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3 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

 

17 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

The thing that will save ERCOT this time is since a big part of this leads with a freezing rain variety ice storm the trees will take care of plenty of load shed for them.

They can blame the ice storm/trees, and also they can say "well, we had plenty of power, but we thought consumers would be better about conserving power, so we didn't issue any warnings.".

 

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24 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

The thing that will save ERCOT this time is since a big part of this leads with a freezing rain variety ice storm the trees will take care of plenty of load shed for them.


perhaps you haven’t heard of cancer causing wind mill generators !!!!!  They just stand around, waiting for the opportunity to make Greg Abbott look bad !!!!

Curtailments & Load sheds.

I believe the PUC Commissioner said it best, "Fucking idiots are walking right into Huffines' trap."

All of you doomsmiths hoping for a grid failure so that your boy Robert Francis can skateboard his way into office can go suck a fat one right next to your mom.

 

Wow

4 minutes ago, Cement said:

All of you doomsmiths hoping for a grid failure so that your boy Robert Francis can skateboard his way into office can go suck a fat one right next to your mom.

 

Doing the bare minimum. You must be proud of hotwheels.

5 minutes ago, Cement said:

All of you doomsmiths hoping for a grid failure so that your boy Robert Francis can skateboard his way into office can go suck a fat one right next to your mom.

 

lmao at trying to claim that "THE POWER GRID DIDN'T COLLAPSE!!" (yet?) as some sort of political win.

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It's fucking 40 degrees in Houston and this idiot is spiking the football over the power grid not collapsing.

5 minutes ago, Cement said:

All of you doomsmiths hoping for a grid failure so that your boy Robert Francis can skateboard his way into office can go suck a fat one right next to your mom.

 

So because they did the absolute least that they possibly could, and we are dealing with a significantly more minor event we should be happy? Until they actually fix the problems we will continue to have to ride the edge every time the weather gets into the 20s. Bang up job

7 minutes ago, Cement said:

All of you doomsmiths hoping for a grid failure so that your boy Robert Francis can skateboard his way into office can go suck a fat one right next to your mom.

 

careful, that skateboard can decapitate someone🙄

4 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

lmao at trying to claim that "THE POWER GRID DIDN'T COLLAPSE!!" (yet?) as some sort of political win.

4 hours ago, Foosters said:

Wow

Doing the bare minimum. 

4 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

It's fucking 40 degrees in Houston and this idiot is spiking the football over the power grid not collapsing.

4 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:

So because they did the absolute least that they possibly could, and we are dealing with a significantly more minor event we should be happy? 

Doing/maintaining the bare minimum is to be celebrated in todays' society and why participation medals are given out.  It's why B's hire C's.

 

4 hours ago, Cement said:

All of you doomsmiths hoping for a grid failure so that your boy Robert Francis can skateboard his way into office can go suck a fat one right next to your mom.

 

You're going to vote for Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick. 

Settle down.

As of noon Thursday, Oncor is reporting roughly 18,500 customers without power statewide, a drop of about 6,000 customers since noon.

The following is a list of local counties with the numbers of customers affected, according to Oncor's outage webpage at 4 p.m.

  • Collin County: 4,658
  • Dallas County: 1,921
  • Denton County: 75
  • Tarrant County: 1,080

Natural gas producers have not done their due diligence:

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2021/10/14/how-the-texas-gas-industry-in-cahoots-with-regulators-created-a-loophole-to-avoid-weatherization/

Republicans and Democrats grilled Wei Wang, executive director of the choo-choo commission, about the slow pace of weatherization improvements. They reminded Wang that winter is only months away.

Wang reminded lawmakers that the law they passed in May allowed the choo-choo people to create rules regarding critical gas infrastructure. As part of that, the railroad commission is proposing a rule that allows natural gas companies an easy opt-out of weatherization. The commission says the $150 fee is set elsewhere in state law and can’t be changed without legislative approval.

State lawmakers acted surprised. They voted for the bill only four months ago.

According to the proposed rule, for only $150, a gas facility can file for an exemption from winterization requirements for a drilling site, a pipeline or a gas collection site.

4 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

It's fucking 40 degrees in Houston and this idiot is spiking the football over the power grid not collapsing.

It has been freezing for literally less than 12 hours.  Not to mention I don't think anyone WANTS the grid to collapse.  These are the dumbest people.  They have zero critical thinking skills and herp and derp through life every day.  Just the absolute dumbest motherfuckers.

13 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

It has been freezing for literally less than 12 hours.  Not to mention I don't think anyone WANTS the grid to collapse.  These are the dumbest people.  They have zero critical thinking skills and herp and derp through life every day.  Just the absolute dumbest motherfuckers.

FYI, what you will not hear is that the wind assets performed very well yesterday, which helped out the reliability.  But of course, NO ONE is going to talk about that.  But that is what happened.

11 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

FYI, what you will not hear is that the wind assets performed very well yesterday, which helped out the reliability.  But of course, NO ONE is going to talk about that.  But that is what happened.

@Judge Roybeanbag is talking about it.

Wow, the most energy rich state in human history only failed 100,000 people during a "winter storm" that had us in the 20's for a half-day.  Truly a fucking miracle.  Every other state performed better than we did with less natural gas.  

14 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Wow, the most energy rich state in human history only failed 100,000 people during a "winter storm" that had us in the 20's for a half-day.  Truly a fucking miracle.  Every other state performed better than we did with less natural gas.  

It’s below freezing and the wind is howling in Maryland today. 9 outages. 
 

You don’t have to have a 2nd world power grid if you don’t want to. 

35 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Wow, the most energy rich state in human history only failed 100,000 people during a "winter storm" that had us in the 20's for a half-day.  Truly a fucking miracle.  Every other state performed better than we did with less natural gas.  

Just like everyone in this thread predicted!

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2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

What was Abbott's motive there?

Donors need a return on that investment 

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Most Texas politicians and citizens:

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1 hour ago, YChang said:

Most Texas politicians and citizens:

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40 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

Beto going to fix his grill and then the grid.  
 

 

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1 minute ago, bolverk said:

Negged for off-topic trolling.

Oh no, a neg! 

On 3/27/2022 at 8:11 PM, 4th&Five said:

 

This is the EDS control room and I remember eating a #5 from Whataburger where that dude is sitting when we were building out the systems for that building.

 

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I'd like to once again extend a hearty FUCK YOU! to ERCOT. It's fucking May and they're telling us to conserve energy. We're getting jobbed and no one seems to want to do anything about it.

3 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

I'd like to once again extend a hearty FUCK YOU! to ERCOT. It's fucking May and they're telling us to conserve energy. We're getting jobbed and no one seems to want to do anything about it.

Dude.  It's 94 deg F outside.  How could ERCOT plan for such an abnormality?

7 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Dude.  It's 94 deg F outside.  How could ERCOT plan for such an abnormality?

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Dude.  It's 94 deg F outside.  How could ERCOT plan for such an abnormality?

Clearly it’s a lack of solar and wind.

Clearly it’s a lack of solar and wind.

The solar and wind installations use too much electricity.

You know that excuse is coming soon.
39 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:


The solar and wind installations use too much electricity.

You know that excuse is coming soon.

One meme I saw this week claimed it costs more energy to make a wind installation than it produces.

25 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

Not to mention windmill cancer. 

Also, they are big polluters and they kill birds...so they say. Evidently, the memo is out right now to hate wind production.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Woland said:

One meme I saw this week claimed it costs more energy to make a wind installation than it produces.

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29 minutes ago, Woland said:

Also, they are big polluters and they kill birds...so they say.

Birds aren't real.

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