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Dem wind mills be spinning when de wind blows
Posted on 07/18/2022 9:07:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
my pleasure
Batteries are 5.1kWh/48V/100Ah Gyll LifePo4 lithium batteries. I have 6 of them in operation with 12 more waiting to be installed. The 19-year warranty guarantees a slight reduction in throughput to still be operating at 50% the final year.
Panels are 32 X 320W (total 10kW) all on the south portion of my unshaded metal roof. There are 32 X 330W waiting to be installed, 8 of them will go on my south roof with the other 24 on my north roof, though the pitch is slight (they'll be pointing almost straight up). Warranty is 25 years / still operating at 70% final year.
I'm old, 74. My ancestors came to this county in 1889. We have owned operated farms here ever since. I was the 1st of my immediate family to move away, for 25 years. Came back in 1995.
My father's grandfather was born in the Republic of Texas. This is on his tombstone:
https://twitter.com/TX_1/status/813228188323160066
I am not going anywhere.
Yep.
Snowmageddon changed everything. Now we are under a microscope and every weather event brings out the critics.
You are not misremembering, Abbott decided to bet on wind and solar. So until we build a few more nukes we’re screwed.
I’ve lived in Houston for 40 years & remember having quite a few summer “brown-outs” back in the 80’s. The utility company would give you a discount if you let them install a radio-controlled switch on your a/c unit, so they could turn it off for about 30 minutes or so during high demand periods.
If that is the case where you live, so be it-but I don’t know one single person of any age whose primary concern over secession is not having mediscare-far from it-we know it is crappy insurance for the price-and in case you haven’t researched-it isn’t free-if you work, you have paid-and will pay-into it forever-if you didn’t work and pay in, or have a spouse who didn’t-then you don’t get mediscare.
You might be able to get MEDICAID-which really is free crap paid for by us taxpayers-even mojados/illegals-get medicaid-and you and I pay for that-hopefully, if any states seceede, the welfare leeches on medicaid will leave, because that program-along with “free” housing, EBT cards, etc would come to a screeching halt with no fedzilla to fund it with our tax money-that’s the best way to lower taxes and everything else-get the lazy and unwilling to work-of all ages-to move out of the state, along with disillusioned liberals-a good thing...
Private charities were created to care for the really needy and indigent-so let them start doing that again...
I’m not going anywhere, either-my ancestors came to Texas and NM from Mexico before 1800 to live farther away from the Spanish govt-hostile natives were apparently easier to live around as long as you were a good neighbor-they didn’t tax your belongings and take livestock every time their soldiers marched by your place...
I don’t think a lot of people whose ancestors were not from Texas-or somewhere else in the West or even some Southern states get what it means to have deep roots here-especially to those of us who are rural people...
Hopefully, Texas can bring some older coal-fired units back online in view of the ruling against the EPA.
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Yesyesyes!!
Its these stupid wind farms etc that have replaced traditional power generation that is causing the problems. They are NOT reliable!
It is still a part of our being. It is one thing to read history books, but oral family history is a much more credible learning tool. I grew up hearing those lessons and the way hard times were handled.
Leave us along to live our lives in peace and we will get along fine. If that is not satisfactory, we will deal with it.
May it ever be so.
Nobody says you have to leave, they will just make it economically attractive to.
A new country with few old people and no illegals will be robust and prosperous.
A lot of your process equipment used in coal would stand idle. Such as coal dumping facilities, grinder , conveyor system, precipitator and such.
The generator runs on 300 to 600 lb steam that can be obtained by new NG furnaces and utilize existing steam tubing
Existing cooling and water feed systems can be utilized.
The price of NG will go back up. Just a matter of time. Then these producers would be squalling about not having coal equipment.
Have not met a Missourian with mule mentality and cannot grasp what the EPA is doing to Texas and it’s 49 bitches
A LOT of people in the Austin area are putting underground propane tanks in place with Generac generators that will run the entire house.
Speaking as someone who lives in Houston, this has been the worst summer so far in a very long time.
Live west of you and you are correct. Something is very bad about this heat, more so than before. Monterrey, Mexico drying up. No water. Don’t think the media is on to it yet.
Dem wind mills be spinning when de wind blows
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