Elected sea turtle officials have A LOT of answering to do regarding complete and utter ignorance in the face of inclement weather. They are in for some shit when they get back from Mexico.
Which is why Texas cannot operate its own grid. ERCOT admitted that they were not regulating whether or not any winterization or protocols were being followed. This is directly on the Texas government and them and people again were in misery and people died because of Texas politicians. And now, here’s this. https://www.khou.com/mobile/article...grid/285-ac79ebfb-9c0d-44ca-a230-30f0b8e0db7b The fact that Texas isolates itself from the nation's electric grid and outside help during a power crisis doesn't make sense to the nation's top energy cop. “That strikes me as the proverbial cutting off your nose to spite your face," FERC Chairman Rich Glick said. The tough talk comes after ERCOT, the Texas grid manager, said it was prepared for the winter. Just nine days ago, ERCOT's CEO Bill Magness told the agency's board, "We're ready for the several days of pretty frigid temperatures to come our way." And last month, an ERCOT report stated there would there would be "sufficient generating capacity" this winter and the "majority of plants are following their weatherization plans." However, ERCOT concedes there are no mandatory rules in those plans. "Those are more best practices that are voluntary," Dan Woodfin, senior director, system operation, ERCOT, said.
The fact that Texas was literally seconds away from the entire grid going offline and taking months(s) to be restored fully is so fucking scary. All it would have taken is several generation plants going down at the same time before they could shed enough power off of the grid. It could have easily happened considered how many plants had failed.
Houston mayor says he hasn't talked to Wheels at all during this crisis. Wheels hasn't reached out at all. (msnbc)
Why would he? This is completely normal. This is how all states that regularly see winter weather get through it.
Like has been said upthread, comments made by Perry and Wheels this week would have ended political careers 15-20 years ago. Voters would have realized that either you are betraying your state or you are just plain nuts.
Andy Reocho https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fo...lure-leaving-whole-state-dark-ercot-says/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2021/02/18/oncor-ends-controlled-outages-thousands-of-north-texans-still-without-power-due-to-equipment-damage/?outputType=amp
That’s one of the paradoxes I have always loved. Hunters and outdoor sportsmen are some of the most conservative people you will meet and the agencies who administer natural resource programs aren’t exactly stocked with wide-eyed liberals. As soon as you start talking about clean streams to fish and keeping state game lands in a healthy ecosystem to hunt, they’re on board with that. In Ohio, they couldn’t pass an environmental conservation bill to fund ODNR Wildlife efforts, so they added a surcharge to hunting and fishing licenses. The agency does a good job on their website showing how that money is spent and everyone loved it, for the most part.
Yeah doesn’t seem less dumb though as evidenced by our poster with issues. Idk why you would install it outside if you could install it inside where you’re certain to have fewer issues with temperature fluctuations.
A lot of conservation effort is funded by hunting and fishing licenses, tags, ammo and gun taxes etc. You'd also be surprised at how many people who work in the field are not slobbering GOP sycophants. I've worked for several state and federal agencies and they are more liberal than you'd think in deep red states.
If you have an existing house and it is built on a slab, you have to put it where you already have access to water or the cost skyrockets. To simply put it wherever you want in this situation you would have to pull up floor, chip through concrete, tie into main line, pour concrete, and then relay flooring. Or, you can spend ~$12k to have a plumber tunnel under slab to desired spot, drill through floor and slab, and then run plumbing up through floors.
wonder if someone outside of ERCOT will corroborate that. Can easily see those bums leaking this to sound like heroes.
Being a modern conservative and believing in its tenets is basically completely antithetical to conservation at this point.
That was the whole point of taking electricity offline. Plants shut down. Not enough power, when that happens it stresses the system which has more demand than supply. Similar to putting a 30 amp appliance on a 20 amp circuit in your house. But on a much grander scale than that and not a simple as just unplugging the appliance and turning the breaker back on to resolve.
A hollywood writer could literally not make ted cruz look more worthless. And people will still vote for him.
was listening to trillbillies this morning. for some reason whitesburg left tom in charge of their water supply for a night. he promptly fell asleep. the levels got down to 4.2 when every time they went below 14 you're supposed to initiate treatment of water. the dialysis clinic in town ended up getting down to like 2 hours worth of water. he called his boss and they were mad and had to call in all hands on deck and run full time for 2 weeks to get the levels back up. i now understand the dangers of the grid going down even for a moment
That is 10 miles from my hometown. They have quakes there all the time now albeit this one is larger than most. Heavily fracked area. Honest to god though, have seen people from there comment that the quakes are due to the wind turbines, not injecting highly pressurized liquids into the ground.
PIcturing Heidi sitting in misery by the pool, furiously texting group chatters to see if they're the ones who leaked.