If there’s something that gets me heated is telling me to turn down the ac between a certain time. My AC can’t even keep the house cold during the day and i just changed it put new everything and insulation.
I don’t want to be part of the National grid but i do want reliability. Of which there’s none.
I was freezing for the entire thing along with my parents, our furnace broke and our pipes burst making the temperature inside colder. We’re having the same issues and it’s not even catastrophic yet. One little thunder storm after the drought shut the city down for hours.
And we forget that adults and children died frozen in their homes.
I want the people we vote for to do something not just collect a check.
Good points. Only thing I differ with you on is having
the life line of being plugged into the national grid to give
the Texas consumers more reliability in the case of some
unforeseen event or failure. We are the United States.
The Silliness of any independent grid has got to stop.
Just curious what your opposition is to the national grid? Even for emergency back up?
Our power went out last week one day from like 3pm-8pm. Thankfully we were not at home. The irony? I was in Vegas, the middle of the desert with higher temperatures and every massive casino lit up and cooled to 70 degrees with no issues.
Who did the work? Cause you got screwed…or there’s a mechanical issue. You sure it’s cooling right? I had a new install 2 months ago and about 5 days later it wasn’t cooling right. Turns out there was a pinhole in the Freon line and it was slowly losing the ability to cool.
There should be 14-15 degree differential between air intake grill temperature and room air vent
temperature. If system is not doing that, something is wrong. Losing freon, air leaks in AC ductwork
in the attic, or something.
Other thing I heard about is providing shade for outside AC units if they are in direct sun. Some folks putting large patio. umbrellas to shade the unit. Exercise caution to keep it secure and far enough away from unit…think they said 5-6 feet above it.
Do you not understand the concept of how to normalize data when comparing things that are not like ? Posting articles from May 2021 that reference 2019 data really
don’t help your position.
some folks just can’t face the fact that China is not buying the man made climate change hypothesis. I would like to know how much CO2 all those Chinese exhale by just breathing.
Lets think thru this. Typically our energy demands are lowest at night when, surprisingly, the sun sets and temperatures drop. Best time of the day to charge up a car. And if in Texas, at nights is when wind generated electricity is at its peak.
Except this is the reality : 344 vs 135
Which number is bigger ?
China now has 344 GW worth of wind turbine electrical generation. During the same period, the US grew by approximately 12.5 GW for a total capacity of 135 GW.
China wants to become a Saudi Arabia of renewables. In March, Beijing stated that it aims to create 450 GW of solar and wind capacity in the Gobi and other desert regions. China is capitalizing on the vast landscapes of Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia in conjunction with offshore turbines for electricity generation. For comparison, President Biden has pledged to create 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030.
Disregarding profit and loss may get you someplace. China built more offshore wind turbines in 2021 than every other country did in the past five years. It installed 55.8 GW worth of turbines in 2021, beating its own 2020 record of 52 GW— a 19.4% increase. China now has 344 GW worth of wind turbine electrical generation. During the same period, the US grew by approximately 12.5 GW for a total capacity of 135 GW.
For years, Beijing has been comprehensively investing in wind power. The US can expect major ramifications if Chinese companies further expand in this critical market.
I think they have invested more into carbon capture than us as well. Assuming those projects are still in progress. They aren’t doing this stuff out of the goodness of their hearts, they see it as being the financially smart move going forward.
