Have heard through the now frozen grapevine, diesel is tough to come by in large quantities.
It has been said by blackboxvote.org that the hammer/scorecard scam was run for Hillary and they did so in California so she would "win" the popular vote.
Wind/Solar do make up about 15% generation, as of 2017, purported to be 25% 2020. Power companies forecast this shit out many years and go off that. Some schedulers are a bit more in tune with allotment and not just a slave to the paper. A switch over in base loading of nuclear and large MW coal plants should have taken place way earlier as the shift to cooler winter weather occured. Peaking plants and some NG plants have a better ability to ramp up and make up the difference.
Wind companies in Texas made a financial decision not to invest in winterized turbines. Price difference unknown from standard blades. Like flying a plane with no prop deice, shit gets out of balance, vibrations tear up gearboxes, mounts, etc.
Several things could have been done but weren't. Freezing of NG pipelines non winterized, cooling lines frozen ( crews should have had that shit done during PM or downtime) Some plants, at least what anon heard as second hand, will feign a "failure" to bring back up during this type weather when price per MW greatly exceeds true cost of generation. Banks have an interest in financial derivatives related to this as well.
About time to revisit this as near same happened back in 2011.
“The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” — former CIA Director William Colby
Solar/Wind isn't a bad option during the spring/summer/early fall and more out west. But ice accumulation or snow on panels renders them useless.
The question becomes when to allow large MW generators to take on more baseload to make up for loss of wind solar for winter and when to switch back.
Anon hasn't found listing of "who" owns the larger size powerplants, but will be an OnCor, Entergy, or other.
Did they just forget that their operations should have been winterized back October/November ish?
An Operations Manager worth their salt would have taken initiative to get the chores done when weather was more conducive to rapid fixes and not the scrambling that occurs when shtf. I wonder how many plant night shifts sat around cooking, playing cards, or watching movies instead of busting.?
Hopefully, those in need are the resourceful/out of the box types and make those type connections to get what is needed where it is.
De Putron’s trunk.
Pretty nifty stuff
if the math is/was correct, you'd need a box of dinasaur leftovers 19miles cubed to make what the Saudis have…
that's a lot of effin dinos
That's what made abiotic generation of oil make sense.
Coal, lignite, peat, I get that….
vast reservoirs of oil 8 to 13K feet or more underground???
where did all the top soil come from?
for ref.
extremely rare to find…
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0084041