Texas urges residents to cut power usage as prices surge

[Into the Night]

Isn't that odd? My area is putting in huge 10+ acre solar farms everywhere. I get a 10% savings on my electric bill because my power is coming from the grid that is fed in part by solar.

No. You get a 10% savings because of subsidies. Solar farms are the most expensive method of producing electricity there is.

 

[Into the Night]

Who is going to come up with the money? No investors will touch it.

They already did and they already do, dumbass.

 

[Into the Night]

Trumpers hate tech because Trump tells them to do so. It's really very simple because all of them are simple minded.

You are describing yourself again, Sock.

 

[Into the Night]

You might ask who's subsidizing that...

He's got a bad case of TANSTAAFL. He thinks it's free.

 

[Into the Night]

When Texas' grid now fails every winter, it's solar and wind that keep them alive.

The Texas grid hasn't failed. It didn't even fail during that nasty winter storm.

 

[Into the Night]

Which is why they refuse to tie into the national grid.

Texas has lines that connect to the ERIC. There is no national grid.

 

[Into the Night]

So? Who's subsidizing nuclear?

No one.

 

[Into the Night]

Liar. Nuclear has been around for half a century. No nuke plant was ever built using private sector funding.

Blatant lie. https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/us-nuclear-plant-owners-and-operators

 

[Into the Night]

Nope. You are a liar who cannot tell the truth. Gas failed miserably last winter. And now with soaring temps, Texas would be fucked without wind/solar.

Big Freeze 2023: Can Solar Save Texas’ Fragile Power Grid?



Solar, wind energy keeping Texas power grids running amid weekslong heat wave

Texas has very little solar power panels. Most of Texas power comes from natural gas. Wind generators are a significant portion, but wind turbines cannot operate in icing conditions.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

You are describing yourself again, Sock.

YALSA

YALSA

YALSA.

 

[Into the Night]

Wrong. Solar and wind, per your article supplied about 25% (mostly wind) of the Texas grid usage. That could have been imported from elsewhere if it had to be. So, the article is really lying. Solar and wind made local production easier, but that's it. And, it could just as easily, depending on conditions, have been a near zero contributor.

Solar made essentially zero contribution, since Texas has almost no solar power plants.
Wind generators produced nothing. They cannot operate in icing conditions.

Pretty much ALL the power in Texas during the Big Freeze came from natural gas and coal.

 

[Into the Night]

Stop lying for once in your life. Without Fed funding via loan guarantees there would be no nuke plants.

Blatant lie. I have already given you the link showing otherwise.

Say nothing of all of the research that developed our nuke industry.

That came from private funding as well. In Idaho.

The govt. loves nukes because the waste makes great bombs.

Nuclear waste cannot make a bomb. Not even newly made nuclear fuel can make a bomb. Even if you had weapons grade material, it's still not a bomb, though you can use that to make one.

 

[Into the Night]

It wasn't. It kept the lights on during the freeze, and now it keeps prices somewhat lower during soaring usage in the heat.

Neither solar or wind produced any power during the freeze.

 

[Into the Night]

And the solar and wind industries that they blame for their problems.

They are the most expensive methods of producing electricity. The only reason they are there is due to heavy subsidies.

 

[Into the Night]

Really? What do you think they do with spent uranium? Hint...we dumped thousands of them in Iraq.

Spent nuclear fuel is kept in ponds on site for a period of time. They are then moved to nuclear waste dumps. They are not capable of making a bomb.
NO nuclear weapon was used on Iraq.

 

[Into the Night]

You've lied twice. You've proved nothing.

Argument of the Stone fallacy.

 

[Into the Night]

Depleted uranium is material left over after enrichment. It isn't used in nuclear power plants, nor is it made from spent fuel that is chock-a-block with fission fragments that aren't uranium at all.

Quite right. Depleted uranium is not even radioactive.

 

[Into the Night]

LMAO.

So nuke power is produced without enriched uranium. That's fascinating.

Pay attention, dumbass.
The enriched uranium is used to make nuclear fuel. It is not capable of making a bomb.

 

[Into the Night]

That is a lot of land that no longer produces food

You need to get out more.

 

[Into the Night]

No, proof wind and solar can't replace fossile fuel

True, since there is no such thing as fossil fuel. Fossils aren't used as fuel. Fossils don't burn.