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'Unplanned' outages hit Texas power plants in soaring temperatures
Officials with Texas' power grid operator pleaded with residents Monday to limit their electrical usage amid soaring temperatures and a series of mechanical problems at power plants.
The appeal, from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, comes four months after deadly blackouts during a winter storm left millions of people without power — and weeks after state legislators passed a package of measures aimed at fixing some of the problems exposed by the storm.
Officials with the nonprofit group, which oversees 90 percent of Texas' energy production, asked residents to set their thermostats higher, turn off lights and avoid using larger appliances until Friday.
A spokeswoman for the group told reporters that the outages accounted for more than 12,000 megawatts, enough to power 2.4 million homes. Some areas of the state, including Dallas and Tarrant counties, were warned about poor air quality and potentially dangerous heat, with the heat index approaching 110 degrees.
A senior official with ERCOT, Warren Lasher, said it wasn't clear why there were so many unplanned outages. But he said that the group is "deeply concerned" about the plants that are offline and that a thorough investigation is being conducted to better understand the problems.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday June 16 2021, @12:32PM (11 children)
The total amount of energy received by the Earth from the Sun in one hour is about π*(6371e3)2*1300 [wikipedia.org]Wh =1.66e17 Wh.
The total energy produced by humans in 2019 is about 170,000 TWh = 1.7e17Wh [ourworldindata.org]
So, your argument is technically correct but weak. As weak as 1/(365*24) = 0.000114
the "enhottening" of the environment is related to the amount of energy that the extra CO2 captures from the Sun rather than the extra heat that the humans manages to produce. Strictly from the point of view of avoiding extra CO2, solar or nuclear are equivalent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by js290 on Wednesday June 16 2021, @03:10PM (10 children)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday June 16 2021, @03:31PM (8 children)
Interesting but fishy
From the second link
I don't think that the solar irradiance or total surface atmospheric pressure changed much over the last 200ky. And yet we had a glaciation until about 12000-11000 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by js290 on Wednesday June 16 2021, @03:59PM (7 children)
relative to CO2? which is still less than 0.05% of atmospheric gases by volume.
See Younger Dryas impact hypothesis...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday June 16 2021, @04:26PM (6 children)
Which still jumped 60% since and over the level at the beginning of the industrial revolution [i.redd.it].
Still a better hypothesis for the warming of the climate than an yet to be discovered impact crater, which supposedly melt the ice... what... in North America only?
And better than just "two forcing variables: top-of-the-atmosphere solar irradiance and total surface atmospheric pressure" which remained pretty constant over the recent period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0, Redundant) by js290 on Wednesday June 16 2021, @11:04PM (5 children)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday June 16 2021, @11:25PM (4 children)
Any explanation for which this adiabatic compression increased since the last glaciation and picked up speed lately all over the world?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by js290 on Wednesday June 16 2021, @11:35PM (3 children)
Climate constant has been the hoax... "Every culture that has depended on annual plants for their staple food crops has collapsed." [bit.ly]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday June 16 2021, @11:53PM (2 children)
And yet that's exactly what your beloved theory would predict: at constant solar input and constant atmospheric pressure, the average temperature of a planet's atmosphere will be constant, because those two forcing factors alone determine it.
When the evidence contradict the theory, whatcha gonna do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by js290 on Thursday June 17 2021, @02:20AM (1 child)
Mark Shepard on Restoration Agriculture - "Annual agriculture is all about living through our concepts... our idea we've imposed on reality & when reality doesn't behave according to our idea, what do we do? We input... we can never input enough to make our false concept correct." [bit.ly]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 17 2021, @05:50AM
I asked you to sustain with arguments your theory in the face of evidence contradicting it and I get from you unrelated red herrings wrapped in appeal to authority papers.
That's sad for you if even not the sharpest tool in the shed can see the hollowness of your discourse.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday June 17 2021, @05:38AM
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