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HockeyDad Offline
#1 Posted:
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Snicker snicker....

But everybody wants some
I want some too
Everybody wants some
Baby, how 'bout you
Ohh oh yeah
Brewha Offline
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I heard this bitter cold is in fact God's wrath for stealing the election from his chosen son.....



Maybe we should slaughter a few lamb chops.
RayR Online
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I heard Texas needs some Global Warming after 50% percent of their Green Energy windmills failed leaving over 4 Million residents in the dark and freezing.

https://youtu.be/lA46v_aMidQ

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/02/15/texas-frozen-wind-power-outages-ensue-electricity-now-at-unheard-of-9000-per-megawatt-hour/






DrafterX Offline
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TW whacks it to Lambchop.... or so I've heard... Mellow
Brewha Offline
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Poor Shari Lewis....
Sunoverbeach Offline
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Not that I'm a Green proponent working in a coal plant and all, but it's not just their windmills and panels. Coal plants and natural gas facilities are freezing up also. Failure to winterize equipment due to cost
Gene363 Offline
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
Not that I'm a Green proponent working in a coal plant and all, but it's not just their windmills and panels. Coal plants and natural gas facilities are freezing up also. Failure to winterize equipment due to cost


Deferred maintenance cost savings are expensive.
fiddler898 Offline
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RayR wrote:
I heard Texas needs some Global Warming after 50% percent of their Green Energy windmills failed leaving over 4 Million residents in the dark and freezing.

https://youtu.be/lA46v_aMidQ

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/02/15/texas-frozen-wind-power-outages-ensue-electricity-now-at-unheard-of-9000-per-megawatt-hour/








https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/climate/texas-power-grid-failures.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

"Reading for comprehension" can be a wonderful thing.
teedubbya Offline
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I heard weather and climate are the same exact thing and stuff

And try to tell me lamb chop isn’t dreamy
delta1 Offline
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seems like during the past 10 years or so, every year there have been reports from several places of some weird disastrous extreme weather event that hasn't happened there in a real long time...


possible Alabama will really get a hurricane this year, and his minions will say how prescient Trump was...sad boiling frogs
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When does Indiana get its Feb/Mar heat wave?
RayR Online
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fiddler898 wrote:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/climate/texas-power-grid-failures.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

"Reading for comprehension" can be a wonderful thing.


OH NO! It's the New York Times! Everything is to be blamed on Climate Change caused by evil peoples!fog
HockeyDad Offline
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Executive Summary:

It is going to cost you more money.
borndead1 Offline
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I work on those cancer causing windmills. Any site that has any type of winter orders cold climate options on their turbines, just like people customize their vehicles. Obviously, TX wasn't expecting a winter like this, so they didn't opt for the cold climate upgrades (blade heaters, cabinet heaters, wind vane heaters, etc.). Now, a lot of these sites will probably start retrofitting this stuff, and it's gonna cost them a helluva lot more than it would have had they not gambled on their long-term weather forecast.
tailgater Offline
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teedubbya wrote:
I heard weather and climate are the same exact thing and stuff



We have equal control of both.
So there's that.


tailgater Offline
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HockeyDad wrote:
Executive Summary:

It is going to cost you more money.


Are you up to date on your cynicism tax?

RayR Online
#17 Posted:
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The problem is top down central planning, regulation bureaucrats and tax payer subsidies. Progressives love that sh*t.
It's the recipe for every major system meltdown.

Texan Eric July explains

https://youtu.be/bfLr1Lkp69c
HockeyDad Offline
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borndead1 wrote:
I work on those cancer causing windmills. Any site that has any type of winter orders cold climate options on their turbines, just like people customize their vehicles. Obviously, TX wasn't expecting a winter like this, so they didn't opt for the cold climate upgrades (blade heaters, cabinet heaters, wind vane heaters, etc.). Now, a lot of these sites will probably start retrofitting this stuff, and it's gonna cost them a helluva lot more than it would have had they not gambled on their long-term weather forecast.


When they ordered those windmills they ordered the “global warming” model instead of the “global cooling” model!
Smooth light Offline
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Everything is BIGGER in Texas.
DrafterX Offline
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the best thing about frozen windmills is they aren't killing eagles right now.... Mellow
Stogie1020 Offline
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Are the eagles frozen too? Because, I could really go for an Eagle smoothie right now.
MACS Offline
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Never let a good crisis go to waste... Texas refineries are cold... that means gas prices bout ta go up again.
deadeyedick Offline
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MACS wrote:
Never let a good crisis go to waste... Texas refineries are cold... that means gas prices bout ta go up again.


Oil already went from $40/bbl to $60 since Joe was elected in anticipation. Frack that.
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Excellent, America elected the Puppet Dictator Biden and it gets what it deserves. I want gas and natural gas prices to go through the roof, the higher the better.
delta1 Offline
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Texas is the Oil and Gas Industry capital of the USA...you can't have a power outage there!!!!

hubris...
MACS Offline
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deadeyedick wrote:
Oil already went from $40/bbl to $60 since Joe was elected in anticipation. Frack that.


Yeaup...
BuckyB93 Offline
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deadeyedick wrote:
Oil already went from $40/bbl to $60 since Joe was elected in anticipation. Frack that.


Joe no likey fracking.
ZRX1200 Offline
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Someone should have told him that it’s just like sniffing children.
CheapPrick Offline
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Stogie1020 wrote:
Are the eagles frozen too? Because, I could really go for an Eagle smoothie right now.


I hear eagle smoothies cost about $10,000
Mr. Jones Offline
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Thank God I filled my heating oil tank in January...

At $2.29???2.39??

My guess is it will be $2.79 by March at least...
tailgater Offline
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MACS wrote:
Never let a good crisis go to waste... Texas refineries are cold... that means gas prices bout ta go up again.


If only we had some major pipeline projects to pump in the fuels...
Smooth light Offline
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My oil stocks are moving on up 💵💵... bought low in july, told you'll!
teedubbya Offline
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We’ve managed to create and control smog in some places. Haven’t figured out what to do with smug yet.
deadeyedick Offline
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teedubbya wrote:
We’ve managed to create and control smog in some places. Haven’t figured out what to do with smug yet.


Just filter it through the NYT?
RayR Online
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Jeffrey Tucker in his article Lockdowns and the Texas Power Disaster points out that according to progressive NBC no less that a major contributing factor to the failure of the grid falls on The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) during the lockdowns.


Quote:
Texas is right now consumed in debate over the question of how the catastrophic power and water outages could have happened. Some people are ready to put the blame on the fragility of wind power while others say that this is unfair scapegoating. It’s a hugely important discussion, given that at least 24 deaths are due to loss of power and that is probably only the beginning.

What seems to have escaped notice, however, is the role that Covid-related lockdowns may have played in reducing inspections and preparations for a possibly brutal winter. With so much of normal life shut down during the spring and summer, and so many people finding every excuse to Zoom meet rather than go to work, power plants were subject to neglect.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) – a quasi-government entity – “manages the flow of electric power on the Texas Interconnection that supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers – representing 90 percent of the state’s electric load.” It is also responsible for inspections, training, and maintenance such as preparing for extreme weather.

An investigation by NBC found that ERCOT “did not conduct any on-site inspections of the state’s power plants to see if they were ready for this winter season. Due to COVID-19 they conducted virtual tabletop exercises instead – but only with 16% of the state’s power generating facilities.”

Read on...

https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-and-the-texas-power-disaster/
delta1 Offline
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and now the unregulated capitalist fossil fuel industry that is responsible for maintaining the state power grid and pretty much runs Texas is blaming wind turbine failure and the Green New Deal, which is just a proposal that hasn't been implemented...about 24% of TX energy comes from wind...56% fossil fuels...19% coal
izonfire Offline
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Ummmmm -
Coal is a fossil fuel Delta...
delta1 Offline
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thanks izon,

the 56% is natural gas

fossil fuel total is 75%
RayR Online
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delta1 wrote:
and now the unregulated capitalist fossil fuel industry that is responsible for maintaining the state power grid and pretty much runs Texas is blaming wind turbine failure and the Green New Deal, which is just a proposal that hasn't been implemented...about 24% of TX energy comes from wind...56% fossil fuels...19% coal


"unregulated capitalist fossil fuel industry". Now you sound like you're spewing Bernie Sanders rhetoric.

How about those lazy COVID scared quasi-governmental bureaucrats at ERCOT who are actually responsible for inspecting the state power grid for winter readiness. Or did you miss that part.


HockeyDad Offline
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delta1 wrote:
and now the unregulated capitalist fossil fuel industry that is responsible for maintaining the state power grid and pretty much runs Texas is blaming wind turbine failure and the Green New Deal, which is just a proposal that hasn't been implemented...about 24% of TX energy comes from wind...56% fossil fuels...19% coal


The Texas power grid is not managed by the unregulated capitalist fossil fuel industry. It is managed by a consortium made up of Berkshire Hathaway, Microsoft, and Pfizer.
izonfire Offline
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delta1 wrote:
thanks izon,

the 56% is natural gas

fossil fuel total is 75%

No problem Delta.

Perhaps you should decrease your reliance on ethnomathematics...
HockeyDad Offline
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delta1 wrote:
thanks izon,

the 56% is natural gas

fossil fuel total is 75%



You forgot that Texas gets 31.5% of its power from nuclear.
DrafterX Offline
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nobody ever remembers the nuclar power.... Sad
BuckyB93 Offline
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That $h!ts dangerous. Doesn't anyone remember Three Mile Island back in 1979?
DrafterX Offline
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That was a hoax portrayed by Green energy peoples... Mellow
delta1 Offline
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HockeyDad wrote:
You forgot that Texas gets 31.5% of its power from nuclear.



source I saw said it's about 10%
delta1 Offline
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DrafterX wrote:
That was a hoax portrayed by Marjorie Taylor Greene and her peoples... Mellow



that b!tch
Smooth light Offline
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For a progressive you sure live in the past alot. That's the flaw in your doga.
izonfire Offline
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They shoulda built a pipeline that feeds directly from TW's a$$hole.
Woulda lit the Lone Star State right up...
Smooth light Offline
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Would it be gas or propane ☺️
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