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machoneman

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3. Scare tactics! We could have sunk at sea but no, we beached...

Reply to UpInArms (Original post)

Wed Feb 24, 2021, 10:40 PM

Feb 2021

Last edited Thu Feb 25, 2021, 02:31 PM - Edit history (1)

...the ship and only lost 100 lives. What Texazz bullshit!

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ERCOT: Texas Was 4 Minutes and 37 Seconds Away From a Blackout That Could Have Lasted Months [View all] UpInArms Feb 2021 OP

gee could this be self serving propganda to take our minds off what really happened? nt msongs Feb 2021 #1

Toxic Individualism. nt Xipe Totec Feb 2021 #2

Scare tactics! We could have sunk at sea but no, we beached... machoneman Feb 2021 #3

"Texas Was 4 Minutes and 37 Seconds Away From a Blackout" LudwigPastorius Feb 2021 #4

Yeah, that "fact" would need to be explained quite a bit more captain queeg Feb 2021 #6

Their presentation said that figure is based on a frequency stability issue caraher Feb 2021 #22

High V/Hz can damage major pieces of equipment on the grid due to over fluxing. texasfiddler Feb 2021 #23

Thanks for digging into it. That makes some sense. captain queeg Feb 2021 #25

"seems like they were operating a system lacking sufficient reserve capacity" caraher Feb 2021 #32

Grid measurements are pretty precise, for obvious reasons. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #12

At no point do they explain Miguelito Loveless Feb 2021 #5

High V/Hz ratio is the main reason. High V/Hz ratios over-flux transformers texasfiddler Feb 2021 #24

Ah, thank you Miguelito Loveless Feb 2021 #27

Crazy, right. OverBurn Feb 2021 #33

out of phase frequencies can damage generators. harumph Feb 2021 #7

Yep. They wanted to prevent damage to the turbine/generator blades dalton99a Feb 2021 #15

Thanks, Miguelito Loveless Feb 2021 #28

Saying "We narrowly avoided a worse disaster by choosing a better disaster" is a distraction RockRaven Feb 2021 #8

Data from ERCOT: dalton99a Feb 2021 #9

Great data. Thanks for posting. Some questions. Red Oak Feb 2021 #17

Why did the first generating plants go off line? Were they pumping up the price of power? Red Oak Feb 2021 #10

Balancing supply to demand is critical in the distribution of electric power. Demand got way out of mobeau69 Feb 2021 #11

Demand was double supply at the point of shutdown. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #14

Certainly the event as a whole was not fake scarcity Red Oak Feb 2021 #18

Ercot acknowledges 4:37 blackout scenario but Pas-de-Calais Feb 2021 #13

Ercot Sgent Feb 2021 #21

We had the answer 10 years ago susanr516 Feb 2021 #16

KICK! burrowowl Feb 2021 #19

Keep electing conservatives guys, see where that gets you. Initech Feb 2021 #20

The old "It could have been a lot worse" trick bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #26

Actully, it really Miguelito Loveless Feb 2021 #30

Not clueless, greedy sucking reich wingers is what they are. lark Feb 2021 #29

as a Texan who lived through this bullshit... Javaman Feb 2021 #31

I keep hearing this, "oh, it could have been much worse" RussBLib Feb 2021 #34

There's not much ERCOT can do Dopers_Greed Feb 2021 #35

ercot gives heavily to repukes. Javaman Feb 2021 #37

Insurance companies are going to the sue the pants off from ERCOT. roamer65 Feb 2021 #36