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philip964 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 12:09 pm

MaduroBU wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:39 am https://www.reuters.com/article/europe- ... SL8N2KN312

Power in Germany, where they are struggling with the poor power factor of wind and solar to cope with heating demands, was $56/MWh yesterday. That is their norm, versus an average of $13-15 on ERCOT's grid. AOC is trying to cherry pick data so that she can get around the fact that her refusal to acknowledge thermodynamics or chemistry will hurt poor people while leaving rich folks like her unaffected. Never mind the fact that California's grid fails every summer where ERCOT does not.

ERCOT is currently running at $9,000.00 /MWh and has been since Sunday night. So ERCOT’s average rate doesn’t impress me that much at the moment.

ERCOT but more importantly the PUC didn't lean on power plants and natural gas lines to protect against an every decade event. They deserve plenty of blame. But the people like Ed Hirs who hate the open market for power that keeps out energy cheap will try to use this to end the marketplace and the result will be $0.17-0.20/kwh instead of $0.123. My point is that everyone will try to cast blame to advance their agenda, and most folks won't care much about the root cause beyond how it can make them look right. Some folks want to tear down the wind turbines that had nothing to do with this disaster and some folks want to end the open market. I think that the balanced approach is recognizing the benefits of wind power and feeding some of those subsidies into hardening the necessary and reliable infrastructure like natural gas, nuclear and coal; others will try to end the marketplace, which will cost Texans tens of millions over time.

https://www.reuters.com/article/europe- ... SL8N2KN312

Power in Germany, where they are struggling with the poor power factor of wind and solar to cope with heating demands, was $56/MWh yesterday. That is their norm, versus an average of $13-15 on ERCOT's grid. AOC is trying to cherry pick data so that she can get around the fact that her refusal to acknowledge thermodynamics or chemistry will hurt poor people while leaving rich folks like her unaffected. Never mind the fact that California's grid fails every summer where ERCOT does not.

An openly hostile crowd surrounded Rand Paul as he walked home under police protection from the GOP convention (ironically denouncing him for a supposed failure to oppose no-knock raids, a cause which he has championed alone since his election to the Senate). Has AOC called upon those who inspired that crowd to resign? No, because she's both histrionic and has the self-awareness of a starfish.

This is what the Yellow Vest protests are fighting. The peasants don't want to huddle with farm animals in the snow while their lords and ladies laugh and sip wine by a roaring hearth.
It turns out that "progressive" merely refers to well-marketed feudalism.

I want to hear less about this clown and more about the suffering of the people of Venezuela, who elected similar scumbags and are now starving because of it. She scares me because she and her kind will kill millions of us. They literally always do, but they never learn because they make sure that they're okay.

Socialism is a murderous sickness of the mind, and the graves of tens of millions bear testament. We cannot forget that or their sacrifice was for nothing.

I want to make a gofundme for her to send her on a research mission to Venezuela. It MUST funded in petrocoins.

This could be hilarious.