1/3 of Texas is without power right now...

[casa_mugrienta]

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Low of 9 in Austin...Low of 16 in Houston...not getting warmer til Wednesday.

This isn't gonna be good....except for funeral homes, plumbers, tow trucks and auto body shops.

 

[Surfdog]

Fire up the solar panels and windmills.

They'll be fine.

 

[_____]

Hilldo is safe

 

[92122]

My buddy outside of Portland has been without power for days now. Claiming they might not get it back on until Friday..??..They‘re calling it a historic ice storm.

 

[Your Moms Dildo]

Damn you global warming!...Damn you to heeeellllll!

 

[grapedrink]

A tsunami of techies, bitcoin mining and Joe Rogan broadcasts/downloads are crushing the grid and interwebz

 

[Surfdog]

Batteries will save us.

Except in sub-freezing temps.

 

[Woke AF]

 

[Surfdog]

Throw an extra blanket on your Tesla tonight.

It may not start in the AM if you don't.

Oh wait, you have to charge it first.

Never mind.

 

[Duffy LaCoronilla]

Fire up the solar panels and windmills.

They'll be fine.

This is precisely why they are out of power. Frozen windmills.

This is an example of why I keep saying it is impossible to meet our energy needs with wind and solar.

And guess how they unfreeze the windmills...go on, take a guess!

 

[Surfdog]

This is precisely why they are out of power. Frozen windmills.

This is an example of why I keep saying it is impossible to meet our energy needs with wind and solar.

And guess how they unfreeze the windmills...go on, take a guess!

I saw a video.

Battery powered drones with little squirt hoses of water (warmed I would guess by some fossil fueled heat source).

Hope they keep those drones charged 24/7.

 

[Your Moms Dildo]

WGAF?

It's Texas!

kill'em all and let god sort'em out.

 

[Autoprax]

I bet those people who GTFO'd of CA and moved to Texas are laughing now

 

[manbearpig]

This is precisely why they are out of power. Frozen windmills.

This is an example of why I keep saying it is impossible to meet our energy needs with wind and solar.

And guess how they unfreeze the windmills...go on, take a guess!

 

[Surfdog]

EV's lose up to 40% of their range in sub-freezing temps.

More likely in sub-zero temps, but loss of range is real.

 

[Aruka]

damn slurpdog, did an electric car bang your wife or something?

according to this article: " Most of the power knocked offline came from thermal sources, Woodfin said, particularly natural gas."

I'm sure it has nothing to do with Texas's grid which is deregulated and largely disconnected from other states...

What went wrong with the Texas power grid?

Millions of Texans were without heat and electricity Monday as snow, ice and frigid...

www.houstonchronicle.com

 

[Duffy LaCoronilla]

I saw a video.

Battery powered drones with little squirt hoses of water (warmed I would guess by some fossil fueled heat source).

Hope they keep those drones charged 24/7.

More common is helicopters spraying petrochemicals on them but drones are good too.

 

[casa_mugrienta]

Texas city forced to shut off water due to winter storm

Abilene, Texas, has been without water since 7 p.m. Monday.

abcnews.go.com

 

[Autoprax]

So this area never gets snow?

 

[Duffy LaCoronilla]

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