OT: Power outages plague Texas, other states amid deadly cold, snow

Yep. Athens is blanketed in deep snow also.

More here

Even the wind turbines have frozen!

Possibly better to have them freeze solid than to spin. Either they'd chuck lumps of ice about, or just fall over from being off balance.

Andy

Course not.

US answer to gridwatch

Look at what the wiki entry on te texas power grid says - rampant spin and total lies

"February 2021, record low temperatures caused large loss of coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants power production and a shortfall of over

In reality Gas was down and wind was down, but nuclear and coal stayed up

Note the record low temperatures. They couldn't lie their way round that.

ERCOT is desperately trying to claim it wasn't the fruzzed windymills, honest guv!

Some bullshit about nuclear and coal plants having frozen instruments. Crap - ever been inside a coal power station ? freezing it aint!

No, that would be much *better*. It would destroy windmills and create an even better argument for banning them

Never mind, The avjet burning helicopters will be along to spray teh CO2 emitting de icer on them shortly

Although aircraft propellers rotate considerably faster than turbines (around 2000-2400 RPM in the cruise) prop icing is something to be avoided because of vibration and loss of efficiency. Blades on aircraft that might experience icing conditions either have heating pads or a total loss de-ice system through small holes - parts of the blades are de-iced in stages to avoid asymmetry. The noise made as the ice comes off a twin and hits the side of the fuselage is quite scary. Do these turbines have any form of de-ice or anti-ice?

Both have tip speeds somewhere in the subsonic region. 200mph is pretty optimal in both cases but aircraft props will get up to mach 0.7 or more. And sometimes break the sound barrier

Yes., a helicopter comes along and sprays antifreeze on them

This is for the C-130...Each engine is equipped with a Hamilton Standard four-blade, electro-hydromatic, full feathering, reversible-pitch propeller. The propeller operates as a controllable- pitch propeller for throttle settings below FLIGHT IDLE and as a constant-speed propeller for throttle settings of FLIGHT IDLE or above. The major components of the propeller system are the propeller assembly, the control system, the synchrophasing system, and the anti-icing and de-icing systems.

I wonder if there is a temp and coverage that would force the mid states to go into another ice age??

wonder what would be required to tip us all into another ice age?

Time. We are in an interglacial at the minute, but should be heading back into glaciers etc down to London within a few k-years.

The configuration of the continents just now is such that being in an ice-age is the norm, today's temperatures will not last.

Arrhenius did speculate that coal burning might save us from the next ice age. Five metres of sea level rise by the end of the century is relatively easy to cope with. A couple of kilometers of ice marching down from the north rather less so.

But not in countries used to such temperatures? Why would that be?

Not just temperature, but snow and ice building up on the blades. OOI which countries had you in mind?

Yes., but what has that to do with wind turbines? They diont have that at all

I thought the current rate was 3mm a year? so 30cm by the end of the century

that rate hasn't budged an inch in decades and is not tracking with CO2 at all

Another inconvenient truth For warmunistsas