gwoplock

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by gwoplock 6y ago
> So are you claiming Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri have experience state wide blackouts similar to those found in Texas in recent days? Yes. That grid operator did have to implement EEA3 load shedding (rolling blackouts).
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by gwoplock 6y ago
> none of which were implemented by ERCOT. The NERC recommendations are requirements in Texas. There is the requirement to plan for extreme winter weather events in Texas but not in NERC.
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by gwoplock 6y ago
Yes, those are recommendations that weren't implemented. Anywhere. The issues identified in 2011 for Texas caused issues in the Eastern Interconnect in 2014 for the north and 2018 in the south. In 2018 many of the same recommendations
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by gwoplock 6y ago
> Now that statement would make sense if 'extreme cold weather' had caused problems in other parts of the USA. In 2014 the polar vortex brought power down across the Eastern Interconnection (citation 13) and again in 2018 (cita
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by gwoplock 6y ago
Yes there is a lack of regulation around winter weatherization. However, this is not a Texas only problem, in fact the PUCT requirements for weatherization exceed the current NERC standards and are similar to the new requirements that shoul
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by gwoplock 6y ago
It's not just Texas. it's the entire south and sometimes more. In the NERC report from the 2014 polar vortex, it looks like 20-30GW were lost due to fuel shortages even in the north east.
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by gwoplock 6y ago
The thing is, Texas winter weatherization standards exceed the NERC standards. Effectively the guidelines that NERC put out have been codified by the PUCT as requirements that are audited every year.
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by gwoplock 6y ago
Maybe. Oklahoma, and other surrounding states have been dealing with rolling blackouts but on a smaller scale. I would wait for the NERC report on this.
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The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem(garrettbattaglia.com)
296 points by gwoplock 6y ago|529 comments
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by gwoplock 7y ago
As a ham operator this seriously disappoints me. The way it sounds the 2m ham band was targeted because it is world wide. Taking it is the easy way out for the producers. The 2m band is the most prolific uhf/vhf band. Next would be 70c
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by gwoplock 7y ago
> Use self-hosted CAPTCHA with simpler solutions My favorite CAPTCHA is the one on the Arch Linux forms but I realize this cant be used many places. > What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha1sum|sed 's/\W/&
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by gwoplock 7y ago
> > Why make me solve a Captcha to pay utility bills? Is there some underground group of deviants going around surreptitiously paying other people's utility bills? > Sound like a strange place to have a captcha indeed. What in