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Anonymous wrote:Now some areas here in North Texas are told they have to boil their water as it is unsafe. But with no power? Many are putting out pots to gather snow. This may go on until Sunday.

Thats doable with gas. If you live in a disaster prone area, you should have supplies to deal with that. There are other water treatment options that don't require boiling.

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Wonderful that it didn't even cross my mind!

Anonymous wrote:Now some areas here in North Texas are told they have to boil their water as it is unsafe. But with no power? Many are putting out pots to gather snow. This may go on until Sunday.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure what to think. My husband works 25 miles away so he packed up a weeks worth of food and clothes. Please do not make a joke of this. The GOP idiots have not kept up our infrastructure. We can handle 100 degrees but not zero. This is scary. I’m worried about power and I have four greyhounds here.

There are wind turbines throughout the midwest in Iowa and Indiana, Ohio..... and those don't freeze. Why did the ones in Texas freeze?

I am curious as to why you did not mention the coal and gas fired plants that also froze?

I haven’t checked the data but someone I trust told me this weather system is a 3.9 sigma event for Texas. I’d be surprised is windmills in the north are resilient to an equine Lang event, but perhaps they are.

narrator: they are

Somehow, turbines in the upper midwest and on ridges in PA and MD that routinely experience sub-zero temperatures, don't have these issues. Science and all.

Link?

In the 2019 polar vortex windmills throughout the Midwest and the Prairie states shut down due to extreme cold and actually became a net drag on the system as turbines needed electricity for heating to avoid damage to the turbines.

I don’t have time to look at the data, but I know that even weatherized wind turbines don’t operate below -20. Please provide a link that shows turbines in the Midwest and Prairie States still operate during a 3.9 sigma weather event.

So I live in Minnesota and was here for the “polar vortex” of 2019 (right now seems as bad, FWIW). I’m trying to nose around Xcel Energy to see if they what percentage of my energy comes from wind vs solar since the weather right now seems comparable. If there’s a wind farm in the arctic circle, you can bet they should work in the continental US.

No, you can’t make that bet. Nothing is ever that simple. For example, down here in Texas we get mocked for not having salt on our frozen highways and instead Texas DoT use sand. But it turns out that we have to use a special mix of concrete to deal with the Texas summer heat. That concrete is particularly susceptible to damage from salt. If we were to salt our highways we would have to rebuild them a week later. But your typical northerner who moves here always lectures about using salt on the highways during winter freezes. Point being that nothing is ever as simple as it appears.

My uneducated guess is that those arctic windmills are over engineered to deal with extreme cold but they are not a cost effective or viable alternative for commercial use at scale.

We do know that weatherized windmills in the north shut down during the 2019 polar vortex. So this isn’t just a Texas problem.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Texas wanted to secede? Why should we care?

Only a drew weirdos bring that up every couple of years. Most of us here in Texas are normal.

If that were true, Ted Cruz wouldn’t be your senator. But alas he is.

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STOP POINTING FINGERS. ALL AMERICANS ARE TO BLAME FOR NOT ACKNOWLEDGING CLIMATE CHANGE SOONER, UNLIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD.

California, long Democrat-led, has suffered terribly from climate-change-related weather extremes. What's happening in Texas is another weather extreme that will become more frequent with our changing climate triggered by man.

It's not a Dem vs. Rep thing, even though Republicans are more likely to deny climate change than Democrats.

It's that we need a comprehensive, federal, effort to reduce pollution and strengthen our infrastructure so we can all withstand FLOODS, TORNADOES, HIGH WINDS, HIGH HEAT, and BITTER COLD.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for politicizing this.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Texas wanted to secede? Why should we care?

Only a drew weirdos bring that up every couple of years. Most of us here in Texas are normal.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure what to think. My husband works 25 miles away so he packed up a weeks worth of food and clothes. Please do not make a joke of this. The GOP idiots have not kept up our infrastructure. We can handle 100 degrees but not zero. This is scary. I’m worried about power and I have four greyhounds here.

There are wind turbines throughout the midwest in Iowa and Indiana, Ohio..... and those don't freeze. Why did the ones in Texas freeze?

I am curious as to why you did not mention the coal and gas fired plants that also froze?

I haven’t checked the data but someone I trust told me this weather system is a 3.9 sigma event for Texas. I’d be surprised is windmills in the north are resilient to an equine Lang event, but perhaps they are.

narrator: they are

Somehow, turbines in the upper midwest and on ridges in PA and MD that routinely experience sub-zero temperatures, don't have these issues. Science and all.

Link?

In the 2019 polar vortex windmills throughout the Midwest and the Prairie states shut down due to extreme cold and actually became a net drag on the system as turbines needed electricity for heating to avoid damage to the turbines.

I don’t have time to look at the data, but I know that even weatherized wind turbines don’t operate below -20. Please provide a link that shows turbines in the Midwest and Prairie States still operate during a 3.9 sigma weather event.

So I live in Minnesota and was here for the “polar vortex” of 2019 (right now seems as bad, FWIW). I’m trying to nose around Xcel Energy to see if they what percentage of my energy comes from wind vs solar since the weather right now seems comparable. If there’s a wind farm in the arctic circle, you can bet they should work in the continental US.

No, you can’t make that bet. Nothing is ever that simple. For example, down here in Texas we get mocked for not having salt on our frozen highways and instead Texas DoT use sand. But it turns out that we have to use a special mix of concrete to deal with the Texas summer heat. That concrete is particularly susceptible to damage from salt. If we were to salt our highways we would have to rebuild them a week later. But your typical northerner who moves here always lectures about using salt on the highways during winter freezes. Point being that nothing is ever as simple as it appears.

My uneducated guess is that those arctic windmills are over engineered to deal with extreme cold but they are not a cost effective or viable alternative for commercial use at scale.

We do know that weatherized windmills in the north shut down during the 2019 polar vortex. So this isn’t just a Texas problem.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for politicizing this.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for politicizing this.

Did you say the same to Cruz when he did not support help for NY after the hurricane?

Don't you also think it's rather ironic that many Rs in TX want to secede?

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for politicizing this.

Anonymous wrote:How long until TX asks for an energy bail out?

If they did want to join the federally-managed system, who would shoulder the costs?