Everything’s bigger in Texas, even the power bill.
Gotta love capitalism.
particularly if you have lots of PVC cells to sell.
Gotta love unregulated capitalism.
WINNING! /s
Buttma taxes
Click bait story that doesn’t paint the complete picture.
What is the complete picture?
What are you, some kind of communist?
/S in case
Texans aren’t actually paying those increased prices, not directly anyway.
Even if they are, it isn’t necessarily bad thing. If the demand is going above supply you need to decrease demand or increase supply. If you increase cost you decrease demand.
However, the article above doesn’t give enough information to draw conclusions and it doesn’t even have sources.
Seriously, what are we missing?
They cropped the edges from the article photo.
The entire background. The article is vague and is designed to get people upset. They don’t give any more information other than some crazy sounding percentages.
Texas indeed has been blessed with much sunlight to make solar energy quite viable. This includes solar hot water heaters, and many trees to grow with vigour and bio-filtrate.
and many trees to grow with vigour
Not so vigorous when climate change causes a massive drought.
They have 591 km of coastline.
lots of salt water + lots of solar energy = lots of desalinated water
What do you do with all the leftover toxic brine?
Presumably it’s toxic mostly because of the concentration of salt.
If it can’t be used—and up north salt is used in winter for roads—it can be cleaned a bit, diluted with more seawater and discharged back into the ocean.
((the brine of 1 mass unit of seawater that’s been desalinated) + 20 units of regular seawater) ÷ 20 = 20 units of 5% saltier seawater discharged
You make it sound so safe and easy. It isn’t.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/desalination-pours-more-toxic-brine-ocean-previously-thought
What is their ratios-of-brine to seawater do they use?
It’s nice that you think you, without any experience in the matter, can solve problems with desalination that engineers in the field can’t, but I doubt you are actually able to.
I love me some bio-filtrate
shitty cruel systems texas likes to inflict on its citizens, the gun-totingest murican motherfuckers there are. kinda surprised they just bend over and take it
nothing but steers and queers in texas
my favourite scene of that movie is when that drill instructor got shot.
Greed and incompetience. No wonder Texas has been resistant to federal regulation and interconnect its power network with the rest of the country.
I live in Texas and have already received 2 notices this spring to conserve electricity. It has barely hit 90, and they aren’t able to keep up with demand. They get the same weather reports we have access to, up to 14-21 days, yet they can’t/won’t anticipate demand?
Fun fact, in case you weren’t aware; Texas pays bitcoin mining companies to shut off their rigs during peak demand.
Miners love this; in effect they can just threaten to mine bitcoin and get paid as much as they would have made actually mining bitcoin, but without the wear and tear on their expensive hardware. It’s a legalized extortion racket being enacted on the public purse.
Apologies if I just gave you even more reason to be angry.
didn’t mining costs just double? gl with that
shouldn’t there be an abundance of energy if its hotter?
How is that supposed to work?
I bet those businesses who relocated from Cali to Texas are loving those power prices.
Oh yeah, they already left Texas.
Besides that one time power goes out more often in California. In Texas you just have a temporary price surge you could treat like a blackout if you wanted to. The difference is it’s less often and you have a choice.
Maybe power is more reliable in central Texas, my family still has no electricity from the derecho that hit Houston. And they lose power frequently from all the heavy storms or hurricanes that pummel the gulf coast.
Like the time people were freezing to death during a power outage while the governor took a vacation to Cancún?
*Senator
Yeah, if you want a governor abandoning his people, look to Kevin Stitt (Oklahoma) last year when Tulsa was without power for about a week. Lieutenant Governor was out too, literally no one had any idea who was in charge of the state.
I haven’t had a power outage in about ten years, between SDG&E, PG&E, and SoCal Edison. Meanwhile, Texas has regular power outages. So just what are you on about?
Texans being Texans
uh oh, somebody did a capitalism
Lol so how’s that “deregulated freedom” working out for you, Texans?
Texas has also become a hotbed for bitcoin mining, adding to electricity demand, as the state’s deregulated power market and abundance of cheap natural gas became attractive to the energy-intensive sector.
Hmm.
That actually might make a lot of sense.
So, if Texas has inexpensive electricity most of the time, but also has occasional high price spikes…bitcoin mining is something where you do not need power now. Sure, you’re losing money on your hardware and space if it’s not running, but my guess is that bitcoin miners probably can do just fine shutting their systems down when prices rise above a certain point. That would tend to smooth out electricity prices.
I’d been trying to think of electricity users that could defer usage and use a lot of electricity, which are something that you want if you have wildly-varying demand and want to smooth it out, and I suppose that coin mining is actually probably a pretty good example.
What year in a row ia this?
I don’t know but it started making international news during the pandemic, so at least 5th.
