r/facepalm Aug 27 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Welp

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u/TheLoneGunman559 Aug 27 '24

Don't worry! Texas a has safety net in place for these kinds of things! They were prepared!

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u/Pokemaster131 Aug 27 '24

The safety net is woven from the bootstraps they keep telling us to pull ourselves up by.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '24

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u/TheLoneGunman559 Aug 27 '24

Oh yeah, highly diverse energy production. Too bad it crashes as soon as a light dusting of snow starts falling.

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u/Gainztrader235 Aug 27 '24

It certainly was not a light dusting of snow but go on with your misinformation.

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u/DeVliegendeBrabander Aug 27 '24

Idk how it’s relevant to that comment but also

Mildly winter-like weather:

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u/Lucid-Machine Aug 27 '24

Oh good. I pray for you to avoid heat and freezing conditions. It won't do anything but I'm doing my part.

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u/Gainztrader235 Aug 27 '24

They do just fine lol.

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u/Lucid-Machine Aug 27 '24

Lol yeah, until they don't.

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u/Gainztrader235 Aug 27 '24

Like every other state that has a 100+ year storm?

I’d encourage you to look up outages by each state…

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u/Lucid-Machine Aug 27 '24

Yeah Texas ain't looking good by regular Ole michigan standards. Ahahahaha. You must live in a privileged area, while your people suffer. Weird flex.

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u/Gainztrader235 Aug 27 '24

Buddy, Michigan has the second most major outages of any states in 20-21 and doesn’t share the population or demand of Texas. This just became comical.

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u/Gainztrader235 Aug 27 '24

Sure and how does that compare to every other state of similar size that has hurricanes, tornadoes, and winter events. As well or better.

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u/Gainztrader235 Aug 27 '24

Texas is a leading state in green energy production, surpassing many others in the U.S. In 2023, Texas produced over 154,000 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of renewable energy, primarily from wind and solar sources, making it the largest producer of wind energy in the country and second only to California in solar energy production.

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u/Gainztrader235 Aug 27 '24

My original claim was diverse energy production and priced well.

Reliability is problematic as it doesn’t adjust for geographical challenges. Instead it just accounts for “outages”.

Hard to compare states that deal with natural disasters regularly versus normal operations.

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u/Aggravating_Slip_566 Aug 28 '24

I'm sorry but if you are supposedly a leader of the free world you should plan for unreliable situation's they get enough federal funding to fix any Short comings! I had 2 few seconds outages, didn't even need to call cuz it came right back on, it was so short that the oven clock didn't even say PF that's power failure in case you aren't sure? Today it was 113° yes it was defiantly struggling and that's because I'm on the 3rd floor & the central air isn't cutting it and I'm running a portable AC unit also, oh the few Sec power outage was in 2023 TX sucks