Texans Balls Are Frozen?

[Redneck]

Hows it going Tex?

Are you balls frozen off yet?

Is this correct?

Anyway hope you and yours are all OK ! Cheers Red

[Black Orchid]

From what I've read there isn't one National Power Grid and hasn't been since 1975. There's the eastern grid, the western grid and the Texas grid.

Pelosi's refusal to discuss a power sharing project a few years back put paid to any sharing between Texas and the western grid. Good old Nanny. Can always count on those Dems when people are dying.

[Redneck]

From what I've read there isn't one National Power Grid and hasn't been since 1975. There's the eastern grid, the western grid and the Texas grid.

Pelosi's refusal to discuss a power sharing project a few years back put paid to any sharing between Texas and the western grid. Good old Nanny. Can always count on those Dems when people are dying.

Got a link to that Pelosi bit?

[Black Orchid]

Not right now I'll look later. I know you like memes but I don't have one of those either

Tex would know more than anyone.

[Redneck]

Not right now I'll look later. I know you like memes but I don't have one of those either

Tex would know more than anyone.

Fair enough! Fair bit of history of it here!

https://www.texastribune.org/2011/02/08 ... ower-grid/

[Nom De Plume]

Not right now I'll look later. I know you like memes but I don't have one of those either

Tex would know more than anyone.

Fair enough! Fair bit of history of it here!

https://www.texastribune.org/2011/02/08 ... ower-grid/

So nothing to do with Pelosi and every thing to do with deregulated power companies failing to meet their contractual obligations to the consumer.

[Texan]

I've always been happy with a separate grid. It has served us well until this freak cold snap. We even sometimes sell excess power to California at inflated prices to cover the EPA fees.

Our problem this go around is that the cold weather froze our wind turbines. They make close to 20% of our power. That left us in a bind and nobody else was in a position to help us. My power has only gone off 3 times for a total of 3 hours. Some areas had transformers explode or ice take down trees over power lines. Some of my friends went 2 days without power in this cold.

[Redneck]

I've always been happy with a separate grid. It has served us well until this freak cold snap. We even sometimes sell excess power to California at inflated prices to cover the EPA fees.

Our problem this go around is that the cold weather froze our wind turbines. They make close to 20% of our power. That left us in a bind and nobody else was in a position to help us. My power has only gone off 3 times for a total of 3 hours. Some areas had transformers explode or ice take down trees over power lines. Some of my friends went 2 days without power in this cold.

That is a bit disputed

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-56085733

So when critics pointed to a loss of nearly half of Texas's wind-energy capacity as a result of frozen turbines, they failed to point out double that amount was being lost from gas and other non-renewable supplies such as coal and nuclear.

[Neferti]

No, frozen wind turbines aren’t the main culprit for Texas’ power outages

From The Texas Tribune.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16 ... es-frozen/

[Texan]

No, frozen wind turbines aren’t the main culprit for Texas’ power outages

From The Texas Tribune.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16 ... es-frozen/

I'm a big fan of wind power. I knew there were also natural gas problems. I just didn't know the extent of it. Either way, the cold killed our energy production because ERCOT was caught with their pants down.