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Tell me a joke! The OF humor thread :-D

STANDY
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I always say Darwin Australia is just like Texas in Alaska
Texas temperature and size
Alaska remoteness

looks like it’s finally coming true for Texas 😎
 
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Sounds like someone effed up and didn't put in the proper weather packages then. Our wind turbines work fine in all temperatures with snow and ice, but are appropriately prepared for it clearly.

I read that only 13% of the power outages were from wind systems being frozen, as most was from natural gas and coal power stations...I guess they didn't prepare those very well either.

Those "100 year events" are all too common these days...

Yep. And only 7% of the power supply in Texas comes from wind energy to begin with.

And this photo was widely distributed:

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With one politician commenting:

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...That photo is from a demonstration of how to remove ice from the turbines. Using steam. In Sweden. In 2014.

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ConElPueblo ConElPueblo
Yep. And only 7% of the power supply in Texas comes from wind energy to begin with.

Although only 7% of capacity, there are times when wind supplies up to 50% of the power being generated at any given time. (source EIA)
 
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I suspect cutting 7% of the supply is easily enough to cause widespread problems during severe weather events when power demand is at a peak. The rolling blackouts reportedly did not go as intended/ hoped.
 
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Confirmed.
Some metro areas faired better than others. We did not.
 
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BlackTalon BlackTalon
I suspect cutting 7% of the supply is easily enough to cause widespread problems during severe weather events when power demand is at a peak. The rolling blackouts reportedly did not go as intended/ hoped.

...But you are aware that it was other power sources that failed the most, right?
 
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Power plants are "encouraged" to prepare their systems for extreme cold but it is not policed. This was the problem.
 
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redpcar redpcar
Power plants are "encouraged" to prepare their systems for extreme cold but it is not policed. This was the problem.

I don't know how common those temperatures were in Texas, but I could well believe we would be in trouble in this country if we got the same weather as you have in the summer time..!
 
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ConElPueblo ConElPueblo
...But you are aware that it was other power sources that failed the most, right?
Going by what my mom has told me on a couple phone calls this week. I'm half a continent away so double-checking her info has not been near the top of my To-Do list.
 
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City folk......

I go camping for weeks on end with no power for fun. 😉
 
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redpcar redpcar
Power plants are "encouraged" to prepare their systems for extreme cold but it is not policed. This was the problem.

Seems the whole of Texas runs it’s electric grid like a island compared to the rest of America


'An electrical island': Texas has dodged federal regulation for years by having its own power grid
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-state-has-its-own-operated-ercot/6782380002/
 
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John O'Reilly hoisted his beer and said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life, between the legs of me wife !"
That won him the top prize at the pub for the best toast of the night !
He went home and told his wife, Mary, "I won the prize for the Best toast of the night." She said, "Aye, did ye now. And what was your toast?" John said, "Here's to spending the rest of me life, sitting in church beside me wife." "Oh, that is very nice indeed, John!" Mary said.
The next day, Mary ran into one of John's drinking buddies on the street corner. The man chuckled leeringly and said, "John won the prize the other night at The pub with a toast about you, Mary." She said, "Aye, he told me, and I was a bit surprised myself.
...You know, he's only been in there twice in the last four years....
"The first time I had to pull him by the ears to make him come, and the other time he just fell asleep."
 
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