it’s hilarious that Texas Republicans want to secede when TX is only relevant because of its Democratic cities...their incompetence was on full display this past week
I'm happier right now actually. Everything that happens from a chief executive via common sense instead of spite or grievance brings a smile to my face. I hope we never take it for granted again.
We've been through 4 years of an executive who never let anything go. Pointing out the current contrast to the style of divisive governing is a celebration rather than a clinging to of bitterness.
Big kudos to James. If things ever get back to "normal" and I'm in Houston, I'll make a point of eating there.
Why is it that we can fly a helicopter on Mars, but we can't turn a light on in Texas? Because the Mars mission is run by scientists. And Texas is run by Republicans. DD
Curious how they determined what counties qualify. For example Williamson does, Blanco does, but Burnet and Llano don't?
Sure but it's uterrly insane that we did have a president who would tell a state that is in immense distress with people dying to "rake leaves" and actually make sending aid a contraversy. Don't know why you are offended that it's brought up. It's pretty crazy we were at that place once.
This thread goes into some new details in the "grid" system... summary: 20kMW of gas and coal was already offline before the cold snap for regular yearly maintenance. Only a fraction of it came back when forecast shown the need for them. IOW, margin was razor thin or just inadequate (my interpretation). [perhaps, these guys shouldn't ALL go down at the same time of the year but spread it out more!] On the 15th between 12am-3am, 11.2kMW of gas (8k), coal (2k), nukes (1.2k) went offline b/c of frozen gas pipelines and water for steam (used to turn turbines that generate energy). TX grid IS connected to Mexico and OK but less than 1kMW worth. ERCOT only option was to "disconnect grandma" since the other option is whole system failing and it would take months to get back to normal. Outages (rolling bandtage) wasn't spread out because of uniformed systems (distribution weakness and strength throughout system). IOW, the system was NEVER designed for proper rolling blackout (my interpretation). https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362626074622877696.html
Trump woulda coulda shoulda was a response to that poster going on about Trump. Silly you. His traitors that were all part of his coup are still running Texas. Sad, but true. They aided and abetted his madness. Now we have to live with them and their power over people way of running things. By the way, you might want to tell that to Margorie Taylor Greene. She still calls Republicans Trump's party. Then again, she is as crazy in the head as that despicable man she idolizes.
Must be approved by ERCOT to go down and normally Feb is when the need for electricity is the least in TX, so 20kMW was approved (that seems very large). And these generators prefer to go down in Feb when electricity cost is the least (less profit). This points to two big problems here, I think - ERCOT doesn't have a hefty reserve margin and the "free" market drives less reliability.
