You know it's funny.

Internal combustion engines have a history of working perfectly and failing spectacularly in both extreme heat and extreme cold when you fail to run coolant or anti freeze.

TX ignored the anti freeze.

Funny, most of the low temps that I've seen bandied about for Texas are also from 1899.

Clearly that was a crappy year for those folks back then.

Because he is not in Washington advocating for Federal help for his constituents?

Oh wait, he doesn't need to.

The current admin already took care of it for him.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/02/14/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-texas-emergency-declaration/

Yep

Texas was told that c'c'c'coold temperatures are feature of a time past.

Any who accepted that as truth would make the logical decision that the turbine blades need no de-ice feature (blade heaters).

And now we have the the green-ninnies (grinnies?) getting the parrot talking point that "Wind Turbine are not stopped by snow and ice!" when the truth is that only SOME (properly optioned) Wind Turbine are not stopped by snow and ice. --but the ones in TX were/are stopped by snow and ice.

Joe got to it early so the news cycle may have missed it.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/02/14/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-texas-emergency-declaration/

I think maybe you're mistaken about that. Got a source to back it up?

My sales next week will.

It probably has zero real impact - that is why I called it a display of douchebaggery. Unfortunately that is typical of the people we put in power over us.

I think he is simply pointing to the lack of the blade-heater option on the TX wind farm equipment.

Why would they opt for that. Everybody knows that the earth is burning up doncha know... :rolleyes:

Year 2000 a Brit Climate scientist told us that in just a few years (with melted ice caps and all) that any snow will be a rare event, and children will have to learn about snow in the classroom.

And... 2021 and every county in TX has snow. ...the whole country pretty much white.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1613670765.JPG

Then why ***** about it? Sensible people don't ***** about things that have no bearing on the problem.

Frankly, your comments say more about you than Cruz.

It sounded to me more like he was blaming the loss of natural gas production on internal combustion engines not having antifreeze in them.

I will allow that some energy plants in Texas are built differently than elsewhere, to maximize what they can produce in hot weather, when the electric demand is higher.

Yeah, all the frozen equipment.

There are pockets across TX, along the borders, where municipalities are part of the regulated public grid and not TX's unregulated private grid.

They all stayed up.

You can have gas lines freeze, no question, but I doubt the root cause is someone failing to put antifreeze in the coolant of some engine. A running engine needs no antifreeze, anyway.

It is always amusing how your primary function here is to piss and moan about what other members post.

Well Ronnie, if you didn't piss on so many things, I'd probably not comment on it.

Actually, this was part of the problem.

Yes demand for electricity is higher in the summer and those plants burn gas to generate it.

Homes are heated with gas in the winter so gas usage spikes.

It's not an issue for the electrical generating plants because the demand for their product is lower so it offsets.

Then you have what we had this week.

Demand for homes, which is given preference by ERCOT, spiked and the gas plants froze reducing capacity significantly at a time when both markets, residential and producers, needed more.

It was a domino effect.

It was an analogy, not a literal explanation.

Thought that would be obvious.

So did Bush, two days before Katrina hit.

https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/bushs-katrina-wasnt-bushs-katrina

Joe was in Camp David, playing video games when this all started.

ICEGHAZZ!!!

I am poking fun, Sports Fans. I think the whole "Presidents need to rally the troops" is complete bravo sierra: Send federal aid, stay out of the way.

Best to all in Texas. Ice storms are a complete menace, the only weather related even that grinds my farm to a halt.

yup, cause they decided to privatize there power grid to maximize profits, rather than build a more expensive and reliable power grid. you know, like how public utilities work.

Cruz headed back to Texas now, so I guess he thinks that optics matter.