https://twitter.com/zackbornstein/status/1362507545844224000?s=21
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Iâm honestly surprised this isnât an Onion headline.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1362485853520560129
Is this how all grids work - if demand outstrips supply rather than not supply to the excess they catch fire, blow up and collapse?
edit: I do remember something about electricity grids not being analogous to water supply systems and that keeping electriicty flowing is pretty complicated.
My minimal understanding of this is that the grids are engineered to be somewhat fault-tolerant (e.g, circuit breakers that trip when current draw exceeds a given threshold), and not destroy themselves when overburdened. But who the heck knows when you have the degree of corner-cutting that seems to have been the norm with ERCOT.
Text messages sent from Ms. Cruz to friends and Houston neighbors on Wednesday revealed a hastily planned trip. Their house was âFREEZING,â as Ms. Cruz put it â and she proposed a getaway until Sunday. Ms. Cruz invited others to join them at the Ritz-Carlton in CancĂșn, where they had stayed âmany times,â noting the room price this week ($309 per night) and its good security. The text messages were provided to The New York Times and confirmed by a second person on the thread, who declined to be identified because of the private nature of the texts.
Typical coastal elite behavior. Leaving the plebs to die while they vacation
Ted Cruzâs Trip to CancĂșn Draws Fire Amid Texasâ Deep Freeze Ted Cruzâs CancĂșn Trip: Family Texts Detail His Political Blunder - The New York Times
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Yeah, if supply and demand donât match then the AC frequency will change and this can do serious damage to equipment designed to run on a certain frequency, which includes generators, induction motors and transformers.
Saying the power grid was âseconds and minutes away from catastrophic failureâ seems a bit misleading though. What this Magness guy is saying is by way of justifying why load shedding was necessary. Itâs a bit like saying âit was necessary to brake to stop at this red lightâ and the headline is âcar seconds away from plowing through busy intersection, driver saysâ.
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The best part is their friends hate them so much they jumped at the opportunity to give up those texts
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I listened to the ERCOT call. What he was saying is, that load was getting dropped one way or another because the generation was failing. Controlled blackouts allowed the operator to avoid a catastrophic failure that would have taken weeks or months to recover from. And the grid was close to that point.
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Every Dem needs to be yelling and screaming and pointing at Ted Cruz right now and instead theyâre planning more Trump investigations. JFC, where is Beto? He should be on camera shoveling driveways and handing out food and shit right now.
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Democrats are bleeding Hispanic votes in Texas, this should be a layup.
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He isnât on the ballot again until 2024. There will be zero consequences for him politically, but Democrats have an opportunity to use this as a very clear example of what we all know to be true: Republicans absolutely do not give a flying fuck about their constituents.
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Right. What I think is misleading about this:
Texasâ power grid was âseconds and minutesâ away from a catastrophic failure that could have left Texans in the dark for months
is that it suggests there was a realistic possibility of this happening, which is why the red light analogy. Like âcatastrophe narrowly averted only because car is equipped with brakesâ is a technically accurate description of stopping for a red light, but itâs misleading because of the suggestion that this catastrophe is anything but an abstract alternative that was never going to be allowed to happen.
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This is a start.