claimed to be at the leading forefront of Tech power, replacing reliable Power sources with Renewable Power, such as Solar Power and Wind Power.

Solar Power output was 0% in the past week, just like in Yurp.
WQind power failed as well.

Enron was based in Texas. Biggest energy scam ever. What else does anyone need to know?

SECOND

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 8:23 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Some may think this is about the weather which visited Texas the past week or so, but their disaster has been ongoing for years.

Texas has claimed to be at the leading forefront of Tech power, replacing reliable Power sources with Renewable Power, such as Solar Power and Wind Power.

Solar Power output was 0% in the past week, just like in Yurp.
WQind power failed as well.

Enron was based in Texas. Biggest energy scam ever. What else does anyone need to know?

Let me check Enron: Oct. 12, 2001 Arthur Andersen legal counsel tells auditors to destroy all Enron files, except Enron's most basic documents. Why? Because Enron's leadership was fooling regulators with fake holdings and off-the-books accounting practices.
https://www.investopedia.com/updates/enron-scandal-summary/

What you were seeing with Enron is that Texans will lie for money.

There is an article about Texans (actually Republicans) lying about solar and wind. Fact Check: Is Green Energy to Blame for Texas' Power Outages? No.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-green-energy-power-cuts-texas-1569
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It was natural gas and coal that caused Texas' power outage, but the Texans who own coal/oil/gas companies lied because green power is kicking their asses with cheaper energy prices.

By the way, Enron's auditor, Arthur Andersen LLP, is defunct because it allowed Enron's Texans to lie freely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen#Demise

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 1:59 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Solar Power is great until the sun isn't out.
Natural gas is great for generating electricity, until hydrates block pipelines, shutting down the power plant furnaces.
https://petrowiki.spe.org/Hydrate_problems_in_production

Hey, dumbass, the adults are talking here, m'kay?

Hydtrates are not stopping Power plants, that is the production plants under sea, at the sea floor level.

And now we enter fairyland, courtesy algore's greatest invention besides the Internet:

Quote:

Coal is great for electricity until the CO2 from burning coal gets high enough to melt glaciers. The last time the atmospheric CO2 amounts were this high was more than 3 million years ago, when temperature was 3.6°–5.4°F higher than during the pre-industrial era, and sea level was 50–80 feet higher than today.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-ch
ange-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

1KIKI

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 2:41 AM

Just fyi the endquote [ /quote] function doesn't play well with links. You need to put a space in between the link and the endquote for the endquote to work.

1KIKI

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 2:59 AM

While there are different estimates of how much Texas electricity is generated by which source, and how much of those sources were actually offline during the storm, it's clear that neither solar nor wind power were responsible for either the majority of energy generated during normal times, or for the significant loss of power during the storm.

FWIW I've read that a significant portion of oil and gas electricity production was offline due to 'freezing'. My impression is that this wasn't 'hydrates' but normal water-ice formation at low temperatures. Since a significant portion of oil and nat gas production and transmission (pipeline) is above ground and in metal equipment, and since metal is a fantastic conductor of heat, it seems plausible to me that the entire infrastructure was frozen - and not limited to oil and nat gas production and transmission.

https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/1738339/texas-electricity-generation-st
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https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=TX#tabs-4

These failing sources largely included nuclear plants, coal plants and thermal energy generators. Frozen wind turbines were a factor, too, but Woodfin said wind shutdowns accounted for less than 13% of the outages.
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/17/texas-energy-wind-powe
r-outage-natural-gas-renewable-green-new-deal/6780546002/

SECOND

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 8:24 AM

Fossil Fuel Executives Gloat About Profits From Texas Winter Storm Crisis

As a severe winter storm swept Texas last week, cutting electricity from millions of residents in freezing temperatures and causing nearly 70 deaths so far, some energy executives saw an upside to the catastrophe.

“Obviously, this week is like hitting the jackpot,” boasted Roland Burns, the chief executive and chief financial officer of Comstock Resources, a shale drilling company that benefited from the sudden demand for natural gas, in a call with investors last Wednesday. The price for gas, said Burns, has been “incredible.”

The price of natural gas, which skyrocketed as power plants and industrial consumers scrambled to secure additional supply, benefited other energy interests. Macquarie Group, an investment bank that is the second-biggest physical gas supplier in the U.S., reported a windfall of $210 million from the swing in gas and electricity prices.

More at https://theintercept.com/2021/02/23/texas-winter-storm-gas-prices-exec
utives/

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