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29 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

You act as though we've had electricity for decades.

Oh.

Electricity is a PRIVILEGE. 

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Ahh yea just stack those heat stroke death bodies over there.

Here?

No that's by the Covid deaths, not there over there.

Oh here?

Yes

What's this stack I'm putting them by?

That's the hypothermia and exposure deaths, we want to line those all up together...weather related ya know.  

Ahh got it

Keep it neat and orderly now.  

1 hour ago, Surly Bevo said:

Ahh yea just stack those heat stroke death bodies over there.

Here?

No that's by the Covid deaths, not there over there.

Oh here?

Yes

What's this stack I'm putting them by?

That's the hypothermia and exposure deaths, we want to line those all up together...weather related ya know.  

Ahh got it

Keep it neat and orderly now.  

Winter storms only killed ~200 folks, I'm sure the hottest summer on record (if the hype is accurate) won't strain our grid at all amirite?

2 hours ago, Captainant said:

I'm sure the hottest summer on record (if the hype is accurate)

It's the hottest summer on record every fucking year (yes - I'm being hyperbolic - but still). Just another thing that these morons should anticipate and prepare for that they likely don't.

"I mean, what are the odds it will ever be THAT hot again?"

Fast forward a year...

"Well alright fellas - we had the hottest September EVER but that's never going to happen again, right?"

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31 minutes ago, ztejas said:

It's the hottest summer on record every fucking year (yes - I'm being hyperbolic - but still). Just another thing that these morons should anticipate and prepare for that they likely don't.

"I mean, what are the odds it will ever be THAT hot again?"

Fast forward a year...

"Well alright fellas - we had the hottest September EVER but that's never going to happen again, right?"

Notably, it'll be the hottest summer since 2011 - which was also the last year the grid was put into a critical state by extreme weather. And we didn't implement those mitigations to improve the grid back then and it didn't end in dead Texans or anything, so this summer should be just peachy

I have a bad feeling about this summer. Definitely planning on getting the fuck out out here at a moment’s notice if need be. The snow storm was one thing. 100+ with no power will really suck.

Also curious if the grid has changed since the last storm. People that kept power may not next time if things have been reclassified as essential etc

1 hour ago, Updawg said:

I have a bad feeling about this summer. Definitely planning on getting the fuck out out here at a moment’s notice if need be. The snow storm was one thing. 100+ with no power will really suck.

I mean, we’re all screwed right?  I guess I should look into a generator, although I’m sure they are price gouging us already. I am not in a position (literally, my house faces the wrong way) for solar. God dammit. 

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also, even if I had a massive generator, I just want the A/C to work and I have no idea how I would even attempt to get power to the A/C

50 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

also, even if I had a massive generator, I just want the A/C to work and I have no idea how I would even attempt to get power to the A/C

You can probably get some kind of cooling unit that sits inside the house - run an extension cord out to the generator, and run your fridge and that little cooler off of that.

We are liable to turn into fucking Iraq or some other 3rd world country, where we have intermittent power throughout the day.

The people running the show are going to fuck around and find out if they aren't prepared for this summer. 2022 is around the corner, and people still haven't forgotten that little winter storm we had.

10 hours ago, ztejas said:

I love being told to make changes in my day-to-day life because higher-ups either can't do their job properly or are refusing to try. 

I’m used to it because I’ve had a job. 

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

You can probably get some kind of cooling unit that sits inside the house - run an extension cord out to the generator, and run your fridge and that little cooler off of that.

We are liable to turn into fucking Iraq or some other 3rd world country, where we have intermittent power throughout the day.

The people running the show are going to fuck around and find out if they aren't prepared for this summer. 2022 is around the corner, and people still haven't forgotten that little winter storm we had.

I'm kicking myself for not remembering the story from my brother, Mr. Robert Earl Keen:

Paraphrased - "there were these 20 Mexicans sitting around drinking Schlitz beer...and I thought, "man, I haven't had a Schlitz beer since elementary school."  And he said, "wait it gets better!  There was one of those long, orange extension cords that came out of the house, it was plugged into the house somewhere, one of those really long ones, and it came out of the house and out into the yard and up onto a table and it was plugged into a window unit air conditioner..."  This does not happen in Tennessee.

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10 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

Get ready. They are already preparing for this summer:

 

So yesterday.

 

11 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

Get ready. They are already preparing for this summer:

 

Your bill is also about to start going up to pay for their losses during the storm due to lack of prior planning/winterization. 

Well, at least we'll be able to legally shoot our way out of the hot weather.  

I’d rather have no federal oversight of my power grid than have electricity

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8 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

 

If only we could have seen this coming. Like if there was a pattern they could plan for in advance.

You’d think those windmills would have thawed by now. 

46 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

 

Somebody's gonna have to go back and get a shitload of windmills!

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2 minutes ago, Cajun said:

Somebody's gonna have to go back and get a shitload of windmills!

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Of course, the bulk of the generation offline right now is....thermal.  So, you know.....not wind.

No incentive to build peaking generation, none is built.  Inherent peril of an "energy only" market.  Predicted, and predictable.  For the 100th time, this is the market working exactly as designed.

Fuck ercot and fuck hot wheels. Welcome to California except with a shittier power grid. 

11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Of course, the bulk of the generation offline right now is....thermal.  So, you know.....not wind.

No incentive to build peaking generation, none is built.  Inherent peril of an "energy only" market.  Predicted, and predictable.  For the 100th time, this is the market working exactly as designed.

I really just wanted to get some slim pickens/Blazing Saddles into this thread and couldn't figure an angle on a #6.

I had this for lunch and could probably solve some of our energy issues right now if somone's got a clothespin and the machinery to harness the potential -

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I plan on supplementing my income by using my gasoline powered generator to charge up my neighbors' Teslas.

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It's just through Friday at the earliest, so it's not too terrible.  Well, June could see record electrical use.

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Good thing we aren't encouraging people to move in to Texas at record rates, and a good thing that we don't brag about how we're such an amazing producer of energy.

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1 minute ago, 4th&Five said:

 

Oh... can't wait to hear which source Abbott et al will blame this week on Fox. 

This is fucking amazing.  It's the middle of fucking June. We haven't even had a string of 100 degree days yet.

 

30 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

Can we somehow harvest the energy from the corpses of ercot and the lege? Asking for science purposes

 

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1 hour ago, Cajun said:

I really just wanted to get some slim pickens/Blazing Saddles into this thread and couldn't figure an angle on a #6.

I had this for lunch and could probably solve some of our energy issues right now if somone's got a clothespin and the machinery to harness the potential -

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We’re asked to conserve electricity, not water and toilet paper.  Flush away mi amigo.

 

 

Just now, Shaggy3.0 said:

We’re asked to conserve electricity, not water and toilet paper.  Flush away mi amigo.

 

 

Trust me, there's another element produced not requiring either one of those resources.

This fucking sucks. A white girl rage! Lol. But ERCOT can get bent. 

What a clusterfuck.  We should be able to negotiate a fixed price contract with utilities that we only pay them if they provide x days/months of uninterrupted service (excluding local outages due to transformers, rogue squirrels etc).  

Maybe between this crap and our little fiasco in February, it will help cause a few dozen people in California to reconsider moving here.

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18 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Maybe between this crap and our little fiasco in February, it will help cause a few dozen people in California to reconsider moving here.

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Or maybe they will move here and force the incumbent incompetents out. 

Does this mean we should put the blankets back on the windows?

 

They deserve pitchforks and torches if they can’t keep up with the load, but the email did remind me to make my afternoon round through the house to turn off all the fucking lights because I’m the only one in the house capable or qualified to do it. I wonder how much is of our electrical shortage is due to our wives and kids?

49 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

What a clusterfuck.  We should be able to negotiate a fixed price contract with utilities that we only pay them if they provide x days/months of uninterrupted service (excluding local outages due to transformers, rogue squirrels etc).  

Now now now, we can't go putting service level agreements on critical utilities! That would be BUSINESS KILLING REGULATION RAHRBAGHLGLGLG

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