You do know I’m sure that power plants are not allowed to operate at full capacity without special permission, which they had to get from the Dept. of Energy in this particular case.Originally Posted by Guisslapp
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You do know I’m sure that power plants are not allowed to operate at full capacity without special permission, which they had to get from the Dept. of Energy in this particular case.
I know! and he probably seeks shelter when it starts raining too. At least he has enough sense to get out of the rain.
As for this particular weather event, I am curious what you think a senator can do. I am open to see your list of do-now tasks that would have a positive impact.
5 ERCOT board members don’t live in Texas, one from Canada
https://www.kxan.com/investigations/...e-from-canada/
I am not against fossil fuels so you are barking up the wrong tree. Doesn’t change the fact that natural gas failed us this time.
But, wind turbines don’t need fossil fuels for heat. They can use the electricity they generate.
In Texas our natural gas, coal and nuclear power plants shut down because they froze.
They froze because they are not winterized.
They are not winterized because that costs money, and our regulations in Texas do not encourage reliability.
If you want to see a scuzzbucket just look in the mirror.
You are confused. Me and you see different people in the mirror. I won’t see you if I look in my mirror.
I knew you were stupid, but I thought you would at least know how a mirror works.
BS! Have you not seen the latest pics of fossil fuels not only warming them but being poured on the blades and tops of these windmills by fossil fuel run helicopters to de-ice them?
To quote your favorite politico and who you voted for Sleepy Joe Biden.
“Come on man!”
You are barking up the wrong tree. I think we need lots of types of energy. And that means hydrocarbons are going to play a smaller roll going forward as a percentage of the total energy supply.
Why didn’t Texas energy producers winterize their plants?
Same reason they don’t stock up on snow/ice removal equipment
That is a valid point. Not cost effective for places in the South to invest in snow plows. But, maybe providing basic winterization procedures makes sense on energy infrastructure.
People died and this is going to be a bigger property damage event than Harvey because they didn’t winterize. These type of winter storms are foreseeable.
Cost vs benefit. For public utilities in normal states a certain amount of reliability in exchange for the monopoly. In Texas we believe in Wild West utility race-to-the-bottom capitalism.
Will be interesting to see what happens to those that get outrageous electricity bills because they were wittingly or unwittingly on market rate plans. Could see this bankrupting some businesses.
The leftist using loss of life as an argument. You people are amazingly arrogant. Consider the fact that loss of life came from Carbon Monoxide poisoning, not freezing to death
Does it matter? House fires and CO positioning always happen when cities lose power in the winter. There will also be some that loss of electricity impacted their medical equipment.
Probably half the homes will have pipe damage because dripping the faucets wasn’t enough when you didn’t have any internal heat.
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