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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Last time I looked - admittedly a while
      - Texas made it VERY difficult for municipalities to set up
      broadband utilities, even in areas where no commercial player was
      interested.  Maybe that's catching up to them.<br>
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      Miles Fidelman<br>
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      Brandon Svec wrote:<br>
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              style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Mismanagement and
              poor planning are primarily to blame.  One can't just
              blame the weather.  We know weather will be bad and have
              extreme variations.  I am sure Texas politicians are
              considering what they could have done better right now.. <a
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 8:53
            AM John Von Essen <<a href="mailto:john@essenz.com"
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              just assumed most people in Texas have heat pumps- AC in
              the summer and minimal heating in the winter when needed.
              When the entire state gets a deep freeze, everybody is
              running those heat pumps non-stop, and the generation
              capacity simply wasn’t there. i.e. coal or natural gas
              plants have some turbines offline, etc.,. in the winter
              because historically power use is much much less. The odd
              thing is its been days now, those plants should be able to
              ramp back up to capacity - but clearly they haven’t.
              Blaming this on wind turbines is BS. In fact, if it
              weren’t for so many people in Texas with grid-tie solar
              systems, the situation would be even worse. 
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              <div>And of course, the real issue is Texas’ closed grid -
                any other state could pull in more power from neighbors.</div>
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                    <div>On Feb 15, 2021, at 11:34 PM, Cory Sell via
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                      <div>Ercot has already released actual
                        documentation of the outputs. Wind is NOT the
                        biggest loss here. Even if wind was operating at
                        100% capacity, we’d be in the same boat due to
                        gas and fossil fuel-related generation being
                        decimated. Estimated 4GW lost for wind doesn’t
                        make up for the 30GW+ estimated being lost from
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                      <div>I only interject because people are already
                        pointing their fingers at renewables being the
                        cause here and trying to pawn off the blame to
                        wind/solar to further their agendas to reduce
                        renewable energy R&D and adoption. Sure,
                        wind isn’t perfect, but looks like solution
                        relied on failed in a massive way.</div>
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                      On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:17 PM, Robert Jacobs
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                        <div>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
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                          From: NANOG <<a
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                          On Behalf Of Mark Tinka<br>
                          Sent: Monday, February 15, 2021 10:06 PM<br>
                          To: <a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org"
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                          Subject: Re: Texas internet connectivity
                          declining due to blackouts<br>
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                          On 2/16/21 04:14, Sean Donelan wrote:<br>
                          ><br>
                          > <a href="http://Poweroutage.us"
                            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Poweroutage.us</a>
                          posted a terrific map, showing the
                          jurisdictional <br>
                          > borders of the Texas power outages versus
                          the storm related power <br>
                          > outages elsewhere in the country.<br>
                          ><br>
                          > <a
                            href="https://twitter.com/PowerOutage_us/status/1361493394070118402"
                            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://twitter.com/PowerOutage_us/status/1361493394070118402</a><br>
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                          ><br>
                          > Sometimes infrastructure planning
                          failures are not due to "natural <br>
                          > hazards."<br>
                          <br>
                          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.<br>
                          <br>
                          Mark.<br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. 
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. 
In our lab, theory and practice are combined: 
nothing works and no one knows why.  ... unknown</pre>
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