Texas Power Blackout Deception

[Dusty Britches]

I thought this was an interesting video from Clear Energy Alliance on what led up to the failures last week.

Texas Blackout Deception
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[Brazos Hunter]

I thought this was an interesting video from Clear Energy Alliance on what led up to the failures last week.

Texas Blackout Deception
Texas Blackout Deception - YouTube

Spot on lady!


Micheal

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[sqiggy]

The 2 units where I work (lignite fired) went down. These are 2 750 units but capable of putting out almost 900 megawatts at full load. I was off shift during the storm but what I found out was fuel was the reason our units went down. It was a chain of events that started the failure. For starters, the train coming from the mine, not sure what happened here, but it dumped the whole load of lignite on the tracks. So, they started pushing off the pile. With wet coal and sub temps, you had large froze chunks, which caused plugging on the chutes. With only 2 feeders feeding from the pile, they could not keep up with the units. And when they did get the plug chutes cleared, the bigger chunks started breaking belts. With no fuel they had to bring the units down. After that, everything went down hill. Freezing lines and busted pipes. Heaters that were put in place started to fail and not of enough of working heaters to cover everything.
It’s still a freaking mess out here now!!!

[Brazos Hunter]

The 2 units where I work (lignite fired) went down. These are 2 750 units but capable of putting out almost 900 megawatts at full load. I was off shift during the storm but what I found out was fuel was the reason our units went down. It was a chain of events that started the failure. For starters, the train coming from the mine, not sure what happened here, but it dumped the whole load of lignite on the tracks. So, they started pushing off the pile. With wet coal and sub temps, you had large froze chunks, which caused plugging on the chutes. With only 2 feeders feeding from the pile, they could not keep up with the units. And when they did get the plug chutes cleared, the bigger chunks started breaking belts. With no fuel they had to bring the units down. After that, everything went down hill. Freezing lines and busted pipes. Heaters that were put in place started to fail and not of enough of working heaters to cover everything.
It’s still a freaking mess out here now!!!

Our units stayed online but were choked back due to low gas pressure supply. Other entities killed power to natural gas flow gates causing a mell of a hess! Oh, and I was on shift both for this event and Feb 2, 2011. In my book that is two too many to work.


Micheal

[Killer]

Good info explained well

[roberts]

Very informative.

[Drycreek3189]

After hearing and reading different views on this it’s my opinion that everything failed to some degree for one simple reason. NOBODY was ready for the temps we experienced. I’m not a fan of wind or solar and I’ve worked in the oilfield all of my life, but I don’t know if 100% natural gas would have been perfect under those conditions. I do think it would have been better, but I can’t see wind and solar ever being more reliable than coal and gas. Just my opinion.

[RiverRat1]

Lets see what our pro-wind/alt energy guys come on here and say. Ought to be good.

[Brazos Hunter]

The cleanest, most reliable, and most cost effective is actually nuclear but most do not want to jump through the hoops to add a nuclear unit plus neighborhoods don’t want a reactor next door. They still need startup power but one well equipped fossil fuel unit strategically placed could handle the job for a couple.

Public misconception and believing flat out lies told to them by THEIR representatives will prevent true reliability from becoming a reality.



Micheal

[Trinity Outfitters]

Really well don. Thanks for sharing. We need to keep spreading this truth.

[EarleyBird]

After hearing and reading different views on this it’s my opinion that everything failed to some degree for one simple reason. NOBODY was ready for the temps we experienced. I’m not a fan of wind or solar and I’ve worked in the oilfield all of my life, but I don’t know if 100% natural gas would have been perfect under those conditions. I do think it would have been better, but I can’t see wind and solar ever being more reliable than coal and gas. Just my opinion.

This, it was a once-in-a-long-while cold storm that nobody was really prepared for. But those wind turbines did lay down when the game was on the line.

[OldRiverRat]

After hearing and reading different views on this it’s my opinion that everything failed to some degree for one simple reason. NOBODY was ready for the temps we experienced. I’m not a fan of wind or solar and I’ve worked in the oilfield all of my life, but I don’t know if 100% natural gas would have been perfect under those conditions. I do think it would have been better, but I can’t see wind and solar ever being more reliable than coal and gas. Just my opinion.

Even with natural gas you have compressor issues which is why we lost a lot of flow during the storm.
It’s a massive failure on so many levels.
The reports we got to today chronicling everything that went down is staggering. Hearing $3 plus / gal has is coming very quick
Exxon and Lyondele having major issues starting the refineries up.



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[Hogmauler]

Sqiggy did y’all ever fish in the lignite mine off of 244 ? It’s a beautiful lake now. I saw one of the largest buck of my life right by Hilltop cemetery on 244.