Posted on 02/17/2021 4:25:52 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Coal is the answer. Coal is for making electricity. Oil is for cars. Has he s best for home heating and cooking use.
“corn or wood pellet heaters.”
Just keep in mind those types of heaters require electricity to operate. You would be better off with a traditional wood or coal stove for emergency heat.
This is my shocked face
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Birds of a feather pushing BS
Where do I put that in my apartment?
——hopper fed ——
Electricity powers the hopper
being hopper fed, shoveling is thus not possible when the power is off
On socialist networking media the Left is calling for an end to the Texas energy grid
We’d be done within a week of an EMP.
I really don’t think this will be forgotten soon. Nextdoor.com and my police scanner are full of posts of floods in the houses and frozen pools. This is going to end up being a pretty major deal. It’s the first time I remember power going out for more than a few hours. Some are going 60+ without. 40 degrees in a lot of houses now. Some places aren’t getting hit at all, others down for days.. That’s going to piss a lot off real bad.
“Does Texas have a lot of the Wind Turbines that froze.”
I heard that TX gets 23% of it’s electricity from windmills (when they work).😀
“ I have an idea. Hopefully this will end Abbott. Then, let me be in charge. You will like what happens next. ”
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Abbott should draft Perry as his energy czar to straighten out this mess. Say what you want about Perry but he knows energy. Those currently in charge certainly took their eyes off the ball for sure.
Yeah and Abbott was Perry’s AG at the time. And like Perry he has been all in for wind and solar replacing coal, and for moving half of California in.
When i lived in COLD WORLD, coal was my mainstay. The cheapest fuel per btu. Go outside, grab 40lb bag, pop into yhe hopper, and you’re good to go for 12 to 18 hours. Wood required constant fiddling.
Windmills freezing would certainly seem part of the problem. I don’t doubt insufficient winterization is part of the problem, too. Quite often a fixation on either/or is common even when both/and is the more likely answer.
https://www.mrt.com/news/state/article/Frozen-wind-turbines-hamper-Texas-power-output-15951141.php
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3935031/posts
“I know people are angry and frustrated,” said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner...”
I know people are angry and frustrated..and stupid too for voting democrat.
No, on a hopper fed coal stove, gravity is the feed mechanism for the hopper.
You may not want to point out Party politics in this situation because you will not like where that rabbit hole leads to.
“ God gave this earth coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power and the wisdom of man to use them effectively.”
Four out of five ain’t bad.
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Sadly it was my industry that dropped the ball. Texas is over dependent on gas for power grid use because when times are good its the cheapest possible power plant to construct in capital costs. Coal and nuclear is nearly double to.triple as much. Record cold froze the well gathering lines and trucks couldn’t run to take away produced water so wells.got shut in and gas supply dropped by half or more. Gas went to over a $100 mmbtu thats insane. Its normally $3 to 5
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/
While methane doesn’t freeze until minus 273 degrees the water that is produced with it at the well head does and the gathering lines are plastic on the surface which during normal Texas winter’s rarely freezes due to the high salt.content and 100_130f temps out the earth but in single.digits over days time the ground cold sinks and the lines freeze.
All the adjacent regions had extreme weather too. I question whether that would have made a difference.
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