Re: Climate models are wrong.

On 3/1/2025 9:00 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 3/1/2025 10:24 PM, William Hyde wrote:

Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 3/1/2025 2:01 PM, William Hyde wrote:
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BTW, Texas, the King of the so-called renewables, will not allow more than 30% of the so-called renewables in the electric generation mix for ERCOT.  Above 30% is the loss of control region for ERCOT.

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Well, in the first place the expertise of Texas power regulators is open to question.
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But even if the upper limit for them is in fact 30%, that's a lot. Throw in some nuclear power and the greenhouse emissions from electrical generation are dramatically reduced.
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I live in a promise where on any given day at most 10% of the generation comes from fossil fuels, the rest being Hydro, Nuclear, and to a much lesser extent wind and solar.
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William Hyde

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Right now at this moment, Texas is using electric power from:
1. Solar:       23,469 MW
2. Wind:         2,272 MW
3. Hydro:            0 MW
4. Batteries:      237 MW
5. Other:            0 MW
6. Natural Gas: 11,480 MW
7. Coal:         5,278 MW
8. Nuclear:      5,107 MW
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Total:          47,843 MW
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I think that I was wrong about the max of the so-called renewables. The max of 30% may just apply to wind power since the wind power ebbs and flows with the wind.  When cold fronts come through Texas, the wind turbines will actually go to zero power as they rotate the wind turbines to face the wind, not a very quick process.

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That sounds more reasonable, and directly contradicts Christy.
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I know that LBJ was first elected to congress so that he could obtain legal permissions to carry on with a flood control/hydro power dam that had been begun illegally.  I guess that if it's still around, that dam is not contributing 0.5%.
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By the way, I live in a province, not a promise.  Maybe it's a promising province.  So they have been saying my entire life, anyway.
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William Hyde

 Most of the hydroelectric dams in Texas run less than 20% capacity factor per year.  We do not get enough rain in Texas to keep them running at full power for very long.  The biggest dam in Texas that I know of is the dam north of Sherman, Texas on the Red River, two 40 MW turbines.
 

I remember that the Hoover Dam in the US considers water users, mostly farmers, as their "customers".  Generating electricity is just a little bonus.
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