Re: Build servers going offline due to inclement weather

On 16 Feb 2021, at 23:25, Richard Bonomo TDS personal wrote: Clearly, Texas needs new nuclear power plants! Or they could just winterize the ones they have. e.g. there's a nuclear plant south of Houston that is offline because its cooling water is currently ice. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult

Re: Build servers going offline due to inclement weather

On 16 Feb 2021, at 22:01, Peter West wrote: Hi Ryan, That’s interesting about the natural gas supplies. I’m surprised that Texas does not have even two days worth of gas in storage. Maybe that had all been sold to Mexico. Considering that Russia supplies (from Siberia) significant quantitie

Re: Build servers going offline due to inclement weather

> On 17 Feb 2021, at 12:25 pm, Richard Bonomo TDS personal > wrote: > > > Clearly, Texas needs new nuclear power plants! > > During the Blizzard of 1978, coal barges were frozen in the Ohio River. Ohio > (and the eastern grid in general) managed to keep things > going

Re: Build servers going offline due to inclement weather

Clearly, Texas needs new nuclear power plants! During the Blizzard of 1978, coal barges were frozen in the Ohio River. Ohio (and the eastern grid in general) managed to keep things going because places like Wisconsin had enough nuclear power plants in those days (no longer, though) to take up

Re: Build servers going offline due to inclement weather

[ Power cuts in Texas ] Amazing what you can learn here :-) Seriously, I really feel for you guys; I've seen the stuff on TV, and, well... -- Dave

Re: Build servers going offline due to inclement weather

Hi Ryan, That’s interesting about the natural gas supplies. I’m surprised that Texas does not have even two days worth of gas in storage. Maybe that had all been sold to Mexico. Considering that Russia supplies (from Siberia) significant quantities of natural gas to Europe, with plans for a do

Re: Build servers going offline due to inclement weather

On Feb 16, 2021, at 18:38, Peter West wrote: > On 16 Feb 2021, at 11:15 pm, Todd Doucet wrote: > >>> The rest of the contiguous United States shares either the east or west >>> power grid, but most of Texas uses its own separate grid managed by ERCOT. >>> Unfortunately right now most of Texa

Re: Build servers going offline due to inclement weather

The problem is the dependency on windmills. Texas has 25Gw (nameplate only) of wind generation. 12Gw was frozen out (as of a day ago.) On Monday morning, ERCOT wholesale prices hit the cap of $9,000 per Mw-hr (average $25). This story is being played out in Europe, particularly Germany, during t

Re: Build servers going offline due to inclement weather

> The rest of the contiguous United States shares either the east or west power > grid, but most of Texas uses its own separate grid managed by ERCOT. > Unfortunately right now most of Texas is very cold and everybody is using > more electricity running their heaters. At the same time, the wea

Re: Build servers going offline due to inclement weather

On Feb 15, 2021, at 17:34, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Feb 15, 2021, at 02:42, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> The MacPorts build servers are located in Austin, TX which is experiencing >> its coldest temperatures since 1989, which is driving record electricity >> usage, which has prompted the local powe