Re: [MBZ] OT Texas wind turbines

2021-02-16 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
>Natural gas well heads never freeze, and that never drives the cost of >electricity into the stratosphere. Oh, wait a minute: The reason the Nat gas pumping stations died is because instead of using the natural gas in the pipeline as a fuel source (as they did in the past) they went "green"

Re: [MBZ] OT Texas wind turbines

2021-02-16 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
LOL, not that kind of gym. What I do is more like crossfit. We do 10 exercises a session, each for 45 seconds, then a 2 minute break and repeat 3 times total.For instance yesterday we did things like a 90 degree plate fly where you lay on your back with one arm straight up and the other off to

Re: [MBZ] OT Texas wind turbines

2021-02-16 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
The solution to that is to hook all the exercise bikes up to inverters and make your own power at the gym. On Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 6:57 AM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > LOL I love the Bee. > Yesterday at the gym we were talking about the possibility of not having >

Re: [MBZ] OT Texas wind turbines

2021-02-16 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
LOL I love the Bee. Yesterday at the gym we were talking about the possibility of not having class on Wednesday due to there not being power. I suggested that we had the technology to make that not a problem which prompted a discussion of backup options like candles.I escalated with an oil

Re: [MBZ] OT Texas wind turbines

2021-02-16 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
Yeah. I'm guessing Texans wouldn't mind a little public utility regulation right now. On Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 6:11 PM Meade Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > https://babylonbee.com/news/people-who-moved-to-texas-from-california-finally-feeling-at-home-now-that-power-is-out >

Re: [MBZ] OT Texas wind turbines

2021-02-16 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
Because traditional energy is so reliable, right? Natural gas well heads never freeze, and that never drives the cost of electricity into the stratosphere. Oh, wait a minute:

Re: [MBZ] OT Texas wind turbines

2021-02-15 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
No, right on. On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 8:35 PM Rick Knoble via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >Clean energy can't keep up with climate change! >We need more clean > energy! > > Yep. Thorium. The REAL clean energy. > To bad most politicians in charge of such things are absolute

Re: [MBZ] OT Texas wind turbines

2021-02-15 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
>Clean energy can't keep up with climate change! >We need more clean energy! Yep. Thorium. The REAL clean energy. To bad most politicians in charge of such things are absolute morons, controlled by and for lobbiests, and not the good of the citizenry. Once in a while the politicians make a

Re: [MBZ] OT Texas wind turbines

2021-02-15 Thread Peter Frederick via Mercedes
I would guess it's pretty dangerous to operate them with unbalanced blades. And icing will greatly reduce power output, just like airplane wings lose lift with icing. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To

Re: [MBZ] OT Texas wind turbines

2021-02-15 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
https://babylonbee.com/news/people-who-moved-to-texas-from-california-finally-feeling-at-home-now-that-power-is-out People Who Moved To Texas From California Finally Feeling At Home Now That Power Is Out - Max Charleston SC On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 8:02 PM Buggered Benzmail via

Re: [MBZ] OT Texas wind turbines

2021-02-15 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Clean energy can't keep up with climate change! We need more clean energy! - Max Charleston SC On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 8:02 PM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Nearly half of Texas' installed wind power generation capacity has been > offline because