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Quote:Is ET going green?! Who knows when these two Tesla Semi Trucks will be in our yard!
That's right, Ronen bought TWO Tesla Semi Trucks! Not one... But TWO TESLA SEMI TRUCKS!!
Ronen wanted to share his experience with you guys. How much money he had to put down to order them, and how much they actually are. How it was getting in contact with Tesla (if there was any), and WHY he decided to bite the bullet and buy two tesla semi trucks!!
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pianotuna
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Grit dog wrote:pianotuna wrote:Grit dog wrote:
Half of Texas homes are electric heat and 75% of those are resistance heat....literally the most inefficient, electricity sucking way to produce heat, so ya, there probably was a run on power during those days, lol.
Resistance heat is actually 100% efficient.
It is true that moving heat using a heat pump uses less energy per BTU.
So you agree w me, or just trying to use true definition in place of accepted definition of words to show…idk what.
Yes resistance heat is nearly 100% efficient because nearly ALL the heat loss is, well, theoretically, useable heat.
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Great article in WSJ the other day, have to have a subscription to read but here’s the headline,
Gavin Newsom’s Dirty Energy Secret
California’s electricity woes result from man-made climate policies, not from climate change.
Talks about 30% of SoCal electricity from out of state coal.
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Grit dog
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pianotuna wrote:Grit dog wrote:
Half of Texas homes are electric heat and 75% of those are resistance heat....literally the most inefficient, electricity sucking way to produce heat, so ya, there probably was a run on power during those days, lol.
Resistance heat is actually 100% efficient.
It is true that moving heat using a heat pump uses less energy per BTU.
So you agree w me, or just trying to use true definition in place of accepted definition of words to show…idk what.
Yes resistance heat is nearly 100% efficient because nearly ALL the heat loss is, well, theoretically, useable heat.
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@Yosemite,
Why would I compare missing a game to a death? Oh maybe as evidence that it wasn’t “that” bad.
But you are sensationalizing it. To the greatest extent. Do you not think out of almost 30million people in that state that there are less than 200 people who either A. Don’t have the sense to come in out of the cold (insane, homeless etc) or B. Don’t have an extenuating circumstance that lead to some cold weather killing them. (Likely pretty much the same as A?
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time2roll
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pianotuna wrote:Grit dog wrote:
Half of Texas homes are electric heat and 75% of those are resistance heat....literally the most inefficient, electricity sucking way to produce heat, so ya, there probably was a run on power during those days, lol.
Resistance heat is actually 100% efficient.
It is true that moving heat using a heat pump uses less energy per BTU. Heat pump delivers 2x to 3x the BTU per kW.
If all of TX converted it would be a huge reduction in electric demand. But electric is cheap and minimal efficiency regulation.
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Grit dog wrote:
Half of Texas homes are electric heat and 75% of those are resistance heat....literally the most inefficient, electricity sucking way to produce heat, so ya, there probably was a run on power during those days, lol.
Resistance heat is actually 100% efficient.
It is true that moving heat using a heat pump uses less energy per BTU.
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time2roll
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Grit dog wrote:time2roll wrote:Grit dog wrote: but I would like to here your views of how you think the Cali grid would do, if it was below zero for several days from San Diego all the way up to Sacramento? No issues as CA power has NG storage vs direct well to the furnace. Also CA can import from the NW grid connections.
CA is ready for the clean air SEMI to roll.
Lol, you really have this all figured out...
Side question, why don't they doo this in the summer then? Sounds so easy and would surely be less of an inconvenience to all the good people of the great state of Callie. Why operate in winter mode during the summer? Go ahead and do some homework if this is so interesting.
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Turtle n Peeps
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Grit dog wrote:time2roll wrote:Grit dog wrote: but I would like to here your views of how you think the Cali grid would do, if it was below zero for several days from San Diego all the way up to Sacramento? No issues as CA power has NG storage vs direct well to the furnace. Also CA can import from the NW grid connections.
CA is ready for the clean air SEMI to roll.
Lol, you really have this all figured out...
Side question, why don't they doo this in the summer then? Sounds so easy and would surely be less of an inconvenience to all the good people of the great state of Callie.
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Yosemite Sam1 wrote:Grit dog wrote:Yosemite Sam1 wrote:time2roll wrote:Compared to TX, I believe the CA administration of the grid has gone quite well. I expect this superior management to continue as we transition away from burning fuel to have electricity. EVs will be the easy part as charging is flexible.
CA is ready for the SEMI.
Not even close, 200 Texans died of deep freeze with massive black out because their leaders can't make the electric companies harden their grids and plants with winterization. ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/eek.gif "eek")
And the sad part, these same leaders even got the nerve to lie to their constituents that it's the turbines and renewables that failed when the windmills (it's turbines, idiot) are still going whoop, whoom, whoom, causing cancer, in nearby states. ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/scratchead.gif "scratchead") ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/doh.gif "doh") ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/rolleyes.gif "rolleyes")
Half of Texas homes are electric heat and 75% of those are resistance heat....literally the most inefficient, electricity sucking way to produce heat, so ya, there probably was a run on power during those days, lol.
But, yeah, so 200+ people died in 100 year low temps that also lasted far longer than other record or near record events combined with near record snowfalls.
200 people die every summer from heat illness too. And aside from the indigent, the majority of the deaths were likely people who were almost too weak to survive anyway...kinda like how Covid deaths got pumped up but the reality was 90+% of the deaths were people whom the NEXT thing to get them would kill them whether it be the flu or a broken hip or a stroke...
Coincidentally, I was in Dallas during that deep freeze. It was very annoying. Coming from the north, I never considered it dangerous. Heck we only had 1 hockey game cancelled out of 5 or 6 and that was after the weather stated to break...but the refs couldn't get to the rink. The most dangerous part was I had a rental car that kept locking up a front wheel so I drove around for 3 days, more often than not with one wheel acting like a ski....thank god for all the snow, or it would have been dead in the water!
Sensationalizing that event as a comparison to about anything is complete jackassery, but I would like to here your views of how you think the Cali grid would do, if it was below zero for several days from San Diego all the way up to Sacramento?
I mean, I'm sure it would be fine by your logic...people could just sit in their Teslas with the heat on watching Tik tok videos on the big screen...
Wow, wow, wow.
Is this for real? You are actually comparing your cancelled hockey game with the same grim seriousness 200 preventable deaths if only their leaders bear down really hard on the former recommendations to harden the grid and the generating plants thru winterization.
That's not sensationalizing dude, 200 people dead are 200 people dead, wives without their husbands, husbands losing their wives and kids no longer celebrating their birthdays.
Death from illness is totally different from death from negligence of which people should be held accountable.
What's wrong with you?
RVnet shaming?
Oh the humanity!
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