Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

Tue Feb 16 12:14:50 UTC 2021

I agree. Germany spent well over 200 billion Euros on wind and solar subsidies and over 85% of the country's energy consumption is still non-renewable. Wind power is randomly generated. I really don't to depend it for either personal or business needs.

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Subject: RE: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

How about letting us Texans have more natural gas power plants or even let the gas be delivered to the plants we have so they can provide more power in an emergency. Did not help that 20% of our power is now wind which of course in an ice storm like we are having is shut off... Lots of issues and plenty of politics involved here..

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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+rjacobs=pslightwave.com at nanog.org> On Behalf Of Mark Tinka
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2021 10:06 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

On 2/16/21 04:14, Sean Donelan wrote:
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> Poweroutage.us posted a terrific map, showing the jurisdictional
> borders of the Texas power outages versus the storm related power
> outages elsewhere in the country.
>
> https://twitter.com/PowerOutage_us/status/1361493394070118402
>
>
> Sometimes infrastructure planning failures are not due to "natural
> hazards."

I suppose having some kind of home backup solution wouldn't be too bad right now, even though you may still not get access to services. But at least, you can brew some coffee, and charge your pulse oximetre.

Mark.

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