Texas power grid just isn't safe. This is one of the times being the forgotten corner of texas is a good thing.

>>510387853 (OP)
Did the state of Texas gut all their wiring and send the proceeds to Israel, or something?

This is a better map BTW because things like RFC or NRO aren't grids themselves they just are bodies to regulate usage. There's really 3 grids in the USA.

El Paso is safe.

>>510388060
forgot pic

>>510387853 (OP)
Based, did you get rain

CA and TX are shitholes. If other based states (AZ) stop exporting their massively excess energy to them, they will become even bigger shitholes.

>>510388057
Because muh independence o algo... but when their grid is fucked they can't import energy from the eastern or western interconnections

>>510388117
Nah I mean we've had little drizzles since it's monsoon season here (but that just means you might get drizzles as opposed to no rain lol) but west texas is safe from floods and power shit

>>510388127
Holy shit... William Penn was right about everything. Pennsylvania is fucking heroism.

>>510388332
The massive generating states all have more nuclear power than they need (except WV which is probably coal and gas), that's what mostly drives their exceptional excess. AZ's single nuke facility supplies critical power to LA, Vegas, San Diego, Phoenix and Tucson. PA has 8 facilities and AL has 5.

>>510388127
it also has the hoover dam

AZ is based

Fuck off, we're full

>>510387853 (OP)
do yourself a favor and get yourself a cheap handcranked radio flashlight at the hardware store.

I remember decades ago when the midwest lost power for several days. The worst part was not knowing what was going on. With this, you can at least pick up the radio stations, which would let you know if it's just you or something bigger.
> meanwhile, cell towers will only last as long as their backup fuel

On a separate note for anyone interested in niche energy generation systems. I recently chemically analyzed the full Bendall "plasmoid" engine and came to the conclusion it is actually just a Pogue process engine (a scam but a successful scam that works in a different way than advertised). You can take the "plasmoid generator/bubbler" design and strap it to any combustion engine and automatically get 40% (typically 30-60% on measurements) more fuel efficiency. If you fully customize and optimize the setup you can theoretically get the mpg efficiency that Pogue referenced back in the 1930s-1950s (10 times greater fuel efficiency with no power loss long term). The other guy who discovered the Pogue process was Tom Ogle, who was killed by random gunshot after coming out with the rediscovery. Canada patent 2876642 is another rediscovery (2014), similar claim to Ogle and Pogue. You can stretch your fuel much farther with a successfully optimized system.

>>510388861
Hoover is a good generator but PV generating station generates 10 times as much electricity. The Colorado river dams are also very low in recent years which will lead to reduced output if we don't get about 3-5 wet monsoons coupled with wet winters in a row back to back.

>>510387853 (OP)
El Paso is the only place in Texas where you can buy a literal mansion for $200k

>>510387853 (OP)
More like El Trasho. Fucking nasty ass town trash everywhere learn what a dumpster is.

>>510391957
The reason for that is no job there pays over $10.

>>510391964
>Nasty ass trash town
It's cleaner and safer than any texas city retard.

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso,
Power once flowed from a grid far away,
Tied to the East through the state of old Texas,
But El Paso longed for the sun every day.

Born on the edge of the great Western Intertie,
Lines stretching far from the Rockies to coast,
Solar and wind from the deserts and mesas,
Could give El Paso what it needed most.

Back in the days of the old ERCOT system,
El Paso stood mostly on its own,
Isolated, a lone little outpost,
A city with grid ties that barely were known.

But planners and dreamers and grid engineers,
Looked to the West with a bold, steady gaze.
“Why not connect to that wide-open network?
Clean power could flow here for years and for days!”

Power from sunshine, high desert windlines,
Energy flowing through copper and steel,
Linking the mountain towns, crossing state lines,
Bringing El Paso a grid that could heal.

So they built ties with the Western Connection,
Intermountain and Palo Verde too,
No longer stuck in a corner forgotten,
El Paso's grid had a bright future view.

Now when the heat rises high in the canyon,
And ACs are running from dusk until dawn,
The lights still stay on in homes and in towers,
Because the West’s power keeps humming along.

Bless the linemen, the wires that bind them,
From Oregon south to the New Mexico plains,
Power flows westward, eastward, and onward,
And El Paso thrives on its Western domain.

>>510392975
VGH Felina core... so based

>>510389025
AHAHAHA....500 watts an hour solar into a 4,800watt hour battery bank with 3600 watt 120 AC inversion. Plus, 1,200 watts in portable batteries with 400 watt inversion I can charge from the cars cigarette lighter over 150 watt inversion, Also 5 standalone solar lights a diesel parking heater, an electric blanket and a wood burning stove I can run as a cook top. Also various mini cell phone charging banks I can charge head lights, Walkie talkies, flashlights etc and 220 gallons of rain water collection. I should be ok during (another) power outage. Not 100% modern living but survivable.

>>510387853 (OP)
el paso is a shithole trying to be as shitty as new mexico. not really saying much, southwestoids can't into power grids.

>>510387853 (OP)
>Town I grew up in mentioned!
>Woo!
I miss thar town but it's not the city I grew up in anymore (which is fine).
I miss walking through miles of desert and starting a bond fire with friends and no one bothering us. Too much development now to do that (unless you are in HORIZON city or something.)
Better hope that the rains don't strike again I was there for the 2007 floods and the city got wrecked.
>>510391964
It grows on you. Food is good, but it is a desert town next to Mexico.
>>510391957
I thought property prices exploded over there and there was still a housing shortage.
>>510392025
Also true. That's why I left. Anyone who graduates UTEP gtfos instantly.
>>510392785
>Cleaner
It's not, and I was on the West side.
>Safer
This is a fact. I miss walking around at 2 am with friends drunk as fuck getting Taco Cabana just cause we had a craving or late night after concert Village Inn
>>510392975
Cute parody, only one thing. Most of El Paso uses Swamp coolers, not central air.

>>510394063
How is El Paso a shithole. It's one of the safest cities in the country and least degenerate and one of the most family oriented.

>>510394063
The PV station in AZ was for many decades the largest single generating station on Earth, and is still among the top generating stations on Earth. If the USA actually wanted to get serious about nuclear energy it wouldn't have canned Alvin Weinberg and Thorium fuel cycle reactors. Modern Thorium fuel cycle reactors can theoretically achieve 99% fuel utilization rates, whereas conventional 1940s tech uranium reactors only achieve 1-5% fuel utilization rates. The theoretical extension of total fuel supply using Thorium cycle reactors would outlast the Uranium fuel cycle by at least 700 years globally. But again, the corporations and politicians that be, hate efficiency unless it has to do with their profits.

>>510387853 (OP)
hmmm sorry? we don't want Gaytario
>>510388098
sorry we don't want to mix with anglos
like keep your niggers for yourself

>>510387853 (OP)
How did the poorfags in Quebec manage to take over so much of the electricity market in the North East?

>>510394276
>it's one of the safest cities in the country
>t.el paso tourism bureau
how is it a shit hole?
>everyone is obese
>high concentration of zogbots and military welfare queens
>food is dog shit, mostly tex-mex
>drunk drivers galore
>borders mexico
>shit infrastructure
I could go on, having worked there for a 3 month project with my company was enough to never go there again.

>>510394276
>Family oriented
Not just family. People are slow to warm up but when you make friends there ypu make a friend for life. If you have a disfunctional family, you still have a friend group who will look out for you.
I mean took me in for months kinda look out for you when I had no place to live.
I don't know if it's like this anymore. Since COVID everyone feels like a brainwashed mess and no one is close anymore or likes to just "hang out" and spend time together.

Other weird quarks.
>Most everyone is a stoner and bonds over that
>Rock is still a popular genre there
>Perscription Pills are harder to get (compared to the other parts of the US that hand out scrips like candy)
>Most peopel have dark senses of humor and El Paso citizens called and trolled the news after the Walmart next to Celo Vista got shot up.
>Bar scene used to be a blast
>Drinking in Juarez used to be fun until the Cartel wars fucked up everything
>Surprisingly low murder, gang crime or violent crime for such a massive drug trafficking port
>>510394063
New Mexico is weird and Las Cruses is basically a suburb of El Paso. It has a lot of cool stuff like hot springs and ski slopes.
But if you think El Paso is poor, oh buddy you ain't seen nothing till you lived in NM (Albuquerque and Santa Fe excluded).

>>510394588
the eastern interconnect is chock full of nuclear power. despite the western and texas interconnects housing the largest states they believe nuclear has never been widely adopted because most of you are retarded and never built more than 2.

>>510396007
It's full of Nuclear power and uses Quebec's Hydro dams to absorb demand fluctuation, since the dams and reservoirs up there are absolutely enormous, likely still the biggest in the world.

>>510396007
Texas is retarded. It's also not what I or most other mountain westerners consider SW. Roughly 20 million people depend on power (and water) imports from AZ. One of the only states planning to build new reactors ("new" as in 1940s tech 2% fuel utilization reactors) is Utah. Energy wise pretty much every western US state other than CA is fine. The eastern US uses a fuckton more electricity despite having more reactors because it has 3 times the population on average, most of the deficit states are eastern.

Texas is Fucked in the next 30 years.
why should anyone give a shit what they think,
Good thing jeets are moving there.

>>510395189
>Everyone obese
What?
>Zogbots and welfare queens
Fort bliss yeah but no welfare queens
>Mostly tex-mex
No, it's the only place in the US you get real Mexican food
>Drunk drivers galore
In the south yeah
>Borders mexico
That's a plus I cross to Juarez often
>Shit infastructure
No....

>>510395189
>one of the safest cities
>T. El Paso Tourism Bureau
Two things... El Paso doesn't have Tourism. There ain't anything to come from out of town and see.
And the second https://elpasomatters.org/2024/02/05/el-paso-crime-fbi-data-safe-city/
Check the sources and the break down per capita, it has the FBI data.
And yeah, I can vouch that I never felt unsafe walking around late at night anywhere in the city, even in down town or low income areas.
>Everyone is Obese
That's an America issue
>Zogbots
Military tends to stay in the North East and doesn't mix too much with locals. No where as large a population as the East Coast.
>Food is dogshit
False. Cattlemans (the original not the dogshit chain with the same name) is one of the best steak houses in the country.
>Drunk Drivers galore
Lol WTF? Never heard this complaint.
>Borders Mexico
.... yeah, we know.
>Shit Infrastructure
Bullshit. El paso not only has solid infrastructure cause there is barely any rain to erode anything, but fixes shit fast cause labor is cheap and is walkable as fuck.
I don't mean 15 minute city trash, I mean every neighborhood has sidewalks and none of this "built in the 1800s" ghetto rigged infrastructure.

But yeah, I get it and why you hated it there. If you don't make friends and find a group to hang with the town sucks. Having a group of spanish speakers that unlock fun shit in Mexico also made things more fun.
As I said earlier....
It grows on you...
You don't fall in love with it upon arrival

>>510387853 (OP)
>el paso
That city should joined New Mexico desu.

>>510396698
Honestly some of the hottest women in the US... but most on /pol/ will never admit it (sad!)

>>510396747
Why? It's a border city. Being on the border is what makes it special.

>>510396697
Mexican food there ruined east coast "mexican" for me for a decade.
Only upside to Biden flooding the border is the Mexican on the East Coast isn't shit anymore if you go to the right spots.... and those spots used to not exist at all.

It's been known for years their power grid fucking sucks ass
State issue, you're big bad independent cowboys, you say it all the time. Fix your own shit you retarded faggot.

>>510387853 (OP)
>north alaska has no power

>>510397384
Unironically no one lives there, and the people that do use wood stoves for heat 9 months of the year. The unorganized boroughs are the last places in the USA where there is no legal obligation to pay property taxes, and the state of Alaska does not levy income taxes either meaning no taxes period if you own land in the unorganized boroughs.

>>510396824
Hottest if you're a white dude.
A lot of chicks like Nikolul that I see dudes drool over I'm like "umm yeah, I went to school with like 4 chicks that look exactly like her, she's a 7"
They do put out easier though. El Paso was a place where it was much easier to get laid.
Also most "mexicans" in El Paso are half white cause apparently white people and Mexicans keep marrying into each others families.
Also just cause someone is "white" doesn't mean they aren't Mexican. Used to blow out of towners visiting me's mind when they would meet heavy accent broken english white mexicans and how common they were.

El Paso chicks (not just the latinas) were usually super down to earth though. That is something I miss terribly.
Bitches on the East coast annoy me and west coast annoys me more.

>>510388098
Isn't ERCOT the successor organization to ENRON?

>>510398272
Uh oh....

Fuck now I'm all in my feels about El Paso. I loved living there but I have no reason to go back. No work in my field (pay there sucks anyways), all my friends moved, no real family there anymore...
It really was the people and the infrastructure/City layout that made it so amazing.
It's not a place where you visit to see a monument or go to some massive amusement park or see some world famous site.
When you first get there, you are misreable and think WTF is there here and where did my life go wrong.
>But then you make friends.
>those friends check up on you everyday and ask you to check out stuff
>You walk around and explore
>You see strange hole in the wall stuff you never would see anywhere else
>You try food and build a habit of weekend breakfasts at your favorite dive joint
>You see the mountains everywhere and never get lost cause you have a strong visual reference point
>You decide to hike the mountains and find crazy cool nature
>on the 4th of july, you see fireworks going off for miles because of the elevation
>In the summer even when there isn't rain you see lightning going off for miles every night.
>You start getting absorbed into the community events like parades and free concerts at speaking rock
>You meet more people, make more friends
>You have groups you belong to now, and they really care about you. Not just fair weather bullshit.
>You are day trip distance from vegas, Phoenix, and a bunch of ski slopes and hot springs in NM
>You grow to love the cheesy local commercials
>You grow to love seeing "Read yoir bible" written on the side of the Juarez side of the Franklin Mountains
>You love seeing the lone star on the El Paso side.
>You take time to enjoy sunsets
>A get together only needs a grill, meat, and a few cases of beer.
>You find more unique things everyday, explore more stuff, find odd sculptures.
>You feel safe. You feel loved.
>it's no at WORLD CLASS Metropolitan city, but little things everyday make you smile and enjoy life.

>>510387853 (OP)
I thought we were a separate country.