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Leanan
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 Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:47 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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Maybe it's not a rainbow. Just the glow of radioactive waste. 
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PrairieMule
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:03 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| emersonbiggins wrote: | | PrairieMule wrote: | | Starvid wrote: | | cube wrote: | Hey wait a minute! Take a close look at the rainbow. I thought rainbows are suppose to have their colors in this order: red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple
Why is the red in the middle?   |
Probably photoshop. |
Well not to brag-but Texas it is a solid red state.  |
Well, that's more like admitting you have a problem.
That's the first step, you know.
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Of course if you ask anyone from Austin the center of the rainbow is burnt orange. That's because in Austin, UT is the center of the universe.
Then again if you asked a handfull of poli-sci or sociology majors at UT you would not get a clear answer. They can't seem to agree on what the proper order of colors on the rainbow. In fact it's worn out subject for Graduate Thesises.
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emersonbiggins
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:16 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| PrairieMule wrote: | Then again if you asked a handfull of poli-sci or sociology majors at UT you would not get a clear answer. They can't seem to agree on what the proper order of colors on the rainbow. In fact it's worn out subject for Graduate Thesises.
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LOL, the kind of people you put in a round room, tell them to sit in the corner, and just stand back in amazement!
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veliger
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:21 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| BrownDog wrote: | One of the traffic lights was out on the way home, though I only suspect that it is related. As you might guess, traffic was really backed up. Nobody was directing traffic, and I saw three near-accidents in just a few minutes.
It's a warm day, but it's going to get hotter in TX. This isn't good. |
Yes, it will get hotter, and the power plants currently off-line for maintenance will be humming along to power your air conditioner.
Power plants do their maintenance outages in the spring and autumn, when demand is lowest. A widespread heat wave during this period is unfortunate, but hardly the end of civilization. Most of you Mad Max Peak Oiler’s are absolutely nuts!! |
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PrairieMule
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:29 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| emersonbiggins wrote: | | PrairieMule wrote: | Then again if you asked a handfull of poli-sci or sociology majors at UT you would not get a clear answer. They can't seem to agree on what the proper order of colors on the rainbow. In fact it's worn out subject for Graduate Thesises.
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LOL, the kind of people you put in a round room, tell them to sit in the corner, and just stand back in amazement!
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About the only thing everyone agrees on is Stevie Ray Vaughn. Unless you assert that Texas Flood was a better album than Family Style.
You staying cool down there EB? TXU said we need to cut back on our power usage, but I'm afraid tommorow we will read about Aggies getting electrocuted cutting down power lines.
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emersonbiggins
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:37 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| PrairieMule wrote: |
About the only thing everyone agrees on is Stevie Ray Vaughn. Unless you assert that Texas Flood was a better album than Family Style.
You staying cool down there EB? TXU said we need to cut back on our power usage, but I'm afraid tommorow we will read about Aggies getting electrocuted cutting down power lines. |
Yeah, I'm staying cool. I'm actually hoping for a power outage, I could go home early and cool off under the big tree in the backyard. No AutoCad for me today!
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lotrfan55345
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| I thought rainbows could go in any order depending from your angle and atmospheric conditions. There sometimes can be all red rainbows or some othe color or just two colors etc. |
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Shannymara
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:43 pm Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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Well, go ahead and call me a doomer nutjob, but this thread is what inspired me to drop $3,000 on a Sundanzer freezer and PV system to power it today. I was thinking that Texas having its own grid would make us one of the last places to suffer from widespread power outages; looks like I was wrong. Silly assumption, really. Thanks, climate change and infinite growth model economy!
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Ludi
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:11 pm Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| PrairieMule wrote: |
Well not to brag-but Texas it is a solid red state. |
Nonsense.
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PrairieMule
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| Ludi wrote: | | PrairieMule wrote: |
Well not to brag-but Texas it is a solid red state. |
Nonsense. |
Oh come on now Ludi, I know that 100% of Texans are not homogeneous bible thumping conservative republicans, but look who gets elected in this state. When I say solid red state it's with a bit of wink in my eye. As in the majority. This state is just as solid red as California or New York is solid blue.
I'll be the first to be critical of Rick Perry for his mediocrity and disappointment of Kay Bailey Hutchinson's callowing on immigration but the reality is they are both going to slide back in November. The only Democrat that gets press in Texas is Shirley Lee Jackson and that's usually for sticking her foot in her mouth again. If the dems have a plan or platform I sure don't know about it. Maybe they left it on the bus in New Mexico.
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Pablo2079
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:56 am Post subject: Where are the brownouts/outages? |
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With a heatwave hitting more than 2/3rds of the US, where are the outages?
Seems like we would be hearing more regarding the power grid. I did a quick search and haven't found anything remarkable. |
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EnergyHog
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:40 am Post subject: Re: Where are the brownouts/outages? |
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| Pablo2079 wrote: | With a heatwave hitting more than 2/3rds of the US, where are the outages?
Seems like we would be hearing more regarding the power grid. I did a quick search and haven't found anything remarkable. |
Power was out for about 5 hours yesterday in parts of southeast Michigan. Not sure why. |
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pstarr
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:01 am Post subject: Re: Where are the brownouts/outages? |
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Why should there be outages? We have way more coal than we need and natural gas is plentiful.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:25 am Post subject: Re: Where are the brownouts/outages? |
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If your interested in electrical shortage issues, you might try this thread.
Review of the Olduvai Gorge |
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