Into the Night
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The SDTC doesn't WANT to fix their grid.
Texas grid fails yet again
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The SDTC doesn't WANT to fix their grid.
Into the Night
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States build their own roads.
The only exception is the freeway system, which is not a State road.
ExpressLane
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It's not their problem. The Fed has spent too much money already its inflationary.
If you live on an island with 100 apples and $100.00 dollars each apple would be worth $1.00 if the government printed $100.00 and gave it to the people, apples would be worth $2.00 .
We have too many dollars chasing too few of goods and that is inflationary. We need to produce more and not print anymore funny money. Every time we print money it dilutes the buying power of your money. If we made a clean bill for infrastructure that paid for bridges and roads and that is all I would support it. But I don't want a bunch of pork in the bill.
Into the Night
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There is no United States. The United States was overthrown by Democrats. They have converted the federal government into an oligarchy and discarded the Constitution of the United States and all State constitutions.
Into the Night
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It remains to be seen if constitutional government of the federal layer can be restored.
Well, it's not the Feds that maintain them, they're all local electric companies. And you're right - many times it's tree branches taking out the telephone poles that causes the localized failures. I'm sure it's happened, but I cannot remember a city-wide failure anywhere in Western WA where I've lived since 73
ExpressLane
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My dryer is working just fine.
It sounds like you are catching on to just how fucked we are.
Into the Night
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During the big freeze last time, natural gas lines plugged due to icing. All natural gas has some water vapor in it.
Well, then why did he high-tail it back to TX when he was caught and then throw his family under the bus? C'mon man - don't defend that clown, he's a total doofus.
*Whoosh!*
Cruz is worse than worthless, he's harmful. He's the boil on the butt of TX.
Yes but the story is even worse than that, power was turned off to heaters on the lines in order to prioritize having electricity for homes....now a lot of the lines never got heaters but where they exist it is critically important that they operate during freezes. Then once they do freeze it takes at least days to get them unfrozen.
This reminds me of the feds shutting down a major baby formula plant when there is no evidence that any formula was contaminated, and months later the plant is still closed, and no alternate supply was attempted......either stunningly stupid decisions by the people in charge...or a deliberate attempt to harm America.
It has to be one or the other.
ExpressLane
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You had better tell these people.
Washington is the #5 state with the most power outages in the last year
https://stacker.com/washington/washington-5-state-most-power-outages-last-year
Into the Night
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Not a closed functional system as you describe.
Goods and services are being created all the time. That's capitalism. That's a healthy deflationary pressure. One example is the computer market over the years. Better machines and services for much less than the big old mainframes from before. This is creation of wealth.
However, you are somewhat correct as well.
If money is printed faster than the creation of wealth, then you have inflation. If slower, you have deflation. The government WANTS inflation. It allows them to pay back their debt with funny money (in other words, theft). It also satisfies immediate needs to keep the fun and games rolling in the government. But, THAT has a price. The government finds that what it buys is now through inflation as well. Their own costs go up.
So they print MORE money. It's a self destructive spiral, called a Cash Crash.
Printing money to pay for bridges and roads makes no difference. The inflation will make the bridges and roads to be built and maintained more expensive to do so.
It's not pork that's the problem. It's the fact that we are using a fiat currency. Governments are well known for not being able to manage their budgets.
Yeah, my friend, but like I said they're all local and they last no more than an hour or two. I admit it's a problem but nothing like TX had to deal with recently.
The WOKE fully intend to remove a lot of hydro by removing dams on the theory that the salmon will be more happy ....turbulence ahead.
Into the Night
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Except for the Bonneville Power Administration, of course. We buy power from them just like most States in the West do. They're pretty good at maintaining their equipment though.
The City of Seattle does not buy from Bonneville. They generate all their power from hydroelectric power up in the mountains (particularly Snoqualmie Falls and Diablo dam). SnoPUD also buys power from Diablo dam.
Puget Power does buy Bonneville power. It also buys power from a nuke in Eastern Washington, and a couple of coal plants in Western Washington, and from natural gas power plants.
Eastern Washington buys from Bonneville power, the nuke over there, and uses a lot of real estate for wind farms.
The poles are usually not damaged. Sometimes an idiot in a car will take out a pole though. Tree limbs are usually small enough to very temporarily short a couple of primaries together, then burn away or get blown off by the same wind. The system here will detect that and throw the breaker, automatically resetting after three seconds. Usually it holds since the short is no longer there.
Occasionally, a big branch will come down and not burn away. The reset event fails, and the power goes out. In a widespread storm, it can take awhile for crews to locate all the tree branches and remove them. All this work has to be coordinated with the dispatcher at the power company providing the line, and of course, traffic control services. It can take a bit of time to organize all that.
You can always use a generator, but don't allow any of it's output to be fed into the power line. Fully disconnect the power line before you use the generator. That transformer will take your generator output and put 7.2kV on the lines the crews are working on. Most crews will put shorting wires on those lines to protect themselves from such morons, but it does destroy their generators (they deserve it!).
Remember too that these crews to a fantastic job, going around and getting up there to remove all those tree limbs usually during very poor and hazardous weather conditions. My hard hat is off to them!
Ah. Then you didn't live through the Great Snowstorm of '67, like I did. I lived on Somerset at the time. We watched Seattle go out, section by section as each substation blew up when the snow weight crushed the switching and conditioning system at these substations. Many of those were caused by snow and ice plugging the cooling vents for the transformer oil, overheating and destroying said transformer.
There wasn't a light in the city, except for cars. Of course, we didn't have power either. All the Eastside was out as well.
It took a couple of weeks to rebuild all the substation damage. Again, fantastic crews working in freezing temperatures and heavy snow so you can get your power back on.
ExpressLane
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Yes that was bad we didn't build the grid for that kind of a winter storm because there has never been a winter storm that was that cold that wide spread and for that long. It broke records all over the state. A big problem is the natural gas producers froze up and couldn't deliver fuel to the electric plants. AA never before problem in the state. Then ice storms froze up the blades on several wind generators knocking them out. It was a bad one I had to start my Generac and we were fine.
It was hot in the 1940s...NO AC....slut