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  1. 1 minute ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    There were a lot of companies that ended up without enough gas in storage during that mess.  That one impacted the East Coast and Midwest population centers, and I believe was more widespread than this one, which has largely been focused on Texas.

    Right.  NRG snapped up their retail NE and Texas portfolio for a song from what I heard at the time. 

  2. 2 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    On the failure to deliver, since there are supply problems where the gas is frozen coming out of the wellhead, and they having issues even sending it through the pipes, I would imagine they will claim Force Majeure (Act of God).

    indeed, im sure the lawyers got em buttoned up.

  3. 12 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    Capacity market would be a good first step.  You also have to remove any price caps from the energy market itself (i.e. the 9,000 per hour cap that is in place now).  I would also like to see more ancillary services come online to help with these.  Customers could sell the right for ERCOT to take their energy offline in the case of a grid emergency.  These already exist in ERCOT (Balancing Up Loads), but I am not sure that individual retail customers can take advantage of this. I believe in PJM they can, so why not monetize that as much as possible.  Hell, individual houses (i.e. retail customers) who have distributed generation (i.e. solar panels or a wind turbine) and are producing more than they can consume should be able to sell into the grid as well (I know there was talk that they could, but I am not sure if they can actually).  

    Texas as a state needs to start investing heavily into battery tech and energy storage research.  There is zero reason they should not be leading in this given their investment in wind.

    I'm a few years removed from the scene, but I remember discussions of an uncapped market.   I also remember there being problems with the grid itself across the power zones with certain spots being susceptible to congestion and creating pricing issues. 

    Interesting point on the distributive generation, and as difficult as it was just getting smart meters installed, it seems that now that they are, there are lots of innovative products could arise.  However,  I cant see the power brokers, pun intended, allowing anyone else to "tap into the game" such as individual houses bidding into interruptible load markets.  Maybe an REP could offer a product / plan and couple with solar.  Get enough customers and start putting generation back into the grid, just thinking off the cuff.

     

  4. How much of this is a failure of imagination?  Its clear that the tools available to mitigate this disaster were not sufficient as well as the scenario planning.  With the loss of generation, I cant help but think about the challenger o rings failure.  No getting around weather being one of, if arguably not the most significant variable driving demand, but in a world that is seeing much more extreme temperature on both ends, it seems clear that the current design has areas that need improvement.  I'm not sure a capacity market is a cure all, but definitely seems to be something that should have been implemented long ago.  

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  5. 1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

    Here's what it feels like to me.

    I've had to take the biggest of shit for the last 4 years but have been unable to. I've been dropping gas bombs stinking up everywhere and everyone around me but I've been lying the whole time blaming other people. I've also been leaking ass juice everywhere and blaming the dog. 

    Well, after 4 years of gut wrenching painful constipation, this morning I took the most massive shit. Feels great but now my dumped clogged up the entire city plumbing system and there's ass juice everywhere that someone needs to clean up. Happy to take that shit, but not looking forward to cleaning up 4 years of mess.

     

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  6. 10 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    The good news is most of the idiots can't keep their mouth shut about their love of MAGA. should be fairly easy to get them to out themselves. 

    It's not the ones that cant keep their mouth shut that you should worry you. While I tend to subscribe to the George Carlin theory on the average person (and some may argue that is especially true of MAGA nation), there's a whole of money that's been  invested until now and more to come .  And those who invest.  do it with the expectation of ROI.

  7. 5 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    It's not a deep state, it's a shallow puddle of headless agencies. More than half of the federal agencies that exist to protect us (on paper at least) have either an acting head or no leadership. It's damn near impossible to coordinate a response and share information when there is such a high level of institutional chaos - that's not my opinion, it's the opinion of the FBI and capitol police.

    But yes, trump has installed his own set of loyalists in agencies across the federal government. That's why there's so few that have actually been confirmed, and many more agencies without leadership after refusing to do his dirty work.

    So just the final product of a deconstructed administrative state.  Maybe there is some method to the madness? 3D chess?

  8. 3 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    1) hi tahoe or rex or whoever's sock this is

    2) Unnecessary - the feds already have all the tools they could need and then some to handle this. The issue is that the feds seemingly intentionally did nothing to stop or hinder the attack on the capitol. And the sitting president was stoking the domestic terrorism.

    1) no relations to them.  just a long time lurker.

    2) are you suggesting trump has installed his own deep state loyal to him?

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  9. I am not a lawyer, but it seems that a "bright line" was crossed on Tuesday, though it probably was crossed well before.  I just wonder why no one has been talking about it using this term.  And while the inciting the insurrection in itself is enough, can the the many public acts leading Tuesday (pressuring Pence, pressuring state and local officials in Georgia and other states) add to the fact pattern?

  10. Had a situation at Winstar the other night and need some clarification.  Preflop UTG raises to $25.  2 callers follow with folds to the big blind who raises to $95.  UTG goes all-in for $115 not a qualifying raise.  Can the next player raise or is it dead? I thought it was dead since the player had already acted and called the original UTG raise.  Floor was called ruled the other two players could raise since they had not had the opportunity to raise on BB's raise.   

  11. 3 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

    This is a little off.

    No one knows exactly what the prequels are about, but GRRM said his title for the one that’s currently being casted would be the “Long Night,” meaning it’s about the last time the white walkers came south, which is thought to be 4,000 - 8,000 years ago and likely includes Bran the Builder becuase the Wall was built right after the Long Night.

    I dont think this season did any favors for continuing the GRRM universe.

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