Exactly, the issue was that 30 GW loss was on non-winterized infrastructure, mostly natgas. If the infrastructure had been maintained, there wouldn't have been an issue, just normal gridswitching in an out.

That's the part that is hard to grok. In teh north, the weather that brought Texas to its knees is just normal winter weather here. Probably because we comply with regulations and take decent care of our infrastructure. And true to form, we have some guy in here claiming I am a left winger and I h8t Texas. Fact's is fact, no matter of party affiliation

The performancecharacteristics of M series processors, and Intel Macs are so different that gnashing of teeth is unneeded.

Wheras Windows didn't offer much in teh way of improvements in W11, Indeed, I have two machines that run W11, and seriously, it is a downgrade.

I know what you are saying about, W10 and W7 running on older machines, but Comparisons between Intel and M-series (I have an M4) are pretty radical, and I've never looked back.

Yeah.I had one of the last Intel Macs. My Mac mini with M4 processor simply runs rings around it. I also use the Adobe Suite, which appears to make even larger speed increases.

Yah, Hard to imagine why anyone would want to stick with an Intel Mac at this point.

You can't look up things yourself? Perhaps not. Anyhow, after the grid first went down, Your Governor blamed it on Frozen Wind turbines. Is that your. position? Regardless, your State wanted to avoid Federal oversight, and your state did not winterize the Natural gas infrastructure, Or the Turbines, though they were a small part of the problem. The drop-off in gas power due to lack of winterization accounted for 5X the drop for the turbines. So the separation form teh other grids made it difficult to import power. Anyhow, You really need to correct the Wikipedia page, which wrongfully seems to impute that the deregulation, and lack of winterization a dn the difficulty of importing power were the issues.

You can rewrite it with your truth if you like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Yes, there is no question that Texas left the grid because of Federal regulations they did not want to comply with, which is very much a political stance. Don't like that? Not sure I can help.

Your demand that I am some left wing Texas h8er, and that shows much more about your leanings than mine. I point out the truth, and your political narrative requires you to attack me.

The truth is the truth , whether one is a commie, or a MAGA or any of the shades in between.

In most cases you are correct. I'm sure I'll be modded troll for this, but we're talking about Texas, where the power grid was largely influenced by politics. And for a lot of politicians, technical issues are almost irrelevant.

DDG "what's wrong with Texas' power grid", there are many interesting links.

Yup, And it's worse for the Turbine generating plants. Going from running a heavy load to essentially instantly a lot of the load disappearing is hell on turbines. People could think of it as going uphill in their car with the pedal to the metal, then shifting into neutral suddenly. The load on the engine drops, but at full throttle, it will rev as far as it can.

The Texas grid which is separate from the rest of the US has a size issue with balancing and peaking that ha shown up from time to time. Their grid collapse a few winters ago would (probably) not have happened if they were connected to the big grid like everyone else is.

What I'm seeing here is a very good possibility that this will end up being a year round problem for Texas.

Ahh, so we're dealing with repressed memories here...

Ah - Now I see where the Slashdot commie brigade gets their knowledge and "facts" about the USA. Their comments could be taken from that masterpiece. 8^0

I see my comment is at -1 troll now. I guess he is embarrassed the North Koreans had to rescue him, and now he has so much nutrition high quality food to eat, he is getting as fat as an American. Maybe that snow diet is what makes 'Murricans fat?

Perhaps I did not elucidate well enough. When gold goes on one of its wild rides, people buy it up at ever increasing prices. Then it craters. When Crypto goes on one of its wild rides, people buy it up at ever increasing prices, then it craters.

What is the similarity? A whole lot of dollars vaporize very quickly. And the present day trick of giving out paper certificates in lieu of the actual element, takes gold into a whole new level of irrational behavior, IMO.

Yes indeed, gold has an intrinsic value, both as an industrial element, but also as jewelry. Gold will never be worthless. Crypto on the other hand can become worthless. A lot of Crypto has become worthless. It is estimated that between 1,700 to 2,500 cryptocurrencies have just disappeared, no longer are in circulation, and have zero value or utility.

So much this.

AC thinks that the only thing that happens is going after solar panels.

Hmm, maybe that's a new way to protect trailers, the previous targets of tornados?

Who hurt you? Was your mamma scared by an American? Then you were rescued by North Koreans?

I'll weigh in with my standard "Fission power plants can be very safe. But not when built by humans, with managers, bean counters and others overruling the engineers." Recent examples . Fukushima should be happily providing power today, had it not been built in a place 100 percent certain to suffer Tsunami, 100 percent certain that Tsunami could occur that would overtop the Seawalls - although they probably saved a lot of money by not making them a meter or two higher. Then an emergency power system for running the pumps was deliberately placed where the saltwater that was going to ingress, would require another form of emergency power, which unfortunately didn't have a matching connector.

And the most recent from South Carolina - the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station adding two generators project. A 9 billion dollar debacle/scandal that has increased energy costs For North Carolinians, while never generating any power. People have gone to prison, more trials are ongoing.

Aside from all the other issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... most brought about from incompetence, Including electrical and safety systems designed by unlicensed people and zero engineer sign-off. So an excellent chance of problems.

And to cap it off, The Base Load Review Act, allowed all of the costs to be charged to electricity users. Still ongoing. The South Carolina Government has removed the baseload act, but the law is the law.

So I'll remain very skeptical that the country will be peppered with small reactors and no issues will result.