Posted on 06/26/2021 7:32:32 AM PDT by bgill
The City of Austin’s biomass power plant sat idle again, producing no power, during another statewide electricity shortage last week, according to the city’s electric utility Austin Energy...
“Last week when ERCOT called for conservation, we started the 24 – 48 hour process to start the plant back up. Upon startup, we discovered an issue that needed repair...
Austin’s biomass plant produced no power. The grid alert last week unnerved many Texans, but it registered as a relatively minor inconvenience compared to the winter storm crisis Texas experienced in February. The Nacogdoches plant was powered off during that event as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...
It was down during the big TX freeze and broken this week.
It is rattling around in my head that there were also issues with coal and nuclear plants having to do with repairs and maintenance; which was another reason they wanted thermostats raised
Well that’s embarrassing. Not a Texan, hopefully you guys will sort out your energy issues.
I wonder what the market would be if Texas developed and became an energy exporter instead of the way it is right now.
Isn’t biomass nothing but a big pile of bullchit?
Which is why the idling was so curious. I think there would be a bigger concentration of bull$hit around Austin than anywhere else in Texas.
What’s a biomass power plant?
And every car will be electric pretty soon...according to our Dear Leaders.
Start stocking up on horse and huggies people. I admire the Amish, they had it right all along.
Biomass...garbage. Fools should just use clean coal.
“Biomass”
Use oil to cut down trees
Use oil to transport trees to mill
Use oil produced electricity to chip trees
Use oil to haul chips to biomass plant
*PRODUCE GREEN POWER*
Use oil to haul ash away
“Well, at least they meant well.”
What’s scary is that Texas gets much hotter than it’s been this June.
…and what are oil and coal (fossil fuels)? Decayed trees and plants!
No. It's a big pile of trees that could be used for lumber.
Don't you remember the deregulation of electricity you were promised?
The one that allowed you to choose your provider and even the rate.
Correct me if I'm wrong but most of the ERCOT board regulating the de-regulation aren't even residents of Texas.
You might need those guns after all.
Thermal plant burning “renewable” carbonates.
Usually low quality wood and wood chips. Sometimes waste paper, sometimes plastics and even used tires.
Sometimes other garbage. They used to call it incinerator, but that is now bad world.
They tried doing the same crappola out here in Ca — the origin of most bad, stupid, contagious ideas in this country. It’s burnable trash. Hopefully what would otherwise go to the landfill. But, since recycling has finally been revealed as the scam it always was (i.e., from Day One it was simply shipping crappola to China — where it sat in a pile for the gulls and rats to feed on) the paper stuff is burned, too.
Unfortunately, that has to be hand sorted so nasty plastics and toxic metals (which are in everything) don’t go up the chimney, too. Hand sorting is labor intensive, which pushes the overall cost way past anything other than burning unicorn farts. A biomass plant is another virtue signaling wrong turn — I mentioned it came from CaCaLand, didn’t I?
Not necessarily, but biomass is not as clean burning as coal ( in the boiler itself, not the stack emissions) so the combustion side of the boilers need more maintenance.
sounds like austin, being on the grid, wants to use everyone else’s power. Build a big coal plant and keep it running. out side of austin’s grid. (probably can’t be done that way. just hoping)
What? ... Austin Marxist Socialists don't crap enough?
10-4. Thanks
The Texas legislature needs to reign in that city big time.
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