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Captain Monkey posted:We pay Bitcoin miners an enormous fortune so that they stop mining, and have either blackouts or rolling brownouts to save the companies that control ERCOT slightly higher energy costs. I think the miners now have their own private natural gas wells.
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Cojawfee posted:I think the miners now have their own private natural gas wells. ah, my mistake
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zoux posted:Government should do my laundry. Right now the forecast on ERCOT's site is that we will cross the threshold.
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Where Texas goes in 2024, so goes the nation. Overwhelmingly.
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who would've thought that it got hot in texas in the summer? if only we knew we could've prepared the grid
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i say swears online posted:https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-alcohol-czar-says-us-may-follow-canada-limit-beers-two-week Wonder what this guy thinks about the government and women's bodies wait no I don't.
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Is it just rolling blackouts, survive without A/C for 15 minutes every few hours, or is it one of those "once the threshold is crossed, a cascade failure explodes every transformer simultaneously" things?
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PostNouveau posted:Is it just rolling blackouts, survive without A/C for 15 minutes every few hours, or is it one of those "once the threshold is crossed, a cascade failure explodes every transformer simultaneously" things? Rolling is the plan, but a cascading failure could bring things down a few hours. The winter freeze problem also coincided with gas plants freezing up, which room down a bunch of capacity. This is demand driven, so a serious outage would be from insane mismanagement of the grid and things shutting down to prevent mechanical damage.
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Oil! posted:so a serious outage would be from insane mismanagement of the grid and things shutting down to prevent mechanical damage. oh no
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Oil! posted:Rolling is the plan, but a cascading failure could bring things down a few hours. The winter freeze problem also coincided with gas plants freezing up, which room down a bunch of capacity. This is demand driven, so a serious outage would be from insane mismanagement of the grid and things shutting down to prevent mechanical damage. The bigger question is how much time and effort has been put into developing plans to manage rolling blackouts? It could be a situation where summer of 2021/2022 really hammered home that it's a serious concern, and they need a playbook - or it could be that ERCOT and the various energy companies throw up their hands and say "This could never have been foreseen!" I wouldn't bet money on it either way.
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Shooting Blanks posted:The bigger question is how much time and effort has been put into developing plans to manage rolling blackouts? It could be a situation where summer of 2021/2022 really hammered home that it's a serious concern, and they need a playbook - or it could be that ERCOT and the various energy companies throw up their hands and say "This could never have been foreseen!" I wouldn't bet money on it either way. I would, and I know which way.
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I would bet every penny I have and every penny from everyone I've ever known on the latter.
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The state has studiously avoided giving the slightest mention to the failures of the natural gas industry which took the freeze from "30 minute rolling blackouts, a couple hours at worst" to "maybe in three days". Turns out natural gas fired power stations can't do jack poo poo if the gas line is reading 0 psi because the gas industry is unable to meet combined heating and industrial demand. Maybe running critical parts of the gas distribution infrastructure on grid-supplied electricity without meaningful backup and not properly insulating/heating parts which deal with drilling products that are prone to freezing isn't a good thing? Can't admit that the O&G industry isn't the perfect solution to all energy questions. Nope let's blame wind and solar.
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Shifty Pony posted:Can't admit that the O&G industry isn't the perfect solution to all energy questions. Nope let's blame wind and solar. Those dinosaurs died for you and it would be unamerican to not use every last of their molecules for energy before we move onto using ghost breath and god rays, alright?
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Shifty Pony posted:Can't admit that the O&G industry isn't the perfect solution to all energy questions. Nope let's blame wind and solar. Sure, you want to complain about wells getting shut in because it was too cold. People would complain if everything started leaking because pipes burst. They heat trace equipment further up north, but it didn't make sense in West and South Texas where extended freezes didn't happen, until they did. Cael posted:Those dinosaurs died for you and it would be unamerican to not use every last of their molecules for energy before we move onto using ghost breath and god rays, alright? The rocks are older than dinosaurs!
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Let's loving goooooooooooo 110 here we come. Hurry up and burn up more dead dinosaur juice to help put us over the edge. Temperatures in Houston will challenge the all-time record high again Sunday https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-weather/forecast/article/houston-all-time-high-temperature-18332205.php
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Oil! posted:
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riddle me this u climate change hoaxers: if we burn up more dead dinosaurs to add capacity to the grid now won't it get hotter and cause more problems in the future??? check. mate.
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Arcella posted:whats all that white stuff A photoshop of a fantasy setting.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Well my power is out since we heard a "bang" about an hour ago, and drat if we haven't heard two more bangs in that time. So I figure that puts me ahead of the rest of y'all. Catch up! please stop shooting at the transformers
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Google Jeb Bush posted:please stop shooting at the transformers You know where you're posting, right?
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That’s what they WANT you to think
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Lemniscate Blue posted:You know where you're posting, right? New YORK city!?!
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zoux posted:At any rate the calls for conversation should be over....if the extended forecast is to be believed ¬_¬ I will never abandon diplomacy
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i say swears online posted:I will never abandon diplomacy This state doesn't do good with doves.
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Dameius posted:This state doesn't do good with doves. I reckon they've got about 3 more days.
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Arcella posted:I reckon they've got about 3 more days. *paints camo on face. cracks 9th Lone Star. spills box of shells on dirt. loads shotgun.*
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