ICE v Electric: Cost and Emissions

Tjf1967 said:
Texas is going to be fine. Was NJ morons after Hurricane Sandy? Shit happens
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and shit can be prevented easily. This is nothing like Sandy. This is not about downed wires.

This has to do with the generation (natural gas, coal, nuke plants, and wind turbines) being shut down due to cold and not having extra capacity because they are not connected to the rest of the US. These cold weather fixes are standard across the rest of the US. How come NM, OK, Ark, La, Miss are not having the same issues? El Paso Electric (in El Paso, Tx) has had zero disruptions because they are not part of the Texas ISO. These cold weather issues happened on a smaller scale in Texas in 2011 and 2014 and they did nothing.
 
x10003q said:
These cold weather issues happened on a smaller scale in Texas in 2011 and 2014 and they did nothing.
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OUCH!! I guess they should've taken notice. You're saying this was easily preventable by either connecting into the rest of the US grid, or the heating of their generators, etc?
 
x10003q said:
and shit can be prevented easily. This is nothing like Sandy. This is not about downed wires.

This has to do with the generation (natural gas, coal, nuke plants, and wind turbines) being shut down due to cold and not having extra capacity because they are not connected to the rest of the US. These cold weather fixes are standard across the rest of the US. How come NM, OK, Ark, La, Miss are not having the same issues? El Paso Electric (in El Paso, Tx) has had zero disruptions because they are not part of the Texas ISO. These cold weather issues happened on a smaller scale in Texas in 2011 and 2014 and they did nothing.
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They decided the costs outweighed the risk? Easily prevented? So your saying they could not have beefed up the wires to withstand Sandy. They could have. They chose not it.
I do believe LA and Miss had the same problem.
 
Campgottagopee said:
OUCH!! I guess they should've taken notice. You're saying this was easily preventable by either connecting into the rest of the US grid, or the heating of their generators, etc?
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Yes. The major issue in Texas is not enough power. The smaller issue is downed wires. This is why they keep rotating the power on and off, they do not have enough power. In this case, if they were connected to the US grid, people who are have been subject to the rolling blackouts would be fully on already.
 
x10003q said:
Texas has plenty of fuel.
They are where they are because those in power did not want to follow Federal rules about power supply stability and reliability.

The people who made these choices are morons in the pockets of the electric generator companies.
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Is this a sequel to Enron, another Texas sh!tstorm?
 
Tjf1967 said:
They decided the costs outweighed the risk? Easily prevented? So your saying they could not have beefed up the wires to withstand Sandy. They could have. They chose not it.
I do believe LA and Miss had the same problem.
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You cannot beef up wires, you can only bury them.
Texas does not have enough power generation right now - that means they still have rolling blackouts. La and Miss have plenty of power supply and do not have rolling blackouts, they have downed wire issues only. Texas does not have enough power and, on a smaller scale, downed wires.
 
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