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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4270 on: February 17, 2021, 09:23:22 AM »
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4271 on: February 17, 2021, 10:38:54 AM »
I think "we" could address adding more CO2 to the air, in the US anyway, but only with nuclear, and then whatever addon one can get from W&S.

It's the only thing that would make a difference fast enough.  Innovation is great but unpredictable.  Carbon capture looks like a losing concept to me.  Entropy and all that.

W&S may be fine but it's not happening nearly fast enough and the supply is intermittent.

The Texas debacle is not solely due to W&S though.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4272 on: February 17, 2021, 10:45:50 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on February 17, 2021, 10:38:54 AM
I think "we" could address adding more CO2 to the air, in the US anyway, but only with nuclear, and then whatever addon one can get from W&S.

It's the only thing that would make a difference fast enough.  Innovation is great but unpredictable.  Carbon capture looks like a losing concept to me.  Entropy and all that.

W&S may be fine but it's not happening nearly fast enough and the supply is intermittent.

The Texas debacle is not solely due to W&S though.
Thats correct


what bothers us Texans is not that we lost power due to a freak storm but the fact we cant restore power

and they cant even tell us when it will be restored

the public is being kept in the dark on this

lots of real mad Texans right now
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4273 on: February 17, 2021, 11:19:12 AM »
The Texans can simply shoot up all of the windmills and solar panels with their vast arsenal of firearms. 

Then they will have no choice but to return to fossil fuels. O0
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4274 on: February 17, 2021, 11:24:28 AM »
One reactor at a nuke plant tripped and went off line, apparently weather related.

Some NG plants had problems with instruments and the cold.

A coal fired plant had issues.

The story here isn't going to comport to what either side wants to believe.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4275 on: February 17, 2021, 11:32:45 AM »


Yeah, but that's just a bunch of egghead stuff. 

It is all about leveraging public perception among the unwashed masses here. :098:
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4276 on: February 17, 2021, 11:53:25 AM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on February 17, 2021, 11:32:45 AM

Yeah, but that's just a bunch of egghead stuff.

It is all about leveraging public perception among the unwashed masses here. :098:
We have closed 5 coal powered plants in the last few years

Hopefully the state leaders will fix this

right now wind and solar only account for 14% of our power generation so thats not the whole problem

another problem is the Texas power grid is a stand alone grid not connected to any other grid in the country

which means we are unable to borrow excess power from another grid

all this needs to be looked at and solutions arrived at

Texas has a track record of solving its problems and this will be solved also
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4277 on: February 17, 2021, 02:01:39 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on February 17, 2021, 09:10:49 AM
Gonna be 81 here today. Yesterday was a chilly 72.
It got above freezing for the first time in almost a week, this morning.  It was 33 for a couple hours.  Now it's down to 28 and that's about as good as it's going to get.

Everybody should move to Florida.
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« Reply #4278 on: February 18, 2021, 09:28:11 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on February 17, 2021, 02:01:39 PM
It got above freezing for the first time in almost a week, this morning.  It was 33 for a couple hours.  Now it's down to 28 and that's about as good as it's going to get.

Everybody should move to Florida.
Seems like everyone IS moving here, based on all the new construction.

Last year at this time, there were 50+ houses available in our development. Now there are 3, and they will probably be gone in a matter of days.
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« Reply #4279 on: February 18, 2021, 01:12:19 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on February 18, 2021, 09:28:11 AM
Seems like everyone IS moving here, based on all the new construction.

Last year at this time, there were 50+ houses available in our development. Now there are 3, and they will probably be gone in a matter of days.
I just bought the last one.  I'll be your neighbor by the end of next week.
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« Reply #4280 on: February 18, 2021, 02:06:32 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on February 18, 2021, 01:12:19 PM
I just bought the last one.  I'll be your neighbor by the end of next week.
now if we could just get a couple million more to do that
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4281 on: February 18, 2021, 02:45:42 PM »
I don't see any Texas plates here. I see California, New York, New Jersey and Illinois quite a lot. I hope they don't screw us up.
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4282 on: February 18, 2021, 04:10:23 PM »
Texas should have succeeded when they had their chance 
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Re: Weather, Climate, and Environment
« Reply #4283 on: February 18, 2021, 04:11:29 PM »
Florida too.
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