-8c in texas ...thats gotta be a marketing topic?

[Austrian Economics]

In less than a month, farmers along the gulf coast will be wanting to plant corn. Things had better warm up by then or we'll see seeding delays.

[WiltonRanch]

When do they graze wheat pastures in Oklahoma and Texas? This cold must be buggering that too.

[jazz]

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/14/historic-winter-storm-freezes-texas-wind-turbines-hampering-electric-generation/4483230001/ Green jobs flying copters to de-ice windmill blades.

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[Toast]

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/14/historic-winter-storm-freezes-texas-wind-turbines-hampering-electric-generation/4483230001/ Green jobs flying copters to de-ice windmill blades.

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No worries, Copters run on environmentally acceptable unicorn farts.

[furrowtickler]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-winter-storm-power-outage-snow-temperatures

And how will the power grid handle millions of EV’s on top of this , or mid summer heat ?

[dmlfarmer]

Jazz: How is this de - icing a wind turbine blade any different than needing graders/cats to come in to plow snow to access working gas and oil wells to enable operators to do regular well checks, for service rigs to swab wells, and for dewatering trucks to haul out water? Do you also disagree with pipeline companies using helicopters/aircraft to check pipelines on a regular basis?

[WiltonRanch]

Another thread derailed.

[malleefarmer]

ABARES forecast Australia’s wheat production +120% over last yr to 33.3MMT to a new record. USDA will likely need to revise their production forecast higher in the next WASDE IMO.

Fair increase hey.

Think this could be raised again but maybe only to 33.5 to 33.7 on farm stocks always rubbery, to low in good years to high in poor years.

Shit loads of wheat hasnt hit the market yet people hoping for higher prices.

[jazz]

Jazz: How is this de - icing a wind turbine blade any different than needing graders/cats to come in to plow snow to access working gas and oil wells to enable operators to do regular well checks, for service rigs to swab wells, and for dewatering trucks to haul out water? Do you also disagree with pipeline companies using helicopters/aircraft to check pipelines on a regular basis?

dml, please cite the time where 1000 oil wells went down due to weather, or the oil sands stopped production because of weather or the line pack in the natural gas network was lost or oil in tankage was zero? Thats the proper analogy.

Any idea how long it would take to de-ice thousands of windmills? What is taking up the slack while they do that?

[farming101]

ABARES forecast Australia’s wheat production +120% over last yr to 33.3MMT to a new record. USDA will likely need to revise their production forecast higher in the next WASDE IMO.

Fair increase hey.

Think this could be raised again but maybe only to 33.5 to 33.7 on farm stocks always rubbery, to low in good years to high in poor years.

Shit loads of wheat hasnt hit the market yet people hoping for higher prices.

Once in a lifetime bumper crop?

[farming101]

dml, please cite the time where 1000 oil wells went down due to weather, or the oil sands stopped production because of weather or the line pack in the natural gas network was lost or oil in tankage was zero? Thats the proper analogy.

Any idea how long it would take to de-ice thousands of windmills? What is taking up the slack while they do that?

Rolling blackouts are working well so far

[Toast]

Any idea how long it would take to de-ice thousands of windmills? What is taking up the slack while they do that?

Which brings another question. How does that centipede pee that is going on those blades, then on the ground, affect the crop that will be growing in that area the following year(s).
Is someone going to condemn and call it polluted and force that land idle ? Hope not.

[dmlfarmer]

dml, please cite the time where 1000 oil wells went down due to weather, or the oil sands stopped production because of weather or the line pack in the natural gas network was lost or oil in tankage was zero? Thats the proper analogy.

Any idea how long it would take to de-ice thousands of windmills? What is taking up the slack while they do that?

Interestingly the largest refinery in the US is shut down because of the cold weather. I bet that refinery handles more than the production of 1000 wells. An oil well is not much use if you cannot refine the product.
"The nation’s largest oil refinery shut down because of the brutal weather. Motiva said it shut down the Port Arthur, Texas, refinery because of “unprecedented” freezing conditions along the Gulf Coast." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/02/15/winter-storm-texas-power-outages-south-ice-snow/4487366001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/02/15/winter-storm-texas-power-outages-south-ice-snow/4487366001/

And I wonder how much of the power outages are due to downed lines from ice and trees, which will likely take a whole lot longer to repair than for the ice to melt off the turbines considering the ice will melt on its own as soon as the weather warms above freezing which will happen soon in Texas unlike here. Do you remember the ice storm in eastern Canada where power was off for weeks? How about Oklahoma last November when 40,000 homes were still without power 10 days after an ice storm due to downed lines.

And to speed up the nnatural deicing, we have the technology; just like we use graders/cats to plow snow to maintain and service wells. In fact we are very good at de icing airfoils It is done at all major airports in Canada and northern US daily to thousands of planes.

Manpower and equipment is used to maintain and service all types of energy production systems including fossil fuels. More importantly, no system is perfect and severe weather can impact every type of energy production and delivery system.

[malleefarmer]

Once in a lifetime bumper crop?

26 to 28 often.

But run of three droughts in nsw.

Would have been bigger WA had below average year.

I know you guys disagree with me at t8mes but theres alot of wheatin the world and ours isnt 20% shipped and the rough figure is 40% to 45% sold.

Domestic sales always unknown

Sorry for interrupting yet another Climate Change Renewable thread.

[flea beetle]

Russia and Ukraine need cash, they'll dump wheat to get it.

Canada's wheat market has many major buyers, not just one.

Countries have been starving for decades, and it has never had much of an effect on the wheat market anyways. That's a dead horse Bucket. Besides counties with money are the ones buying wheat anyways.

Isn't Russia putting another $25/ton US export tax on wheat starting march 1st? That in itself is 88 cents/bushel canadian. Not to mention the market bump that will bring.