you're right - I still encounter numerous people blaming the grid failure on renewables that I read it into your reply.

Though my snow & ice covered solar panels and PowerWall kept my house running.

Electrical generation failures were widespread such as Texas natural gas production dropped in half

A large portion of the decrease in natural gas production was from declines in Texas, which fell over 10 Bcf/d during the February 8–17 period

The South Texas Nuclear Power Station, about 60 miles southwest of me, lost half it's output

One of two reactors shut down at the South Texas Nuclear Power Station an hour southwest of Houston, knocking out about half of its 2,700 megawatts of generating capacity.

Also part of the natural gas failures were self induced A giant flaw in Texas blackouts: It cut power to gas supplies

Producers who depend on electricity to power their operations were left with no way to pump natural gas. And that gas was needed more than ever to generate electricity.

And despite some frozen turbines, wind was generating more than expected at the start of the outage:

Power supplied by wind (green) is coming in ahead of forecasts. ... An ERCOT director told Bloomberg that problems were widespread across generating sources, including coal, natural gas, and even nuclear plants.

So blaming the grid failure on renewables is is either ignorance or deceitfulness.

The longest outage I've experienced was 3+ days after Beryl blew through the Houston metro. I slept in my Model 3 to have AC during the night, without any risk of being asphyxiated in my garage, then recharging it during the day from my panels.

Just noticed the 11717 MW was lower than the 17,000 so took a closer look, while that axis article was updated August 14, 2026 it used data from 2024:

according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s State Energy Data System for 2024

More recent data from July 2026:

Texas has now passed California to lead the country, at 17,082 MW against 15,698 MW.

Texas has 7,905 MW of battery storage, putting us at #2 in the US behind California's 11,717 MW, and I'm paying 12 cents a kWh.

Check the Previous Day on ERCOT's Fuel Mix you'll see the same thing is happening in Texas, though ERCOT's graph shows the sun in orange instead of yellow and our battery storage is shown in maroon instead of blue.

Their latest Flash model goes live tomorrow. Price for cached tokens halved, other prices lowered. Since it outperforms their latest Pro model they will reroute pro requests to it until the pro version launches. It does seem to be a frontier model in every way except price.

About 90% of doctors consume alcohol.

TheMiddleRoad was making a joke about the "cadence" cadence.

I've timed it - 3 seconds to plug in, 3 seconds to unplug.

I have a 14-30 extension cord so could plug into the 240V dryer outlet in the house if faster charging was needed, but it never was. I use the extension cord during road trips, like this one to Fort Benning in 2018 for my nephew's graduation from basic training.

I've noticed you like to spread a lot of EV FUD - do you work in the oil industry or do you just like exposing your ignorance?

Back in 2018 when I got my first Model 3 I used the lowly 120V outlet in my garage for 1.44 kW charging for the first 6 months without any problems. Even if I returned from a weekend trip close it empty it was OK as I'd gain enough extra range each night that I'd be back to full after a few nights.

I then switched to a free-nights electric plan and had a 240V outlet installed for 7.68 kW charging to make sure it would finish toping off the car during the free period.

For me the visualization of direct collapse black hole formation is that there's still a huge mass of gas falling in, at the boundary of the new black hole nearly dense enough to direct collapse itself. The blowback would compress the inflow over the density edge and you get a whole cloud of black holes.

It's pretty cool that they're seeing where the supermassive black holes come from. The models of what's happening in there must be amazing.

Timeline hopper here, just through the gate from funny laugh lady land. Believe it or not in that line Musk is still the richest man ever over there - richer even - but he's a woke social librul because he knows which side of his bread has butter on it.

Notably, President Harris also prefers rockets that will launch to rockets that will not for some reason.

But don't eat the fish. Just in case.

>[T]he oligopoly seems to be facing the first credible challenge to its capacity discipline...

What an interesting way to describe that. A disciplined way, you might say.

Watching was a thrill ride from beginning to end. Still issues with Booster landing but they will sort it out. The re-entry tiles did great. The satellites did great. Ship did so well they will try for a catch next time, if there's nothing counter in the flight data.

Hardware rich development proves itself again. The next one is built and being fitted out for a launch just a couple months away. Behind it, the factory has begun several more.

It's hard to believe they started building this on a beach in tents, with a flying water tower.