Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds

On 7/18/2024 7:49 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 7/18/2024 12:50 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 7/18/2024 12:15 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 18/07/2024 07.50, John Savard wrote:

On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:18:48 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
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That is awesome compared to Hurricane Ike which had major areas
without power for up to six weeks.

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Hurricane Ike destroyed stuff that had to be replaced.
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I presume this outage is due to too many people turning on their air
conditioning at once, so all they have to do is flip the breakers.

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You somehow missed hearing anything about Beryl?
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Beryl>
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"[...]  The second named storm, first hurricane, and first major hurricane
of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, Beryl broke many meteorological
records for the months of June and July, primarily for its unusual location,
intensity, and longevity."

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We have been living the dream of Beryl down here in Houston for almost two weeks now.  Lived on the genny for four days.  Walking outside, it was a concert of genny's in all directions.
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Partly because Texas refuses to be connected to the rest of the North American power grid....

Sigh.  The Texas Grid alone is not much smaller than the east and west power grids that have their own problems.  Tying lots of things together is not always a good solution.
BTW, the Texas grid is tied to the eastern, northern, and Mexican power grids through several DC interconnections in Oklahoma and ???.  The amount of power that can be transferred either direction is around 1,000 MW the last time I looked.
    https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
We (ERCOT) were pulling 600 MW off the eastern grid today after the solar power plants stopped making power between 6pm and 8pm.  The solar power shutdown is becoming quite a problem with 20,000 MW at noon with a clear sky and then the total fade away from 6 pm to 8 pm.  Today it popped the price from $25/MWh to $120/MWh.  I have seen it as much as $2,000/MWh when the dusk wind did not come up and the wind turbines stayed at 3,000 MW and did not move up to 10,000+ MW as they usually do.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
Lynn