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On 3/1/2025 9:00 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 3/1/2025 10:24 PM, William Hyde wrote:
>> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> On 3/1/2025 2:01 PM, William Hyde wrote:
>>> ...
>>>>> BTW, Texas, the King of the so-called renewables, will not allow 
>>>>> more than 30% of the so-called renewables in the electric 
>>>>> generation mix for ERCOT.  Above 30% is the loss of control region 
>>>>> for ERCOT.
>>>>
>>>> Well, in the first place the expertise of Texas power regulators is 
>>>> open to question.
>>>>
>>>> But even if the upper limit for them is in fact 30%, that's a lot. 
>>>> Throw in some nuclear power and the greenhouse emissions from 
>>>> electrical generation are dramatically reduced.
>>>>
>>>> I live in a promise where on any given day at most 10% of the 
>>>> generation comes from fossil fuels, the rest being Hydro, Nuclear, 
>>>> and to a much lesser extent wind and solar.
>>>>
>>>> William Hyde
>>>
>>> Right now at this moment, Texas is using electric power from:
>>> 1. Solar:       23,469 MW
>>> 2. Wind:         2,272 MW
>>> 3. Hydro:            0 MW
>>> 4. Batteries:      237 MW
>>> 5. Other:            0 MW
>>> 6. Natural Gas: 11,480 MW
>>> 7. Coal:         5,278 MW
>>> 8. Nuclear:      5,107 MW
>>> =========================
>>> Total:          47,843 MW
>>>
>>> I think that I was wrong about the max of the so-called renewables. 
>>> The max of 30% may just apply to wind power since the wind power ebbs 
>>> and flows with the wind.  When cold fronts come through Texas, the 
>>> wind turbines will actually go to zero power as they rotate the wind 
>>> turbines to face the wind, not a very quick process.
>>
>> That sounds more reasonable, and directly contradicts Christy.
>>
>> I know that LBJ was first elected to congress so that he could obtain 
>> legal permissions to carry on with a flood control/hydro power dam 
>> that had been begun illegally.  I guess that if it's still around, 
>> that dam is not contributing 0.5%.
>>
>> By the way, I live in a province, not a promise.  Maybe it's a 
>> promising province.  So they have been saying my entire life, anyway.
>>
>> William Hyde
> 
> Most of the hydroelectric dams in Texas run less than 20% capacity 
> factor per year.  We do not get enough rain in Texas to keep them 
> running at full power for very long.  The biggest dam in Texas that I 
> know of is the dam north of Sherman, Texas on the Red River, two 40 MW 
> turbines.
> 
I remember that the Hoover Dam in the US considers water users, mostly 
farmers, as their "customers".  Generating electricity is just a little 
bonus.

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