We set a new record for days of 100+ today in San Antonio at 60. Probably finish around 70-75 looking at the two week forecast that is mostly over 100. Got up to 109 in my neighborhood today but has dropped to 106 thankfully with that compressional heating ahead of the cold front that you guys got wrecked with yesterday.Cool and light rain in Fort Worth, our first in about 75 days. Temp plummeted 20 degrees to 85.
Low 75 tonight,
We are now in the top 10 of most days over 100 degrees in a summer:
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To make it to number 1, we will need almost another month over 100!
The cold front dropped us to a whole 102 in San Antonio yesterday. Guess better off than you though, fuck.Hoping today is better. Hit 109.6F (43C) yesterday.
Almost like they set up ERCOT specifically for that.
GOP Talking point:Here we fucking go. More manipulation from energy generators here so they can squeeze the price higher just like last week, just like 2021, just like 2011.
That's exactly what that fucking crook Abbott said in winter 2021 when that was caused by a bunch of gas taken offline right as the huge polar vortex cold front came through. Same thing happened in winter 2011 when a big cold front was coming through. Both times the gas companies underestimated the demand and took too much offline, but at least in 2011 they were close enough that it only took a morning of rolling blackouts to steady the grid while in 2021 it took five days of rolling blackouts.GOP Talking point:
See you can't count on renewables.
Deregulation...that was the lie that Pete Wilson sold to California...along with "you can choose your own electricity supplier and your local utility will wheel it to you for a minimal charge." Then, so many Californians tried to abandon their local providers that the governor and legislature cancelled that part of the plan...but left deregulation on place...which led up to the power problems the state faced.
It’s going to be another squeeker tonight.
Major Problem?
You laugh but the Texas government paid millions to miners to shut their operations down in the five days of continous rolling blackouts of 2021.Quick, fire up all the crypto miners.
In Texas, the computers kept running until just after midnight. Then the state’s power grid operator ordered them shut off, under an agreement that allowed it to do so if the system was about to fail. In return, it began paying the Bitcoin company, Bitdeer, an average of $175,000 an hour to keep the computers offline. Over the next four days, Bitdeer would make more than $18 million for not operating, from fees ultimately paid by Texans who had endured the storm.
Just put archive.is/ in front of the URLYou laugh but the Texas government paid millions to miners to shut their operations down in the five days of continous rolling blackouts of 2021.
Sorry, the article is paywalled though
The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin (Published 2023)
Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution. In many cases, the public pays a price.www.nytimes.com
A nuclear plant went OFFLINE?? WTF!Here we fucking go again. More manipulation from energy generators here so they can squeeze the price higher just like last week, just like 2021, just like 2011.
It's usually gas that goes offline but coal/gas/nuclear are all lumped together in ERCOT's reporting I think.A nuclear plant went OFFLINE?? WTF!
I have to admit this. I was living in CA when that initiative came up, and I voted for it. Seemed like a reasonable idea at the time. Yea, but wasn't it the Republicans in the CA legislature that cancelled the plan?Deregulation...that was the lie that Pete Wilson sold to California...along with "you can choose your own electricity supplier and your local utility will wheel it to you for a minimal charge." Then, so many Californians tried to abandon their local providers that the governor and legislature cancelled that part of the plan...but left deregulation on place...which led up to the power problems the state faced.
YepI have to admit this. I was living in CA when that initiative came up, and I voted for it. Seemed like a reasonable idea at the time. Yea, but wasn't it the Republicans in the CA legislature that cancelled the plan?
A nuclear plant went OFFLINE?? WTF!
It should be noted that a nuclear power plant going off line doesn’t mean they had an accident with the core or are in danger of releasing radiation. There are many parts of a power plant that can fail that could prevent them from dumping electricity onto the grid that have no or minimal impact on the nuclear part of the plant.A nuclear plant went OFFLINE?? WTF!