Amid the region’s recent series of extreme heat waves, the West Texas gas supply infrastructure witnessed a number of failures that led to the release of tons of excess pollution into the air.

According to The Texas Tribune, gas pipeline operators in the state reported to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality that the high temperatures led compressor stations to scale back or shut down completely.

As a result, pressure began to build up in pipes, and the only solution was to release it into the atmosphere to avoid a dangerous situation.

He [Todd Staples, the president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association] added that insulation, equipment shelters, sunshades, wind walls, monitoring, and backup power generation are among the measures to prepare for hot weather.

Surprising to hear mention of wind walls. They're popular in places like India, but you don't see them much in U.S. They don't need to be structural, they can be made with trellised vegetation when feasible and appropriate.

It will be ventilated block next..

https://news.yahoo.com/report-reveals-foreboding-side-effect-190000678.html

And all this time the mindless fossil fuel industry shills have been screaming about solar being "unreliable"- when they mean available.

NERC does report the big solar backup facilities having a dynamic performance problem with their inverters. They don't go into any detail, but it makes you wonder how a semiconductor based power generation design could have a problem with "dynamics."

On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 05:28:42 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
<bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

>Amid the region’s recent series of extreme heat waves, the West Texas gas supply infrastructure witnessed a number of failures that led to the release of tons of excess pollution into the air.
>

"Tons" must be a couple of milliseconds of what China's coal plants
dump.

On Sunday, August 13, 2023 at 9:55:59 AM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 05:28:42 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
> <bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Amid the region’s recent series of extreme heat waves, the West Texas gas supply infrastructure witnessed a number of failures that led to the release of tons of excess pollution into the air.
> >
> "Tons" must be a couple of milliseconds of what China's coal plants
> dump.

Right, it's fairly minuscule. The main point of interest is their gas electric generation infrastructure the failing under heat stress.

In article <dd709b5f-9faf-416d-872f-4316e74781f0n@googlegroups.com>,
Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>On Sunday, August 13, 2023 at 11:55:59 PM UTC+10, John Larkin wrote:
>> On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 05:28:42 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
>> <bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Amid the region’s recent series of extreme heat waves, the West
>Texas gas supply infrastructure witnessed a number of failures that led
>to the release of tons of excess pollution into the air.
>> >
>> "Tons" must be a couple of milliseconds of what China's coal plants dump.
>
>But China produces more renewable energy than anybody else and is
>installing more new renewable energy sources than anybody else.

It would be interesting to have a documentary about the ultra modern
coal plants being built in China and the coal plants in operation
in USA.
>
>It's also producing about 80%% of the world's production of solar cells.

They are serious, about EV, about Thorium reactors, about fusion reactors.
They have signed the Paris agreements and they are not backing out
on the whim of a president.
>
>They do have a lot of coal based generation, but they also have a lot of
>people who need electric power right now.
>
>Bitching about the current situation when the whole world is in
>transition is remarkably stupid, even for you.
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_China
>
>https://www.iea.org/reports/solar-pv-global-supply-chains/executive-summary
>
>--
>Bill Sloman, Sydney

Groetjes Albert
--
Don't praise the day before the evening. One swallow doesn't make spring.
You must not say "hey" before you have crossed the bridge. Don't sell the
hide of the bear until you shot it. Better one bird in the hand than ten in
the air. First gain is a cat spinning. - the Wise from Antrim -

On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:52:16 +0200, albert@cherry.(none) (albert)
wrote:

>In article <dd709b5f-9faf-416d-872f-4316e74781f0n@googlegroups.com>,
>Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>>On Sunday, August 13, 2023 at 11:55:59 PM UTC+10, John Larkin wrote:
>>> On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 05:28:42 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
>>> <bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >Amid the region’s recent series of extreme heat waves, the West
>>Texas gas supply infrastructure witnessed a number of failures that led
>>to the release of tons of excess pollution into the air.
>>> >
>>> "Tons" must be a couple of milliseconds of what China's coal plants dump.
>>
>>But China produces more renewable energy than anybody else and is
>>installing more new renewable energy sources than anybody else.
>
>It would be interesting to have a documentary about the ultra modern
>coal plants being built in China and the coal plants in operation
>in USA.
>>
>>It's also producing about 80%% of the world's production of solar cells.
>
>They are serious, about EV, about Thorium reactors, about fusion reactors.
>They have signed the Paris agreements and they are not backing out
>on the whim of a president.

Chinese pens are cheap.

They are serious about propaganda and brutalizing anyone who expresses
any criticism, or brutalizing their families as needed.