Texas power grid almost reached capacity yesterday due to heat !

[lonestardiver]

Here in N.E.San Antonio, we loose power just about every time we get rain.
I think they are using masking tape to connect the wires.

Masking tape or the cheap electrical tape from Harbor Freight.

 

[Younggun]

Well, I'm very sorry you are not capable of understanding it then.

Excellent response. Whoever, it doesn’t change the fact that you are completely ignorant of the subject you are discussing.

The fact that you are channeling your anger towards Abbott when the root cause is at the federal level shows just how ignorant you are. Federal interference has driven up the cost of planning, building, and operating gas power plants while subsidies to unreliable sources allow them to undercut reliable energy sources.

And it gets worse when factoring the roadblocks in place for clean nuclear power.

All in all, you are barking up the wrong tree in the worst way, and doubling down only makes you look more foolish.

 

[Eastexasrick]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yes!

 

[glenbo]

He's consistent.

 

[Coiled]

Would it please you if they put a little generator on Abbotts's chair so he could help out when he has time?

HAHAHA HAHAHA

Thanks man !

 

[2ManyGuns]

We just need more electric cars.... that will solve the problem.

Yep, we will run them in reverse to add power to the grid!

 

[TreyG-20]

Damn I love a good lynch mobbing! Y'all could have let me know to bring my pitch fork.

 

[Rhino]

I will say that being on the aerial photography end of things, I think we failed to plan over the last 10 years to compensate for the vast amounts of new construction in some places, and I'm tired of giving subsidies to people who already want to move here. Instead, they should be the ones helping fund the power needed to sustain the growth.

To me, that is a GOP failure to foresee the oncoming train wreck.

There are a significant amount of new solar and wind facilities still being built, but I still think we're behind the curve.

 

[Wiliamr]

Excellent response. Whoever, it doesn’t change the fact that you are completely ignorant of the subject you are discussing.

The fact that you are channeling your anger towards Abbott when the root cause is at the federal level shows just how ignorant you are. Federal interference has driven up the cost of planning, building, and operating gas power plants while subsidies to unreliable sources allow them to undercut reliable energy sources.

And it gets worse when factoring the roadblocks in place for clean nuclear power.

All in all, you are barking up the wrong tree in the worst way, and doubling down only makes you look more foolish.

Correct. And now, that socialist Greg Casar is introducing legislation to force Texas to link in with the national power grids. The Federal government closed down at least three electrical generation plants in Texas in the last twenty years. They refuse to allow nuclear plants to be built. The Fed has been pushing solar and wind generation, but neither is reliable. solar is only during the day and when not clouded up. Wind, is hit or miss, west Texas does have fairly regular winds, but the transmission of that electricity requires huge power transmission stations, amazing electrical transformers and lines to get that electricity to where it is needed.

It is not Abbott's job to make electrical transmission happen. We do not want government running the show. That is the kind of stupidity that has gotten this county into the mess it is in now. Government should not be involved in making electricity plants. That is the purview of PRIVATE business.

 

[TXAZ]

I hope the other Electrical Engineers on TGT are enjoying this “intellectual” discussion as much as I am.
It reminds me of a famous paraphrase “If competence is a virtue, you must be a whor*”.

 

[Eastexasrick]

I hope the other Electrical Engineers on TGT are enjoying this “intellectual” discussion as much as I am.
It reminds me of a famous paraphrase “If competence is a virtue, you must be a whor*”.

Now we will tackle why gravity is a residual effect of the strong nuclear force, but only in the realm of a Grand Unified Theory.

 

[Vaquero]

Abbott should be working with energy providers and the legislature to come up with a plan to solve this problem long term. If no new power can be developed then the legislature should pass laws that restrict the construction of new buildings that will require additional energy to power, heat and cool.

Every day I see huge new commercial buildings and massive apartment complex that are under construction and those all will increase energy demand. There should be no permits issued for these things until the energy problem is solved.

When is the last time more government solved a problem it created?

 

[smittyb]

I hope the other Electrical Engineers on TGT are enjoying this “intellectual” discussion as much as I am.
It reminds me of a famous paraphrase “If competence is a virtue, you must be a whor*”.

Do we have to be engineers to enjoy it?

 

[smittyb]

When is the last time more government solved a problem it created?

Oh, I know this one!!

 

[Vaquero]

Yea, cause all you lektrical enganears must really be smart !

Actually, they are.

 

[TXAZ]

Do we have to be engineers to enjoy it?

Not at all!

It’s always been amazing to me how sometimes people assume they understand a very complex system then try to explain it, yet haven't a clue how it actually works.

 

[TXAZ]

Now we will tackle why gravity is a residual effect of the strong nuclear force, but only in the realm of a Grand Unified Theory.

Agree. Symposium at the next Axxe wing ding?

 

[smittyb]

FWIW, Tuesday I will be commissioning and bringing a new 134MW solar field onto the ERCOT grid.
Maybe that will help a tiny bit.

 

[Vaquero]

FWIW, Tuesday I will be commissioning and bringing a new 134MW solar field onto the ERCOT grid.
Maybe that will help a tiny bit.

Peak demand and peak generation coincide. .

 

[smittyb]

Peak demand and peak generation coincide. .

Ideally