Rolling blackouts

[Budman68]

I'm guessing they are still air conditioning all those empty downtown towers also.

[c3products20]

Were sitting on one of the best power storage locations in all of the continental US. It's called the Permian Basin!!!! Drill baby drill!!!

[awry]

Pedernales Electric stating “animal interference” for Leander outage ...

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/pedernales-electric-customers-experience-outages-tuesday-afternoon/

[Txhunter3000]

Where do you find that information?

http://www.ercot.com/

[Man]

I am sure it is. But the point is, how have we, as humans, not figured this out yet??? The second electricity was discovered, we should have been figuring out how to store it.

aside from the battery?

[tps7742]

Pedernales Electric stating “animal interference” for Leander outage ...

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/pede...day-afternoon/

Where I use to work on occasion a cat or raccoon would find a hole to get inside our electric transformer stations and trip everything associated with that substation out.

[Briar Friar]

Glad I ordered that dual fuel generator.

I got to wondering yesterday as I was moving some tposts that had been sitting in the sun…****…these things have alot of energy stored….aka they were hotter than the redheaded scorpio thst took my virginity. “Why cant we throw a bumch on metal in the ground…allow the sun to do its thing to heat them up…then reuse that heat for powering stuff…as opposed to using salts in some solar systems... day and night.

There should be 1-2 nuclear reactors in every major Texas city. Houston gets 2. DFW gets 4. San Antonio gets 2. Austin gets hippie farts. Texas only has 4 reactors total. We should have a minimum of 8 reactors.

[Death from Above]

aside from the battery?

Lol….i couldnt get there either

[Buff]

As a fellow that has worked in the coal mines my whole life, I think it is funny.
They have shut down mines and power plants all over the state. I hope Austin and Dallas go without power all summer

[DK1555]

I thought we had plenty of generation and carrying capacity? In the icepocalypse they said the issue was because the powerplants where shutting down due to not being built to withstand freezing temperatures. Are they freezing again?

[wellingtontx]

As a fellow that has worked in the coal mines my whole life, I think it is funny.
They have shut down mines and power plants all over the state. I hope Austin and Dallas go without power all summer

Do you really think that Joe Blow the Average Citizen closed the coal mines and plants ?

The guy sitting without electricity really had very little to do with those decisions - maybe he voted once or twice - but he hardly was the decision maker.

I guess I blame the politicians who allowed it to happen - those are the folks that need to be run out on a rail and left in the heat.

[Evictor]

The fun stars when the hackers or terrorists figure out how to knock the grid down.

[RattlesnakeDan]

Can you say C H I N A.

https://www.newswars.com/chinese-communists-profit-millions-from-texas-governor-abbotts-green-new-deal/

[WItoTX]

aside from the battery?

Then why do we not have battery banks everywhere? We have them for critical infrastructure, but even those only last days, at best.

Batteries, at least as they sit now, do not solve the fact that there is basically no way to store power.

[STX_Shooter]

Im just stopping by to read all the “wind mill” comments…