Texas trouble

[GOODRUM]

Why would the natural gas stop working when it turned cold like the green side is claiming ?
A legit question,

[chuckChuck]

Ask Ted Cruz and all the Republicans because I am sure its their fault! LOL

[SASKFARMER]

That's Chuck's answer. Wow,


Green doesn't work if mother nature decides to **** with you. IF power was cut to most farms who would survive? For weeks on end.

[GOODRUM]

Just a farmer but I can understand that the windmills have to turn and the panels have to be clean to work, I just don’t know what caused the gas to go down,

[jazz]

Why would the natural gas stop working when it turned cold like the green side is claiming ?
A legit question,

Because wind and solar electricity were used to run compressors. When the temperature went down, most of texas uses electricity heat which everyone cranked up and caused a cascade effect on the system with both electricity and gas heating being shut down.

This is the level of idiocy we are at.

I cant believe a state like Tx went this far woke.

[tweety]

Because wind and solar electricity were used to run compressors. When the temperature went down, most of texas uses electricity heat which everyone cranked up and caused a cascade effect on the system with both electricity and gas heating being shut down.

This is the level of idiocy we are at.

I cant believe a state like Tx went this far woke.

Maybe stop drinking the QAnon KoolAid and switch to a strong cup of coffee. JFC.

It was wellhead freeze offs that caused the problem.

[RTK]

SF3 - let’s do a stress test and see who would survive if we cut the power to a city for a month during the cold snap and to the surrounding farms as well.

Hmmm... I have about 3000 gal of propane on hand, a stock pile of wood, an inverter (2x); and two generators. Could maybe get a large pto one running that grandpa had with some guidance from the electrician. If that is the case I should maybe get some more winter fuel on hand as I only have 750 gal at the moment.

Probably could get the old fuel furnace running that is in an old shed. But I have at least 6 small portable heating units that run on varying forms of energy. Oh yeah I forgot I have two frost fighter heaters - fuel and propane.

No solar panels, no windmills, no unicorns to provide fart power, no fairy dust.... I guess I am screwed. Latte drinking SJW for the win. I can admit defeat...

But... with the near by creek and my trackhoe perhaps this summer there could be some other options for seasonal power generation on a small level if this situation was permanent... Maybe just maybe if I can survive the month of -40 weather somehow in the root cellar with a candle I can be the come back kid and take the win.

[shtferbrains]

Did someone on here not explain that with a reference to adding methanol when it get cold?
Someone else told me the gas is poor quality but they get away with it normaly.
Read in the Guardian it was not only renewables fault
#1 the gas problem # 2 wind froze up #3 coal piles are frozen???
What about that Woodland?
Were they froze up over there?
Big part was no interconnecttion for some profitability reasons?
Texas is not on any type negotiated interconnect.

Sounds like mostly intermittent power is good but the companies were greedy and need more government oversight.
And more mandated green energy.**

[helmsdale]

Yes. Wellhead freeze-offs.

They do not, as far as my limited understanding is concerned, have a sufficiently winterized infrastructure network.

-Lack of above ground insulation for well heads.
-lack of methanol injection.
-even their nuke plants didnt have proper heating/insulation/winterization to keep their cooling and steam systems operational so they scrammed one of the reactors.

[jazz]

Maybe stop drinking the QAnon KoolAid and switch to a strong cup of coffee. JFC.

It was wellhead freeze offs that caused the problem.

Bullshite, texas has under ground caverns just like we do in the event of supply being disrupted. With caverns and the line pack storage a place like Sask can go 3 days in the middle of winter without any new gas into the system.

The gas supply went down immediately as soon as the storm hit. Where was the line pack? Where was the cavern storage? The compressors went off line because of electricity rationing which was caused by 25% of the grid being run by renewables. The same storm hit in 2011 when renewables were only 10% of the grid and nothing happened then.

You need to wake the f up tweety and get some real world experience in something.