[AGL] how are we coping?

[Michael Eisenstadt]

How are you and Mike doing? All A-1 okey dokey?

Texas is having the current problem for a number of different reasons. 
I've been researching the causes and as far as I can tell the main 
culprits are uninsulated gas pipe lines and frozen water mains knocking 
gas fired electric generating plants off line. The wind farms also have 
a serious problem when there is an ice storm for ice building up on the 
blades makes them vibrate which triggers an automatic shutdown. The 
blades are not heated which is quite feasible - like the grid of heating 
wires in the rear windows of cars which will melt any snow that builds 
up on them. The cost of retrofitting electric heating into the blades is 
prohibitive for it would require dismounting the blades from the 
turbine. However wind farms are just a small part of the problem. They 
were expected to contribute 10% to the grid but half are off line. In 
the summer wind farms contribute a healthy 27% of the electricity to the 
grid.

I don't see how politics comes into it. Politicians come and go. You 
have a tendancy to politicize everything. The issue here is problems 
with the infrastructure, not Rick Perry (is he back in Texas?) or the 
guy in the wheelchair.

Mike

On 2/18/2021 1:39 PM, Frances Morey wrote:
> Wow, who knew it would come to this? Bye bye Greg Abbott. Deregulate, 
> distance from cooperating with the federation of states, no new taxes, 
> yeah, sure, industries are invited to come here, but can they depend 
> on us for water, electricity and healthy workers? We'll get back to 
> you on that.
> Rick Perry is a fool and so are his followers.
> Best,
> Frances
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:44 PM Michael Eisenstadt 
> <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com <mailto:mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     To encourage or discourage one another I suggest that you - yes
>     you in the corner there - to report on your current situation
>     regarding electricty, water, heat and/or the winter blues.
>
>     Here in Austin it is snowing like a Hallmark Christmas card coming
>     down softly. Wife adelon and I have electricity and heating.
>     However our water supply has been cut off. We are flushing the
>     toilet with water from the swimming pool in the courtyard. We have
>     collected some snow water and a gent downstairs kindly poured some
>     of his store-bought water from a great demi-john into our plastic
>     jug. We washed the dirty dishes from the last few days with heated
>     swimming pool water. Simming pool water should /not/ be drunk - it
>     will make you sick.
>
>     Mike
>
>

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