I highly doubt water mains never break in Russia.
In Russia, water main break you!
I highly doubt water mains never break in Russia.
In Russia, water main break you!
Trevor Noah has a show on the Texas outage. Fast-forward to 8:00, just before he explains how AOC can provide a new source of power for the state.
Come on, somebody! Watch the last minute of the YouTube and give Trevor a laughing-face emoticon.
It got so bad, one of the local utilities was begging its customers to cancel their service and get their power from another local provider. They are apparently unable to control their own rates (or would lose so much that they'd go out of business since their costs also fluctuate, I guess?). The rates skyrocketed to something $9k/kWh, I forget the exact rate, but it was crazy, as in people would be looking at $2-3k bills if their energy use stayed the same!I had read that the Texas power capacity, being deregulated, is very much based on using cost to keep supply and demand in check. When demand goes up the costs go up very quickly in order to decrease demand. That means that there is very little excess capacity to handle demand spikes created either by extreme heat or extreme cold. The power producers make most of their money when demand spikes and the prices paid by consumers spikes, so there is little to no incentive to have a power capacity buffer as the buffer would just decrease profits.
On top of that no economic incentive to make the system more hardened against extreme weather as we see here. Everything done on the cheap to maximize profits. Wind is just one example of things done on the cheap. Alaska depends a great deal on wind for it's electrical needs but you don't see the wind turbines freezing up in Alaska because they
have been made to withstand extreme cold.
Just another example of the failure of the free market to meeting the needs of the society.
Man, a foot or so more and it would have just gone down the sink.
Daily Mail?
Meanwhile, uninsulated natural gas lines are a significant contributor to the shortage of energy. But let’s let The Daily Mail tell us the “truth”.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-frozen/
Houston.
Those are socialist, regulated wind turbines. The wind turbines in Texas are free of commie oversight. Lets hear it for libertarian utopia.I don't think Canadian wind turbines freeze up--or at least I haven't heard of such a thing.
Those are socialist, regulated wind turbines. The wind turbines in Texas are free of commie oversight. Lets hear it for libertarian utopia.I don't think Canadian wind turbines freeze up--or at least I haven't heard of such a thing.
Those are socialist, regulated wind turbines. The wind turbines in Texas are free of commie oversight. Lets hear it for libertarian utopia.I don't think Canadian wind turbines freeze up--or at least I haven't heard of such a thing.
FREEEEEDUMB!!
So, Cruz took his family to Cancun today while his constituents freeze to death b/c of policies he and his party support.
Also, there's this.
thenBut for oil and gas producers that have managed to keep production going, this is proving to be a big payday. Jerry Jones, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Cowboys, appears to be one of the beneficiaries.
Comstock Resources Inc., a shale driller that operates in Texas and Louisiana, told investors on an earnings call this week that the surge in natural gas prices was providing it with a major — albeit almost certainly temporary — financial boost. The company is publicly traded but Jones holds a majority of the shares.
Ted Cruz says leaving Texas during winter disaster was "obviously a mistake" as he returns from Cancún.
First spotted at an airport by a social media user who posted his photo, there was an immediate outcry overnight that a U.S. senator would travel out of the state amid the worst storm in many Texans' lifetimes.
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"I was trying to be a dad, and all of us have made decisions — when you've got two girls who have been cold for two days and haven't had heater power, and they're saying 'Hey, look we don't have school why don't we go, let's get out of here.' I think there are a lot of parents that would be like, 'Look, if I can do this great.' That's what I wanted to do," he told the TV station.
"[But] really from the moment I sat on the plane, I began really second-guessing that decision, and saying 'Look, I know why we're doing this, but I've also got responsibilities, and it had been my intention to be able to work remotely, to be on the phone, to be on the internet, to be on Zoom, to be engaged, but I needed to be here and that's why I came back."
I still don't believe it. (I am talking about major water lines)What you are willing to believe isn't all too relevant.I find that hard to believe.
I was talking about major water lines. The ones which are at least 5" thick, They are deep and they are PE in new construction.Generally water pipes are prone to fail at its point of greatest weakness. It doesn't all need to freeze, just one part... like say where a valve is located.Maybe near house, but not main pipes. You can easily damage it by driving over it or doing yard work.
Regardless, 6 inches is deep enough to not freeze in one week of slightly subzero temperature.
You do realize that our infrastructure wasn't built in 2010, right? While new construction involves PVC, it hasn't always been PVC. Water lines in the US are made of all sorts of materials, including lead.And main pipes are plastic anyway.
Now you are going to tell me that main valve was on a second floor?It all depends on where the valves are located.It's clear that second floor copper piping froze up and burst in these videos. Main valve is fine. This is stupid. Whole houses collapse because they did not know that water supply should be cut off.
And I highly doubt water mains never break in Russia.