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25% of tx homes have lost electricity, freezing temps creating disaster
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Predator is a Chinese made Generator and they have Honda Clone engines. I honestly can't say anything bad about predator engines or generators. Honda parts are even interchangeable with predator engines so there just a copy of a honda engine. Just take a look at the Honda es2000 and you can see the similarities.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=4500w+predator+generator
idk how true this is, but it does make sense, after all, it does appear the chins have stolen the designs of everything they make, from someone else...
Predator is a Chinese made Generator and they have Honda Clone engines. I honestly can't say anything bad about predator engines or generators. Honda parts are even interchangeable with predator engines so there just a copy of a honda engine. Just take a look at the Honda es2000 and you can see the similarities.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=4500w+predator+generator
idk how true this is, but it does make sense, after all, it does appear the chins have stolen the designs of everything they make, from someone else...
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and lots of those companies seem to be able to sign onto that 'not-responsible clause' which i believe comes from the quid pro quo of that donation they made to that local congressman's reelection campaign, or the deal they used to get themselves the deal in the first place...
greasy palms seem to lube each others hands, so to speak
greasy palms seem to lube each others hands, so to speak
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they got broken
let's see what I can remember;
locally: over-engineered above what the original korean agency suggested, yet: Built To Order, and it did not work, so, they threw in the towel
back east: one had the dome break because the operations manager for the 'cut' of the stressed dome didn't follow their nine month cut procedures, created dome cracks...done
another back east has some catastrophe with construction, caused about two more to be stopped mid construction
that's what I remember, all man-made, man caused catastrophes - all preventable iirc
there were more, about 7 or 8 "failed" within about a decade of each other...
ps i just saw the other day, the destruction of a 900Mgw generator station...but, hey, the have already built it's replacement: a 500Mgw facility
do the math, and it hurts when you consider that 'any growth' is not even considered...
let's see what I can remember;
locally: over-engineered above what the original korean agency suggested, yet: Built To Order, and it did not work, so, they threw in the towel
back east: one had the dome break because the operations manager for the 'cut' of the stressed dome didn't follow their nine month cut procedures, created dome cracks...done
another back east has some catastrophe with construction, caused about two more to be stopped mid construction
that's what I remember, all man-made, man caused catastrophes - all preventable iirc
there were more, about 7 or 8 "failed" within about a decade of each other...
ps i just saw the other day, the destruction of a 900Mgw generator station...but, hey, the have already built it's replacement: a 500Mgw facility
do the math, and it hurts when you consider that 'any growth' is not even considered...
The fact is that a major portion of the US just flat ran out of natural gas after just a few days of record cold. That is what is causing all of the power outages. The wind mills aren't helping but it's the fact that so much power generation switched to natural gas. They have just shut down so that the gas that is left is going to heat homes.
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LOL
SEMPRA, iirc, they built a generator in Mehico, but, there were no customers...hmmm, why would they do that?
because all they needed was to run the wires, and that was easier to get done than to build that generator in California
they're making money hand over fist...and since they don't produce anything else, and they have to 'turn a profit', prices will necessarily have to increase, no matter what they do...fires, maintenance, the economy, deficits in supply, etc
the prices WILL go up
SEMPRA, iirc, they built a generator in Mehico, but, there were no customers...hmmm, why would they do that?
because all they needed was to run the wires, and that was easier to get done than to build that generator in California
they're making money hand over fist...and since they don't produce anything else, and they have to 'turn a profit', prices will necessarily have to increase, no matter what they do...fires, maintenance, the economy, deficits in supply, etc
the prices WILL go up
Back in the early 90's I was working on a gas production platform in The Gulf. We didn't have a contract to sell at the time, just "spot natural gas price". There was a major storm inland and much of the country was low on gas, all the way up to Chicago with power outages all along the way. For a few days there the company was getting about 40 times the usual rate for gas in that small field.
You would think the law of supply and demand would solve some of these supply problems.
You would think the law of supply and demand would solve some of these supply problems.
Just got home from the coal mine. Take a guess at what my peers think about all of this?
It won't improve under Joe's technocratic leaders. Prep for being a third world citizen.
Have a look at the coal column.
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_1_01
It won't improve under Joe's technocratic leaders. Prep for being a third world citizen.
Have a look at the coal column.
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_1_01
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The way we did it offshore, all wells produced to the main platform where oil (condensate) gas and water was separated. In some instances we had glycol units to dry them better. Then it (gas and condensate) went to the beach in someone else's pipeline to a gas plant, which usually consisted of a compressor, high pressure separators and some holding tanks for condensate. We really didn't produce significant oil so we usually didn't even have pipeline pumps at the beach.
In any case the gas was dry enough to go through a compressor. About the only way compressed gas is going to produce any liquids after that was if it took a significant pressure drop in a short distance, like through a regulator.
In any case the gas was dry enough to go through a compressor. About the only way compressed gas is going to produce any liquids after that was if it took a significant pressure drop in a short distance, like through a regulator.
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Hear you, am talking about gas associated with oil and wet gas, both of which usually have a water cut on individual wells on-shore. The wells in Canada use heat tracing to keep from having a low spot in a field line freeze up and plugging production. Usually there's enough heat from the reservoir to avoid problems, but unusually cold weather makes lines freeze up.
Not that much. I powered my freezer and refrigerator for two days off my minivan, some years back. Stick in the throttle to keep the engine going at about 1500rpm...used a quarter-tank in those two days. Of course eventually I'd have needed more, but that's true of any gasoline generator.
The risk you run. Compare it against the expense of a natural-gas powered generator that you use, maybe, never. When was the last time you had a power emergency? You pays yer money and you takes yer choice.
The risk you run. Compare it against the expense of a natural-gas powered generator that you use, maybe, never. When was the last time you had a power emergency? You pays yer money and you takes yer choice.
They copy but they use inferior materials. IMHO it's deliberate.
Like my Chin cycle. Yamaha designed engine; but the valve train exploded in use. Discussion online suggested that others' teardown into that model, suggested the timing chain sprockets and/or cams, were made of pot metal. Also poor tempering of the cylinder head - mine didn't last long enough for that to be an issue.
Like my Chin cycle. Yamaha designed engine; but the valve train exploded in use. Discussion online suggested that others' teardown into that model, suggested the timing chain sprockets and/or cams, were made of pot metal. Also poor tempering of the cylinder head - mine didn't last long enough for that to be an issue.
No shite. Big tough Texas. We so bad, blah blah. They get a little taste of what we live with and they fold up like a Chinese card table.
Have to start a thread so the rest of us have to listen to these woman folk wine.
I just looked out the window and some young guy is riding his bike to work on the streets of Minneapolis like he is the lead racer in the Toure de France and I couldn't even see his breath his endurance is so high.
No one is watching him, he doesn't care. He just does his job like any cough, cough white man. The colder the better, ask any Nordic or Russian
But no offence to our 'cowboys', would hate to hurt their delicate sensitivities, again
Have to start a thread so the rest of us have to listen to these woman folk wine.
I just looked out the window and some young guy is riding his bike to work on the streets of Minneapolis like he is the lead racer in the Toure de France and I couldn't even see his breath his endurance is so high.
No one is watching him, he doesn't care. He just does his job like any cough, cough white man. The colder the better, ask any Nordic or Russian
But no offence to our 'cowboys', would hate to hurt their delicate sensitivities, again
