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I'm fine with some actual winter weather but I don't want to see anything approaching Winter Storm Uri. I'm not ready for that shitstorm again.
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“I’ll tell you a secret,” he said, “since media is not here.” God had spoken to him throughout Republicans’ weekslong effort to find a new Speaker, Johnson said. Eventually, God revealed to Johnson that he would be a Moses-like figure leading the GOP and the country through a “Red Sea moment.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson just compared himself to Moses (msnbc.com)
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Fingers crossed but I am assuming by statements put out earlier this week that the Council will still pass this phase 1.
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That link to the tax-office was helpful. I was able to find my taxes due vs I can't find them on TCAD.
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2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
So in his first major action, the GOP Speaker effectively led a coalition win mainly supported by the Dems? Great start.
I don’t see much for the Dems to complain about…this week…so far.
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Elon Musk on Buying Twitter and Turning It Into X
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McCarthy spending a lot of time speaking if this vote is going to fail again today.
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The above seems like a way to reduce any incentive to try and "invest" or "flip" housing in Mueller.
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Israel
in Cloak Room
29 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:Question regarding the talk of aid package to Israel. Um, for what?
I understand Ukraine having to fight back against a massively larger aggressor. That makes sense to me. Russia has tanks, you better get some weapons to blow up tanks.
Israel is fighting a much smaller entity and has for decades prepared and known the risk of war on its doorstep. What exactly do they need aid for?This is the thought that keeps coming up when I hear about the House needing to open so it can pass an aid package for Israel. Uh what is the rush to send them aid? The Executive has already signaled broad diplomatic support.
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25 minutes ago, dcar00 said:
yep. nothing about required number or vehicle spaces or anything. these people are morons. they think renters are going to use the bike lanes or rail and not have one car per person. Idiots, the lot of them. They aren't solving any problem with this abject stupidity.
I think you hit 3 spots on the above bingo card with this post.
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8 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:
That's mentioned in this proposal, although evidently single family can already have two units? I think having a tiny home or garage apt. is a great idea. Having three units on the same lot? That sounds awful.
I'm zoned SF-2. As far as I'm aware, I'm limited to 1 unit on the property. I welcome the proposed change. For instance, it could be the house, a garage apt/studio, and an ADU that actually has plumbing. That setup could accommodate an aging parent and a kid in college who needs more privacy than living in the main house.
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I would like to see the multiple unit option move forward. My SF zoning doesn't allow for even a second unit with plumbing. With aging parents, I would like more flexibility to handle possible living arrangements.
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I still have the XR. A better camera is the part that keeps me wondering if I should upgrade. Otherwise, the XR remains functional. I have an Otterbox case and it works fine to wireless charge.
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Do you want fans of marijuana to try and stress/crash the electric grid in Texas so the hard-core GOP can turn around and blame them? Great optics for sure
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I think I will vote against almost all of the Props. Yes to Props 9 and 11.
In general, I don't like the fund creation of some of these Props. If the Legislature wants to fund spending, then let's fund spending. I don't see the upside of creating these funds and then empower small Boards to direct the spending. It seems like less oversight than just having the Legislature be responsible for it.Prop 7 is trash. I'm in industry and it is a $5 billion dollar subsidy to thermal generation developers. Very little is understood in terms of how this plan will integrate into the broader ERCOT market framework. Anybody who votes yes for this and expects to get a good ROI on the investment, doesn't understand the situation.
Many of the other Props appear to be carve outs around the primary tax system of property tax. If property tax has so many negative impacts, let's reform the property tax system. Not create carve outs for this industry and that industry.-
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5 hours ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:
It's pretty obvious this isn't a crypto friendly audience, but I for one am ok with ERCOT/Miner arrangement. The miners flexible demand reponse capability is an extremely rare trait that is huge to the grid as it transitions to more and more renewables.
First, no one is "paying" anyone anything (ie no money is exchanging hands). The miners are getting future credit on energy use. The reason miners are in Texas is because we have huge amounts of renewable energy capacity that often goes unused.
Right now ERCOT has basically said to them (as it does to hundreds of other companies that don't happen to be in crypto), please stop using as much power as you can now and we'll discount you on future power. ERCOT has traded high demand periods now, when it has no excess, for later times when excess power becomes available.
Is it a great deal for miners - absolutely, but it's also a great deal for everyone else.
Do they actually keep energy prices lower? ehh, long term yes as they certainly incentivize more capacity construction now which is more and more renewable. Short term - not as clear, but if the prices rise they use less (or none) anyway as they become unprofitable.
In essence we are basically having the miners themselves pay to add battery like capacity on our grid. Yeah it's not "storage" but the net result is very similar.
TLDR: So you'll buy excess power we have available? And you agree to not use any during high demand if we credit you some of your money back? Deal
Please provide a direct link to how this "future credit" works because the ERCOT settlement protocols say you are 100% wrong.
For specific refence, look at Section 9: Settlement and Billing on this page Current Protocols - Nodal (ercot.com)
If your post was an attempt to create some kind of metaphor, so be it, but acknowledge that. Because it is factually not accurate.
ERCOT has a real time settlement system. The bitminer here contracted an amount of supply for their load. The miner then reduced their load in real time. The ERCOT real time settlement processes look at this imbalance. The imbalance results in the miner have more supply than load. ERCOT then directly pays the miner for this excess energy. It is settled at the interval level. This payment happens on the standard load settlement cycle. Technically the money is going to go to the QSE hosting the miner. However, the miner is the only "customer" in the QSE, so they are going to get all the money. Money is changing hands. The miner can effectively take this money and gamble it in Vegas, have a crazy party in Dubai, they could reinvest in their business, or divest it to owner's of the private company. It is a pure windfall for the miner. The above process is the settlement for the $24.2 million ERCOT is paying Riot for energy sold back.The $7.4 million in demand response credits is a different discussion but it only represents 23% of the $31.7 million reference in this clickbait news story.
All of the above is neither good nor bad. It just is how a very complex set of rules have evolved with the Zonal and now Nodal markets in ERCOT. The miner hit the jackpot. Oh and the miner still has to pay its energy supplier for the supply it contracted for. So, subtract that expense from this new "revenue".-
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its raining in 78757
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1 hour ago, Texzilla58 said:
Joining the either regional grid does no good. The issue for Texas is we haven’t built enough reliable new generation to accommodate the massive influx of folks from other parts. Wind and solar can’t do it on demand; NG used to be top of the demand pyramid for turning them on. Texas needs nuclear, and new oil burners.
Other states don’t gen enough and sick power from others. Fuck California and their time for use bullshit and constant rolling brownouts. They need to build more power plants for themselves. It’s why EV conversion is a stupid scam. The proponents think electricity is free.
50% of the energy fed into the total grid dissipates. That is physics. We need more micro generation, better load management, more regional plants. Texas doesnt need the national grid it needs to go the other way with more subautonomous regional grids that can power themselves.This has to be a troll post.
new oil burners? no one in the US is building new oil burning power plants. They are incredibly cost inefficient based on their fuel cost and their pollution levels are absurd.
Texas is theoretically getting a new nuclear plant. We will see if it actually gets built.
As Brisket stated, Transmission and Distribution losses are nowhere near 50%. Here is a citation for Brisket's posted 5%.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
The 2 areas ERCOT could easily import from are SPP (lots of wind) and MISO. Both of those have reserve margin capacity that ERCOT could import from. In theory, ERCOT could import more from Mexico as well, but that is far more complicated, from a political perspective. CFE (Mexico Electric Utility) already does importing and exporting across the small DC Tie.
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ERCOT has had thermal outages in aggregate at or above modeled expectations for weeks now. Today specifically, wind production is materially lower (but this was seen in the forecast days ago) and its exceptionally hot today. An unfortunate mix.
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2 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:
At least one AISD high school had their AC fail yesterday, on the first day of school. It’s working today. Two years ago they had month long failures in parts of the same building.
Bond money will be paying for a complete upgrade of the HVAC, but they haven’t had time yet to replace it. Thank you to everyone who voted for the last two AISD bonds!My daughter's elementary classroom has no functional A/C. It was expected to be fixed prior to school start but it didn't happen. The portable unit in the room doesn't keep up. Her class has relocated to the school library indefinitely until the A/C is fixed. Oh, and the cafeteria has a massive portable A/C that does work. No idea how many years it will be left in place.
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That is a lot of fancy trucks that never leave payment.
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On 7/6/2023 at 8:06 AM, dieucla98 said:
Cool visual of all the work upcoming at ABIA:
Is there an associated timeline for this?
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3 minutes ago, HonkeyVape said:
No way. That's not a basis in any precedented and codified religion. I think the slippery slope argument won't work here, because it's not just like you go register a spaghetti monster religion or I hate [insert race here] people religion online. It's for legitimate religious practice.
The supreme court quietly (or maybe it was just lost between this and the student loans) ruled in accordance to religious practices but it also made it seem pretty rigid:
From NYT:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/us/politics/supreme-court-religion-sabbath-postal-worker.html
In your opinion, why are some religious practices legitimate and others not? Who is to decide what a legitimate religious practice is? Religion can be any held beliefs, not just your standard fair Christian fundamentalist.
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1 hour ago, Armybrat said:
I notice on the Ercot dashboard that the Bitcoin miners & EV charging are going wild overnight with their power consumption.
Which ERCOT dashboard are you seeing this breakout?
2023-2024 Winter Weather
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Sure ok. To each their own.
Winter storms knocking the Texas power grid offline for days is enraging.