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Climate Change -- conspiracy theory or is it time we all drive a Prius?
February 16th, 2021 at 7:28:40 PM permalink | |
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4470 |
One of the reports I read yesterday said cell towers were going down. Running out of fuel and natural gas lines are having problems too for those on gas generators. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
February 16th, 2021 at 8:20:15 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | I was at Harrah's in Laughlin a few years back when the power went out. Standing at a crap table and waiting for a payout [on a place 8] and it went dark in there, but they had back up gens, those ran out of fuel after ten minutes. Lucky they even came up, I doubt whether they test run them any more often than Fukushima? The dealers splayed themselves out over the chips so no one grabbed any, at least they were trained to look out after the house. /s The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
February 17th, 2021 at 2:36:39 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
That is big as gas lines are usually the last thing to fail. The President is a fink. |
February 17th, 2021 at 4:56:32 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5055 | I know people with wood stoves. I'd show up, with some wood, if I thought I was going to freeze. After draining my pipes. I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
February 17th, 2021 at 11:45:36 AM permalink | |
JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 971 |
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/ Turns out Texas is getting more capacity from wind than what they expected in their winter emergency plan. The primary problem is surge in demand at the same time as massive failure of coal, gas and nuclear power plant equipment including pumps and pipelines to deliver natural gas. Yes, all of the above could have been winterized. Seems like more than half the houses in the Austin area are without power and now people are beginning to lose water. Cell service has been great. Data is a little slow because so many people are using mobile hot spots to connect. The forecast for Saturday is 70 degrees so it will soon melt away. But who knows how long it will take for everything to get sorted out and back to normal. The mind hungers for that on which it feeds. |
February 17th, 2021 at 11:57:14 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 |
Winterizing would have been labeled a tax scam by conservatives in the state. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
February 17th, 2021 at 12:07:11 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | I wanted to see if there were any articles that dared to say wind power isn't all it's cracked up to be during sales pitches. Every link I clicked went directly to dozens of pages shedding blame off of wind power like water from a ducks back. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
February 17th, 2021 at 1:00:01 PM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | Power knocked offline: Wind/Solar 18,000 MW Coal/gas/Nuclear 28,000 MW "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
February 17th, 2021 at 1:08:52 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
What do utilities have to do with taxes? The President is a fink. |
February 17th, 2021 at 1:22:48 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | Apples and oranges The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |