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DantesPeak
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 Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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Record high temperatures in April - nope, can't possibly have anything to do with global warming. But power plants didn't seem to function so well
in the pleasant April weather:
| Quote: | As temperatures climbed into the upper 90s _ and even to triple digits _ thousands of Texans found themselves without power as energy companies heeded an emergency call from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which runs the state's electricity grid. Police rushed to intersections to direct traffic during the afternoon rush hour.
As much as 15 percent of the state's power supply was already off-line for seasonal maintenance to brace for the summer's energy usage peaks. Then four power-generating plants shut down unexpectedly amid the stifling heat, said ERCOT spokesman Paul Wattles.
A recorded high of 101 degrees at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport broke the previous high of 94, set in 1913 and matched in 1925, according to the weather service. Temperatures reached 107 degrees in Laredo. |
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mrobert
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:28 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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This reminds me of the recent documentary I saw about Enron.
A modern society based on ripping eachother appart, based on rumours and crap.
So what if there is an outage?
It's not like the end of the world.
Offcourse. We have to put it on the news, make it a major event and boost commodity prices as a result.
We must also invade some country for the same reason, and God knows what else.
I experience a lot of power outages in my lifetime. At least 100, and up to 6-8 hours. There was no big deal. You could always find something better to do while waiting for the power to come back.
Then everything resumed as normal, and there was no big deal about it.
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Petro
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:34 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| Will be a curious wait today to see if they have the grid balanced...CNN says: 100 deg., today for most of TX. |
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Starvid
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:01 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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Thank god for:
South Texas Nuclear Generating Station, 2500 megawatts
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PrairieMule
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:59 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| Petro wrote: | | Will be a curious wait today to see if they have the grid balanced...CNN says: 100 deg., today for most of TX. |
The morning news said we should expect more rolling blackouts and 97-100 degree temps. The good news is we are getting a cool front tommorow and for Wed the high should be 78.
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pstarr
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:17 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| mrobert wrote: | I experience a lot of power outages in my lifetime. At least 100, and up to 6-8 hours. There was no big deal. You could always find something better to do while waiting for the power to come back.
Then everything resumed as normal, and there was no big deal about it. |
hey dude. texas is not romania. Texans have dreams as big as the prairie. We are a "just-in-time" folk. We don't have time to waste. We live on a razor-thin margin where time is money . . . and money is time. Don't waste my time because I don't have all the time in the world. Get busy or get lost.
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Leanan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:31 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| Quote: | | We don't have time to waste. We live on a razor-thin margin where time is money . . . |
Speaking of which...came across this story today:
Man ticketed for interfering with traffic signals
| Quote: | LONGMONT, Colo. - A man who said he bought a device that let him change traffic lights from red to green received a $50 ticket for suspicion of interfering with a traffic signal.
Jason Niccum of Longmont said the device, which he bought on eBay for $100, helped him cut his time driving to work.
“I guess in the two years I had it, that thing paid for itself,” he told the Daily Times-Call on Wednesday. |
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pstarr
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:40 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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do you suppose that it was used by ambulances and firetrucks? Wow! what a product for crafty entrepeneur. I remember black-market cable boxes. Do people still make and sell those?
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Leanan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:43 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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Yes, they are only supposed to be used by police, firefighters, and ambulances. But anyone can buy one.
I think they do make those cable descrambler boxes still, but I don't anywhere near the spam about them that I used to. Probably everyone's switched to fake satellite TV cards now...
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strider3700
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:07 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| Zardoz wrote: | Will whoever is holding down the fast-forward button please lift their thumb off it and give us a god-damned break!?!?
Peak Oil in 2006, global warming scenarios unfolding decades earlier than expected, power outages popping up all over, resource wars staging worldwide, Peak Gas, Peak Uranium, Peak Metals, Peak Water, Peak Fish, etc., etc., etc.
This is getting ridiculous! How they hell are we going to make any sort of smooth transition at this crazy rate!?
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Really things aren't moving any faster then predicted by some. Society just didn't like hearing that answer and eventually found someone else that said either these things won't happen, technology will make them non events or they will happen way in the future. We collectively stuffed our heads in the sand and decided to try for a few more percent of growth rather then make the expensive changes that we should have.
Now as crisis upon crisis start piling up and prepair to topple over on us we are realizing that things are connected, we can't just do as we please with no reguard to the consequences and the time to correct things is rapidly slipping away.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:12 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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I thought rolling blackouts were the exclusive domain of sunny California.  |
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cube
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:19 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| Starvid wrote: | Thank god for:
South Texas Nuclear Generating Station, 2500 megawatts |
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?   |
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Starvid
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:30 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| 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.
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PrairieMule
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:38 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| 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. 
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emersonbiggins
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:44 am Post subject: Re: Rolling blackouts in Texas |
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| 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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