If you want reliable clean power, fast neutron reactors and Thorium reactors (needs development) are the only technology that will solve the problem today ..
My understanding is Texas is geared to summer-time electric generation and when the wind farms froze up people were using the natural gas to heat their homes which led to a shortage, not enough left to fire up the backup electric generation plants?
And leaks due to busted frozen pipes eventually led to an overall drop in water pressure everywhere?
Personally I don't think nuclear power is the way to go the more
decentralized our power options the better? I currently have four(4) different power sources (and would like to install my own water well as well)
- 1) Have grid power (which only goes down every now and then)
- 2) Have solar (which currently only supplements grid during day)
- 3) Have gas CNG powered house generator most always-on "STBY" (with gas furnace and cooking too)
- 4) Have hydrogen electrolizors which, if configured properly, is a better form of energy storage that could supplement #2 above AT NIGHT (via a Fuel Cell already installed in one's EV parked in garage?)
Any reason why one couldn't have hydrogen heat and cooking too? There's more
talk 'bout Electric Vehicles here. It would admittedly be hard to rid of "central grid power" entirely but think THAT should be our goal!
Read about the Westinghouse bankruptcy here!
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I was without power for 2 hours, lost water pressure for 2 days. Didn't cause much of a problem as I had had my monthly shower about 2 weeks before . .
lol
@Christine Used to living on bare necessities? I am by no means "
wealthy", still struggle from check-to-check in trying to "get ahead", but DID come from a supportive "family" that stressed "independence" which, as an anti-guberment "prepper", am now passing along to my kids?
Am also from the "NorthEast", grew up in New York metro "Greenwich" (silver spoon?), but am sooo glad to be gone from there!
Am also very UPSET 'bout this new "Equality Act" because, having put off my transition for over 40 years, the eventual BACKLASH is gonna be TREMENDOUS and now don't want to be associated with these "
liberal militant trans" at all!
Finally have an appointment with Dr Powers, 1st time in seeing a doctor ever . . and just wanna "blend-in", fade back stay in the woodwork I hope! So called "part-time job" is getting BUSY, worked a full 9 hours yesterday, will soon be back "
in the chips" again? (Powers has a $300 cash "out-of-state" fee that I must pay 1st)
(ps: my daughter-in-law and son also work there and suspect she's been talking because I asked if wearing shorts (for hot weather) was 'Ok' and the girls in the office just
BUSTED OUT LAUGHING, said "as long as they're not "daisy duke", must be long enough to cover over my knees as well?)