Thread: OT, somewhat. Who else is currently under rolling blackouts?

Originally Posted by EmanuelGoldstein

Or heat ..... what was that about California's failed energy policy, Ted ?

Sorry congressman Ted is in Cancun with his family and is currently an asshole unavailable to flip you the finger as he is busy doing exactly that to all his constituents. Republitard, don't cha know...

Originally Posted by gustafson

“Wind accounts for just 10 percent of the power in Texas generated during the winter. And the loss of power to the grid caused by shutdowns of thermal power plants, primarily those relying on natural gas, dwarfed the dent caused by frozen wind turbines, by a factor of five or six,” The Post reported. “At a moment when the world is awash in surplus natural gas, much of it from Texas wells, the state’s power-generating operators were unable to turn that gas into electricity to meet that demand.

the dry gas is all headed north

wet gas is the prolem

meanwhile the coal plants are picking up the load

you will really hear some bitching when when they shut the dry gas off

Originally Posted by Richard Winn

the dry gas is all headed north.

Only if it is even collectible at all. Not worth enough of late to justify build investment of facilities to even collect, process, and concentrate rather a lot of it not all that long ago:

They can'''t give it away: Texas natural gas at all-time negative lows | Reuters

Disclosure: "many" shares. EQT (hence ETRN as "well") CVX, and 40-odd years "long".

Been HARD to remain "long" last five year what with about a 125 large in paper losses .. And dividends down... or even outright suspended.

Originally Posted by Richard Winn

the dry gas is all headed north

wet gas is the prolem

meanwhile the coal plants are picking up the load

you will really hear some bitching when when they shut the dry gas off

Going With the Flow: Changes in the Directional Flow of Natural Gas Due to Increased Shale Gas Supply May Lead to Increased Fuel Charges for Pipeline Customers | Energy Interdependency Blog

From the linked:
"The Paradigm Shift to Bi-Directional Gas Flows: The increased supply of natural gas in the North, generated largely through fracking in the Marcellus Shale, has led to more and more gas entering pipelines from the North. On certain pipelines, like Texas Eastern, this results in gas actually flowing both downstream and upstream. What historically was a backhaul transaction to send gas upstream from north to south through displacement, is now a true reverse-flow transaction in some cases. The question then arises – what, if any, fuel charges should pipelines now assess for upstream gas transportation?"

the electric prolem here is because the northern supply contracts take

precedence to the contracts for the combined cycle plants

might be changing due to the governor

the supply prolem is lack of methanol at the well heads (jit bs)

dehy plants are fine

My citation is a year-plus old, Doug's over seven years. Lot has happened. More needs to happen as to freezing to death in the time of surplus.

Really BAD time to have a functional IDIOT merely warming the resolute chair in the Wyde Howz for a more ACTIVE suicide-kit a-waiting her own stupid-pill ration to reach critical mass.

I don't give two shits what their "party" wants.

They are simply as predictably USELESS as split compression lockwashers on cephalopods.

Exactly as they were CHOSEN to be.

Can't be bothered to compete with America?

No sweat. Just hire it f**ked up badly... and go around a circus act off on a side-road, all tires flat, hair and panties all afire.

Again.

Originally Posted by thermite

Really BAD time to have a functional IDIOT merely warming the resolute chair in the Wyde Howz

What he should maybe be taking a vacation? In Cancun? Why don't you go there, steal a podium, and leave him a note about it?

Originally Posted by 4GSR

....We like sitting in the recliner with our 870 and Glock at hand waiting for any unusual noise in the dark! ...

My wife heard some unusual noises in the dark after a recent snowstorm here, while I was away on travel. Turns out it was our neighbors, shoveling
our driveway out by hand. Good luck shooting at the snow.

Originally Posted by thermite

Really BAD time to have a functional IDIOT merely warming the resolute chair in the Wyde Howz for a more ACTIVE suicide-kit a-waiting her own stupid-pill ration to reach critical mass.

I don't give two shits what their "party" wants.

They are simply as predictably USELESS as split compression lockwashers on cephalopods.

You really are a piece of work. Biden has been president for almost one month. The Republicans have controlled Texas for decades. They ignored federal warnings about weaknesses in their electric grid after a major freeze in 1989, same thing in 2011, and most likely they will ignore it again after this one in 2021. Must be because of the windmills.

Yeah, it's all Joe Biden's fault.

Lol. Funny how that works, manny. Trump was evil BEFORE he ever took office and every day thereafter. Every possible ill was blamed on him. Guess what? Now it's Beijing Biden's turn. Karma's a ....well, you know, the thing!

And don't try making it a party issue...Republicans have their share of criminals also. Maybe someday you'll get why Trump was as good as he was - he belonged to no party. But what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander so bend over and take your Biden humiliation right where Hunter would put it.

And uh, the Texas grid is standing on its own, because Texas wanted it that way so they could do it their way, without interference from the Feds. Plenty of management benefits to that, but it also means they get very little help from the Feds or their neighbors in the event of an emergency, like this storm.

Originally Posted by Trueturning

I have never seen anyone better at that job than him. From Texas and serving as Governor served him well knowing about energy. Maybe you might have wished that Perry had won president instead. Maybe next time.

Go ask any Texan right now how they think their energy policy is doing. Like I said, I don't know it perry had anything to do with removing most of Texas from the national grid but if he did he probably isn't getting good reviews from the people who are without power now.

As to perry being president, he most likely would have been preferable to our last dismal failure of a president.

Originally Posted by thermite

Probably "warm" because you manged to get the local's blood boiling?

But never mind. It takes a while to get a woodchipper serviced and ready to process protein for the hogs.

You escaped. THAT time..

Better lu

We don't parade around with Biden hats and t-shirts and bumper stickers and flags and and and like the trump cult people do. So they have no idea what our political affiliation.

Originally Posted by thermite

"Happy" making excuses, swapping lies, and gushing over each other's "alleged-virtue" signalling, so as to keep their fake-news and Feudal Corporate overlords on-side as to controlling what hateful spew works to see to it the LESSER-ranked idiots are properly entertained.

So as to secure the mentally lazy zombie vote, dead or alive?
By post. If not pallets full of ballots for Beijing-joe Buyed-in.

At least the Roman mobs actually GOT bread with their circuses.

Now all the poor fools get is overdrawn warehouse receipts for empty promises NOT EVEN funded by "Other People's Money".

What's the best recipe for cooking a downed statue of Columbus or George Washington, anyway?

Do they need to burn a police station or a department store all at ONCE to BBQ pulled pork out of a helpless elder citizen?

Or can the culture cannibals make each one last for several meals?
Seattle - hardly their WORST - is "circling the drain?" Wait until the poor dumb bastids discover the OUTLET of the drain dumps into Metro NYC, South Shitcargo, or Washington, Dead Cee.

Thought they'd earned a balmy holiday in Hell to kick back, relax, and molten-lava surf?

Not without passing through purgatory ass-first, and DRY, they have not!



And the Devil bought another round for Darwin's Ghost.

Because he OWED him for the surplus! Just like the theory. Arrival of the witless.

Another dose of word salad or word soup or some other crazy thing. I've never seen anyone butcher the English language like you do. Did you learn how to talk like that in the 1,500's?

Texas's independent grid goes back to the time when the grid(s) were just forming, long before any current politicos were involved.

The causes of the current problem will take a good deal of analysis, however claims that it was all due to "frozen wind turbines" or nothing to do with "frozen wind turbines" are both false. Of the generation capacity that has been down and causing the issue, it is roughly 1/3 wind and 2/3 other that is down, both are significant.

Related to the subject of energy, here in Massachusetts Bruce Ismay, the Governor's undersecretary for climate change recently resigned after being called out for saying the state needs to “break their will” and “turn the screws on” ordinary people to force changes in their consumption of heating fuels and gasoline.

He also said that homeowners, motorists and fishermen need to prepare for hard times coming under state's push for net-zero emissions in the coming years.

GOOD RIDDANCE to this elitist prick!

Embattled Massachusetts climate official David Ismay resigns 'immediately'

Interestingly, he holds the exact same name as the elitist prick who forced the Titanic to sail at reckless speed through an ice field and then escaped in a lifeboat meant for women and children.

Originally Posted by Big B

We don't parade around with Biden hats and t-shirts and bumper stickers and flags and and and like the trump cult people do. So they have no idea what our political affiliation.

Difference between pride and openness vs clinging to a substandard "leader:" while pretending to be "middle of the road".

Originally Posted by thermite

My citation is a year-plus old, Doug's over seven years. Lot has happened. More needs to happen as to freezing to death in the time of surplus.

Really BAD time to have a functional IDIOT merely warming the resolute chair in the Wyde Howz for a more ACTIVE suicide-kit a-waiting her own stupid-pill ration to reach critical mass.

I don't give two shits what their "party" wants.

They are simply as predictably USELESS as split compression lockwashers on cephalopods.

Exactly as they were CHOSEN to be.

Can't be bothered to compete with America?

No sweat. Just hire it f**ked up badly... and go around a circus act off on a side-road, all tires flat, hair and panties all afire.

Again.

I tried to understand your post and it looks like you are taking another shot at Biden. What did he do? Got to Cancun with Texas senator cruz? Gotta love cruz. See you assholes later. I'm outa here. Typical of how republicans run their show.

Originally Posted by GregSY

Lol. Funny how that works, manny. Trump was evil BEFORE he ever took office and every day thereafter. Every possible ill was blamed on him. Guess what? Now it's Beijing Biden's turn. Karma's a ....well, you know, the thing!

And don't try making it a party issue...Republicans have their share of criminals also. Maybe someday you'll get why Trump was as good as he was - he belonged to no party. But what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander so bend over and take your Biden humiliation right where Hunter would put it.

If you are in a cult you can only see your leader as the best of everything. Please seek mental help. People have left cults before and you can too if you really want to.

Originally Posted by Scottl

Difference between pride and openness vs clinging to a substandard "leader:" while pretending to be "middle of the road".

The main difference is we don't feel a need to attend massive rallies and wear a bunch of chinese made cult stuff. I have voted for republicans before and may do so in the future but not for anyone like trump. He's a criminal who should be locked up or executed for crimes against the state.