After 45 Hours With No Electricity, Some Top Takeaways From The Texas Blackouts

[rangerrebew]

February 23, 2021
After 45 Hours With No Electricity, Some Top Takeaways From The Texas Blackouts
 

The electric grid is our biggest, most important, and most complex network.

The Texas Blackouts are a stark reminder that the electrical grid is our greatest, most essential, and …

• most complicated community. As a society, we ignore its strategic significance, resilience and reliability at our excessive peril. One other level: photo voltaic is nice when it is sunny, however throughout the blackout our 8.5 kilowatt photo voltaic system was basically ineffective for practically every week. This photograph was taken on February 19, 2021, at about 8:30 am.

Robert Bryce

The post-mortem of final week’s near-collapse of the Texas electrical grid will probably be grotesque. The Texas Blackouts had been the results of a number of complicated and interrelated elements. The ultimate price of the blackouts will probably be measured in tens of billions of {dollars} and the blizzard of finger-pointing, litigation, and bankruptcies will final for years to return.

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[Fishrrman]

Pertinent points:
Texas narrowly averted a complete grid meltdown and the societal mayhem that will have adopted.

It was loopy chilly for a very long time.

Our photo voltaic panels had been nugatory for practically every week.

Electrifying every thing is a recipe for catastrophe.

In a blizzard, nuclear reactors are actually helpful.

Lastly, after all, wind vitality deserves blame.

[XenaLee]

One thing has been made glaringly clear.

You couldn't count on ""Government"" before the Biden globalist's election theft....

and you sure as HELL can't count on it now....

to do anything but FUBAR things up even further/moreso.

Reality sucks

[Elderberry]

I was also out of 120/240 60hz power for more than 45 hrs adding up the 2 outages I went thru. But I didn't run out of electricity. I had batteries. And I used batteries to recharge other batteries. Thru my outages I solely maintained with battery power. And propane for cooking.

[roamer_1]

I was also out of 120/240 60hz power for more than 45 hrs adding up the 2 outages I went thru. But I didn't run out of electricity. I had batteries. And I used batteries to recharge other batteries. Thru my outages I solely maintained with battery power. And propane for cooking.

I am *JUST* starting down that path... LiRON batts alone will cause you to gasp at the price.

[Sled Dog]

Other things to consider:

Government regulations, ostensibly present to protect the consumer...do not.  Government regulations caused the problem.

It was government tax subsidies that paid for those windmills.    When will the taxpayer see a refund?

Nuclear and coal are the most reliable electric power sources in existence, and are amazingly safe, especially for birds and old people who don't want to freeze to death in the dark.

Gaia hates us and resents any effort we make to be nice to Her.   Be safer to pet Hillary.

Why did the natural gas fail in Texas when it never fails in NY, where it actually has a winter and gets cold?

How many houses are going to be re-built to accept wood-burning stoves this summer?

As a New York boy who's had my share of -25 deg F days in winter, I have to laugh at this Texas thing.   

Can we cause physical harm to the clowns claiming this little thing in Texas was caused by global "warming" now?   

What are we allowed to do to the people who want to reduce the amount of greenhouse WARMING gases in the atmosphere?

I'll be living in Southern CA past the next election.  You guys in the Red States get your act together to have secure and honest (that means only GOP wins) elections before I retire so I don't have to worry about this crap when I emigrate to the United States, okay?

[thackney]

Other things to consider:

Government regulations, ostensibly present to protect the consumer...do not.  Government regulations caused the problem.

It was government tax subsidies that paid for those windmills.    When will the taxpayer see a refund?

Nuclear and coal are the most reliable electric power sources in existence, and are amazingly safe, especially for birds and old people who don't want to freeze to death in the dark.

Gaia hates us and resents any effort we make to be nice to Her.   Be safer to pet Hillary.

Why did the natural gas fail in Texas when it never fails in NY, where it actually has a winter and gets cold?

How many houses are going to be re-built to accept wood-burning stoves this summer?

As a New York boy who's had my share of -25 deg F days in winter, I have to laugh at this Texas thing.   

Can we cause physical harm to the clowns claiming this little thing in Texas was caused by global "warming" now?   

What are we allowed to do to the people who want to reduce the amount of greenhouse WARMING gases in the atmosphere?

I'll be living in Southern CA past the next election.  You guys in the Red States get your act together to have secure and honest (that means only GOP wins) elections before I retire so I don't have to worry about this crap when I emigrate to the United States, okay?

Coal dropped of about 30% last week.  Nuclear shutdown about 20%.

Maybe New York can experience most of a week this summer 30°~40° above normal and see how well y'all handle that.  Maybe we can laugh at that.

This Texan has lived in Alaska and other places of weather extreme.  Your normal has limits as well.  Everyplace is not design for every weather extreme possible.

[Victoria33]

I am *JUST* starting down that path... LiRON batts alone will cause you to gasp at the price.

@roamer_1
@Elderberry

Elderberry said: "I was also out of 120/240 60hz power for more than 45 hrs adding up the 2 outages I went thru. But I didn't run out of electricity. I had batteries. And I used batteries to recharge other batteries. Thru my outages I solely maintained with battery power. And propane for cooking."

Good for you Elder.  I have enough excellent rechargeable batteries (can recharge 1,500 times each), to last a year and a solar panel to recharge the batteries, phones, pads, etc.  I set up my house to be comfortable using batteries because a generator runs out of fuel rather fast if you do not have fuel. 

And, I have enough cans of "canned heat" and two stoves for them to warm/cook food for a year inside the house.

[roamer_1]

@roamer_1
@Elderberry

Elderberry said: "I was also out of 120/240 60hz power for more than 45 hrs adding up the 2 outages I went thru. But I didn't run out of electricity. I had batteries. And I used batteries to recharge other batteries. Thru my outages I solely maintained with battery power. And propane for cooking."

Good for you Elder.  I have enough excellent rechargeable batteries (can recharge 1,500 times each), to last a year and a solar panel to recharge the batteries, phones, pads, etc.  I set up my house to be comfortable using batteries because a generator runs out of fuel rather fast if you do not have fuel. 

And, I have enough cans of "canned heat" and two stoves for them to warm/cook food for a year inside the house.

I was talking about large batteries @Victoria33 ... The sort of thing to use to store solar.
Four big car type sized batteries and four, maybe six solar panels.... Kinda trying to ease into solar for five grand or so, and then do it again in four years, and again again in four years.

That way, as it starts to fail, theoretically it will fail in sections rather than spending the whole 15k right off the get-go, and having it all fail at once fifteen years from now...