txlpo78

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by txlpo78 6y ago
> I don't know of a single enterprise customer that doesn't have their data replicated to two datacenters, and then backed up to some other medium (tape or disk-based backup appliance) for anything business critical. Longtime c
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by txlpo78 6y ago
Almost certainly not. AFAIK the technology to do street-level imagery from satellites is still mostly only on government spy satellites, and certainly isn’t cheap enough to put on thousands of nearly-disposable sats. The type of imagery you
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by txlpo78 6y ago
Elon himself has stated that Starlink is not intended to and should not be seen as a competitor to traditional terrestrial ISPs. It’s meant to supplement people in rural and possibly exurban areas, but it will not be breaking the monopolies
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by txlpo78 6y ago
Did you misread my comment? I didn’t say this event was due to Mother Nature, and the entire second half is specifically about how the Austin Energy grid is mismanaged and victim to cut corners.
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by txlpo78 6y ago
Lol, this could not be a more perfect example of exactly what I’m talking about. Nowhere in my comment did I say that Texas politicians are not to blame (in fact, I said the opposite) and yet here you come riding in to “remind me” of some a
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by txlpo78 6y ago
Beaumont has indeed been subject to blackouts. They’re covered by MISO and were under EEA Level 2 and rolling blackouts, and the area is currently under a boil water notice. They had ~30,000 customers without power at one point. For compari
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by txlpo78 6y ago
MISO, the grid that covers parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and more also had to do this: https://www.entergynewsroom.com/news/entergy-forced-initiate...
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by txlpo78 6y ago
For reference, the Laredo, Railroad, and Eagle Pass ties are all connections to Mexico’s power grid. They’ve been at zero most of this week because Mexico is also dealing with major power outages along the border, and so they don’t have any
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by txlpo78 6y ago
http://www.ercot.com/news/releases/show/225369 > the Midwest went into a power emergency of their own, and ERCOT was no longer able to import approximately 600 MW.
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by txlpo78 6y ago
I’m in Austin and I have to agree. The media and especially social media would have you believe that the literal apocalypse happened this week (if you dare, go read r/Austin and witness how many people are having ragefits insisting the
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by txlpo78 6y ago
You asked if extreme cold weather had caused problems in states other than Texas. It did, and I commented so. But if you want to play “move the goalposts”, I’m not going to bother trying to discuss something with you that you obviously have
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by txlpo78 6y ago
I have been amazed, and also disappointed, by the amount of people that want this to be the fault of “stupid conservative Texas” and absolutely refuse to even entertain the idea that anything other than “Texas is dumb” could have been a c
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by txlpo78 6y ago
> Now that statement would make sense if 'extreme cold weather' had caused problems in other parts of the USA. Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri all had blackouts this week. The SPP had to stop sharing electricity wit
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by txlpo78 6y ago
> although the interconnect bandwidth was fully utilized, we need solid data on whether the neighboring states facing similar struggles could spare significantly more capacity. If not, then having more interconnect bandwidth would not ha
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by txlpo78 6y ago
The Texas producers all currently exceed the national-level recommendations for winterization. Also AFAIK, the natural gas providers are subject to federal regulations (they are not part of ERCOT, unlike the generating stations that use t
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by txlpo78 6y ago
Exactly. The DC ties with the other grids are small and can only import <1 GW, but even if they were larger it wouldn’t have mattered much in this case. TX was pulling 600 MW from the Eastern grid but even that had to be shut off because
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by txlpo78 6y ago
Nope, if you even took five seconds to read up on how the OMSes at power utilities work, you’d know this isn’t the case. Utility companies are not even close to having their grids fully automatic, and most OMSes are manually updated by hu
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by txlpo78 6y ago
Do you not realize that utility providers outage maps are updated based on crowdsourced information from customers? And as I mentioned in my comment, utility providers do not consider blackouts due to capacity constraints to be “outages”, a
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by txlpo78 6y ago
The site you are referencing is a crowdsourced site. It takes five seconds of looking at the numbers to see that it has incomplete data. Most major public utilities are saying that they are not tracking these storm-related blackouts as “o
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by txlpo78 6y ago
Did anyone make that claim? No. Go re-read my comment and try again.
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by txlpo78 6y ago
MISO does not have the capacity either. Sections of eastern Texas, such as Orange, are under MISO, and they too have been dealing with blackouts due to lack of capacity. Parts of Louisiana under MISO are also being told that they will see b
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by txlpo78 6y ago
> when was the last time NY literally had no power? They benefit from being highly connected. Do you not remember the blackouts of 2003? Multiple entire states went dark for hours, and the “highly connectedness” was a huge part of the pr
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by txlpo78 6y ago
https://www.kmbc.com/article/southwest-power-pool-again-orde... Oklahoma has been dealing with rolling blackouts for the past several days. Tell me why this is, since apparently you think Oklahoma is able to magically
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by txlpo78 6y ago
You’re missing the point. Even if the ties had more capacity, the supply of power on the other side of the ties is not there. It’s a two-pronged issue, and you won’t solve the problem by only focusing on one of the prongs.
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by txlpo78 6y ago
Yes, that’s correct. Texas has 5 ties to the western/eastern US interconnections as well as with the Mexico grid. But none of that matters right now because those grids don’t have excess capacity to send to Texas anyway.
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by txlpo78 6y ago
Nothing I said in my comment is incorrect. Texas has 5 different connections with the other grids and can import/export through them. But they are irrelevant right now because the other grids do not have enough spare capacity to send t
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by txlpo78 6y ago
This current problems wouldn’t be fixed if Texas wasn’t on its own grid. The Texas grid does have connections to the other grids, and even right now is importing power from both the East and West interconnections. The problem is that this
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by txlpo78 6y ago
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by txlpo78 6y ago
Central Texas has been getting a lot of freezing rain this weekend, as opposed to outright snow or sleet. I know this has caused a lot of power line and tree damage (because it causes water to cling to trees and freeze into ice, whereas sno