Winter Storm or Summer Heat / Texas Electric System

I think I know the answer to your question…

 

This third world **** doesn’t happen in moblihoma. My electric costs $200/mo and I get fiber optic internet for $55 through them.

 

My electric & gas combined bill is the same as yours. Fiber optic internet is $65.

 

Great, we will be sure to refer the 1,000 per day californian invaders and 2,000 illegals crossing the border a day to Oklahoma. I'm really curious more about water supplies than electricity. Just a matter of time until all the incoming idiots drain all of our aquifers.

 

That's the problem. We're quickly outgrowing our infrastructure. Okies have no electricity problems because nobody wants to live in that ********.

 

Where did you find Willie Brown's wallet photo of Quemala?

 

That is part of it. So is an anti-human and development mind set in those who hold power. I think Abbott is making money off of renewable advocacy. The wind and solar companies are getting a large amount of government dollars.

 

That and Texas has actively shut down power plants that weren't at full life time yet. That and they won't build more.

 

It was a problem created apparently by two things: ONE company having issues (Oncor) and the fact that the State was only getting 17% output from the wind-based generation facilities.

Maybe, and I am just spitballing here, reliance on wind and solar is not all it is cracked up to be...

 

mb,

There is a reason a group has owned the lease for wind turbines off SPI and haven't built anything in over a decade.

Are you old enough to remember Jimmy Carter's favorite words - "the more plentiful coal"?

 

A portfolio approach with more than just a nod toward reducing CO2 or methane into the atmosphere sounds good in theory.

There are three things that are critical in our sources of energy:

1) Safety
2) Reliability
3) Affordability

As a society, we've added a fourth:

4) Environmentally friendly

You could make a complete speech or brief about all four of those items but in the end, what we want is that heat or air-conditioning on demand. Too many things go wrong (including the loss of lives) when it's not available.

There is a sweet spot somewhere but what I'm hoping is that the renewables are more hedge than primary.

The argument could be made that our renewable portion of the portfolio was at fault if we substituted renewables for natural gas. Of course, natural gas is not 100% reliable but if you substitute something that is even less reliable then what is at fault?

In the end, the primary source of electrical generation power should be the most reliable method we have. But it must be safe. And it must be affordable. And it must not pollute the environment.

T'aint easy.

 

Start by eliminating tires from all cars & trucks, then all playing surfaces return to grass, wood, concrete. Ain't happening, particularly when the federal government wants to bury tires, which take only about 50,000 years to dissolve all the while they leach oil into the ground and methane gas into the air.

 

I literally laughed out loud at this.

 

Yes...and old enough to remember the seam that is STILL burning in Centralia and basically killed a town because it burned so hot.