https://www.kswo.com/2021/02/16/cold-temperatures-bring-wind-power-halt/

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We are not set up, and will never be, to handle a once in a 100 year cold spell of extended length.

yes

and that is precisely the problem.

not green power.

300 hours of sub freezing temps vs the past record of 83.

I am not trying to blame it on green energy. I am taking exception to your thoughts on it being preventable and due to incompetence.

idk about incompetence, i think its preventable by using a different model for utilities.

the problem is texas though they could save a bunch of money by handing over the utilities to a company without any standards or regulations. and they probably did save some money, but are currently paying the price for that. people are burning there furniture because thats a dumb way to run a utility.

That’s about the size of it. You can plan for bigger outliers than what they did but it substantially raises the cost to everyone, all of the time.

Up until this cold snap, Texas was experiencing what I consider a very mild winter.

It was a 100 year event.

you can prepare for a 100 year event.

Ain't gonna happen.

well, you were looking for the incompetence, and i guess we found it. its right here.

what is the death count up to? 49 last i saw?

Sure. You can also plan for a 200 year event, a 500 year event, 1000 year event, there’s no limit. What’s the correct number?

My God you Texans are getting hammered. I wish I could send some heat down there for you. What can outsiders do to help?

Keep cockerpunk off the thread?

Don't drag me into your little pissing match.

right now folks are ready to burn those mills if they could..
that includes the greens spouting solar farm bs..
gas is going to $ 3 a gallon first time in 7..
SEVEN years..
and will climb onwards..


Rika

i mean, imagine if california only planned for a 100 year earthquake? they would be rebuilding there entire city every 100 years (assuming you got the calculation right), and there would be a lot of dead people. trillions of dollars, and hundreds, possibly thousands of lives because they didnt want to box there frames.

it seems baffling to me that texas is totally like "yes, i could bury my gas and water lines a foot deeper, but id rather save a few bucks and let some poors die every few years instead. not to mention cost everyone thousands of dollars each, totally millions of dollars in damages, because i dont want to dig any deeper.

but i mean thats texas for you. didnt you guys fry developmentally disabled people just a few years ago? not a high regard for human life.

I want to buy a Mrs WD quilt.

Is this the time and place to ask?

Probably better on the quilt thread, just sayin’...

Los Angeles would be decimated after a 100 year earthquake.