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Dog Ate Windmill's Quota

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Texazistan is proudly, the most Windmilled state in U.S.S.A. By far! That's just the way Texazistan is wired, to be first in Windmill purchase capacity. However, this purchase capacity has yet to meet Windmill's quota percentage of power delivered to the BIG Grid of Texazistan known as ERCOT.

The first Biden Administration's winter in Texazistan, when Windmills failed to make their quota for ERCOT, real people lost their lives.

In ERCOT’s first preliminary report on the causes of the power crisis, released in early April [2020]. the grid operator included a chart that appeared to show power generation losses from wind as just slightly smaller than natural gas generation losses that week. But that analysis used the capacity of the state’s wind turbines to generate electricity, not what wind turbines would have actually generated if not for the outages.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/28 ... tage-wind/

There's the capacity of Windmills to produce electricity, and then, there's reality. It's not Windmills' fault for not making close to capacity quota in severe inclement weather. "No power source to ERCOT should be expected to deliver quota capacity in such weather-created emergencies," the Commissar Legal Representative of Windmill explained to the citizens of Texazistan. "More windmills are needed to produce the original projections of Windmill's quota to ERCOT, in order to better meet the unrealistic electricity demands of the people of Texazistan through current summer heat wave."

No one in Texazistan, or ERCOT, could have predicted that summer in Texazistan was going to require enough electricity to air condition the famous Texazistanian Circle of Hell. Nobody can be a mind reader on transient seasonal weather patterns and expect quota delivery of power to the Big Grid: ERCOT.

Wind power -- a key source of electricity in Texas -- is being sidelined just when the Lone Star State needs it most, with turbines generating less than a 10th of what they’re capable of.

A scorching heat wave is pushing the Texas grid to the brink. Power demand is surging as people crank up air conditioners. But meanwhile, wind speeds have fallen to extremely low levels, and that means the state’s fleet of turbines is at just 8% of their potential output.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... t-needs-it

Can Windmills produce the wind necessary to meet an unrealistic potential output quota? Do not think of blaming Windmill for not meeting irresponsible weather capacity quota expectations. Blame the D-O-G who ran off with the wind.

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jackalopelipsky wrote:
7/21/2022, 11:47 am
 
Too Expensive.

"A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tons of steel, requiring 170 tons of coking coal and 300 tons of iron ore, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons. A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it."
—Thomas Homer-Dixon - Carbon Shift
 
Never been done right before.
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Wasteful.
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Inefficient
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Requires oil.
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Poses danger to Tractor Barn #2.
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