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swraith

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  1. This is true for Camp Mabry weather station KATT. For Austin-Bergstrom International Airport weather station KAUS, January 2015 was technically colder. 587.5 HDD in January 2015 vs 582 HDD in January 2024.
  2. Evergrande liquidation: Western hedge funds shocked by liquidation | Fortune
  3. I would like to try out the Vision headset. Just to see if the interaction with a desktop could fundamentally change.
  4. I’m shocked AISD didn’t cancel.
  5. Made a large batch of carnitas overnight. House smells great. Should be solid for lunch and dinner today.
  6. Water in the dirt to collapse any air pockets and then throw more dirt on it. Mulch would work well.
  7. Sure ok. To each their own. Winter storms knocking the Texas power grid offline for days is enraging.
  8. I'm fine with some actual winter weather but I don't want to see anything approaching Winter Storm Uri. I'm not ready for that shitstorm again.
  9. “I’ll tell you a secret,” he said, “since media is not here.” God had spoken to him throughout Republicans’ weekslong effort to find a new Speaker, Johnson said. Eventually, God revealed to Johnson that he would be a Moses-like figure leading the GOP and the country through a “Red Sea moment.” House Speaker Mike Johnson just compared himself to Moses (msnbc.com)
  10. Fingers crossed but I am assuming by statements put out earlier this week that the Council will still pass this phase 1.
  11. That link to the tax-office was helpful. I was able to find my taxes due vs I can't find them on TCAD.
  12. I don’t see much for the Dems to complain about…this week…so far.
  13. Elon Musk on Buying Twitter and Turning It Into X Rogan is at least humorous in that costume.
  14. McCarthy spending a lot of time speaking if this vote is going to fail again today.
  15. The above seems like a way to reduce any incentive to try and "invest" or "flip" housing in Mueller.
  16. This is the thought that keeps coming up when I hear about the House needing to open so it can pass an aid package for Israel. Uh what is the rush to send them aid? The Executive has already signaled broad diplomatic support.
  17. I think you hit 3 spots on the above bingo card with this post.
  18. I'm zoned SF-2. As far as I'm aware, I'm limited to 1 unit on the property. I welcome the proposed change. For instance, it could be the house, a garage apt/studio, and an ADU that actually has plumbing. That setup could accommodate an aging parent and a kid in college who needs more privacy than living in the main house.
  19. I would like to see the multiple unit option move forward. My SF zoning doesn't allow for even a second unit with plumbing. With aging parents, I would like more flexibility to handle possible living arrangements.
  20. I still have the XR. A better camera is the part that keeps me wondering if I should upgrade. Otherwise, the XR remains functional. I have an Otterbox case and it works fine to wireless charge.
  21. Do you want fans of marijuana to try and stress/crash the electric grid in Texas so the hard-core GOP can turn around and blame them? Great optics for sure
  22. I think I will vote against almost all of the Props. Yes to Props 9 and 11. In general, I don't like the fund creation of some of these Props. If the Legislature wants to fund spending, then let's fund spending. I don't see the upside of creating these funds and then empower small Boards to direct the spending. It seems like less oversight than just having the Legislature be responsible for it. Prop 7 is trash. I'm in industry and it is a $5 billion dollar subsidy to thermal generation developers. Very little is understood in terms of how this plan will integrate into the broader ERCOT market framework. Anybody who votes yes for this and expects to get a good ROI on the investment, doesn't understand the situation. Many of the other Props appear to be carve outs around the primary tax system of property tax. If property tax has so many negative impacts, let's reform the property tax system. Not create carve outs for this industry and that industry.
  23. Please provide a direct link to how this "future credit" works because the ERCOT settlement protocols say you are 100% wrong. For specific refence, look at Section 9: Settlement and Billing on this page Current Protocols - Nodal (ercot.com) If your post was an attempt to create some kind of metaphor, so be it, but acknowledge that. Because it is factually not accurate. ERCOT has a real time settlement system. The bitminer here contracted an amount of supply for their load. The miner then reduced their load in real time. The ERCOT real time settlement processes look at this imbalance. The imbalance results in the miner have more supply than load. ERCOT then directly pays the miner for this excess energy. It is settled at the interval level. This payment happens on the standard load settlement cycle. Technically the money is going to go to the QSE hosting the miner. However, the miner is the only "customer" in the QSE, so they are going to get all the money. Money is changing hands. The miner can effectively take this money and gamble it in Vegas, have a crazy party in Dubai, they could reinvest in their business, or divest it to owner's of the private company. It is a pure windfall for the miner. The above process is the settlement for the $24.2 million ERCOT is paying Riot for energy sold back. The $7.4 million in demand response credits is a different discussion but it only represents 23% of the $31.7 million reference in this clickbait news story. All of the above is neither good nor bad. It just is how a very complex set of rules have evolved with the Zonal and now Nodal markets in ERCOT. The miner hit the jackpot. Oh and the miner still has to pay its energy supplier for the supply it contracted for. So, subtract that expense from this new "revenue".
  24. This has to be a troll post. new oil burners? no one in the US is building new oil burning power plants. They are incredibly cost inefficient based on their fuel cost and their pollution levels are absurd. Texas is theoretically getting a new nuclear plant. We will see if it actually gets built. Dow, X-energy to drive carbon emissions reductions through deployment of advanced small modular nuclear power As Brisket stated, Transmission and Distribution losses are nowhere near 50%. Here is a citation for Brisket's posted 5%. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) The 2 areas ERCOT could easily import from are SPP (lots of wind) and MISO. Both of those have reserve margin capacity that ERCOT could import from. In theory, ERCOT could import more from Mexico as well, but that is far more complicated, from a political perspective. CFE (Mexico Electric Utility) already does importing and exporting across the small DC Tie.
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