Craig Lawrence

@frankie_wayman What bullshit? It’s a photograph of sheep.

@clawrence Oh when you can bullshit people, those checks roll in don’t they?

your moment of zen....

@Artazen_ It’s a pretty common weather pattern in Texas that wind production drops during the day.

@clawrence So the wind doesn't blow in the daytime? About 20 GW is produced by wind during off-peak ours, then production falls off a cliff to about 5 GW during peak hours. The wind stops when solar is going?

Battery storage in ERCOT is now routinely providing 10%-20% of power required by the Texas grid during times of peak demand. Five years ago, we had no batteries in ERCOT. The next 5 years are going to be nuts.

@MickMechanics Those batteries are charging off of solar, wind, and gas primarily.

@clawrence Batteries store energy, they don't generate it. You still need reliable power to charge them. That means nuclear.

@skolinkonlot These batteries are connected to the electrical grid. And installed all over the state. And they look like this. Nobody is plugging USB cables into them. They are providing power to the grid at periods of peak demand.

@clawrence Where are these giant batteries? Do people have giant USB-C cords that plug into them?

@ws4r5065455 @JoshYoung @Hyundai I personally think they are. And, if you believe the future of cars is autonomous electric vehicles, you'd take the value of most other OEMs to zero right now. Because most don't have viable products.

@clawrence @JoshYoung @Hyundai Nice vehicles, but an insanely expensive stock. Is Tesla really worth more than every other car company on the planet combined? I'm thinking no.

Bought a hybrid @Hyundai Tuscon. Huge mistake. The hybrid battery died 3 years in. It is technically under warranty, but they have so many cars with problems that they don't provide loaners (or rental car etc). And they're out of batteries so it's been weeks. 👎👎

@jerrodtuck You obviously give multiple fucks. Here you are.

@clawrence You really are retarded if you don't think it is a problem. Just like wind towers don't kill birds, etc. Grift harder pal. This Engineer sleeps just fine without giving a single fuck about you.

@jerrodtuck Making up non-problems like solar panels heating the ground, and calling people a retard is the typical go-to for a smooth-brain.

@clawrence Comparing apples to oranges is the typical go-to for climate retards.

@jerrodtuck Now do urban heat islands. I'm sure you are very worried about it also.

@clawrence They need the shade because the temperatures around them have increased thanks to those solar panels.

@James_M_Alpert @MAVERIC68078049 So many birds killed. By cats and cars and buildings and powerlines. Not so many by wind turbines.

@clawrence @MAVERIC68078049 add in the number of birds killed...

A two-megawatt windmill is made up of 260 tons of steel that required 300 tons or iron ore and 170 tons of coking coal, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons. It hold 700 gallons of oil and hydraulic fluid, and like car these need to be replaced every 9 months. People might fall for the idea that we can merrily run on sunshine and breezes, alone, but with a few trillion dollars worth of mythical mega-batteries providing backup for a few minutes, it could spin until it falls apart over and over again and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.

@Atomicrod Look at who funds their political campaigns...

Serious question: Why would leaders of a potential host community for a large nuclear project oppose the project due to the possibility of high cost and long construction time?

We landed a rockstar...

I really need a printer that has zero screen, wifi, or bluetooth connection. I just want to be able to plug a usb cord printer --> computer Hit print, and have it actually work every time

@james_xond You don’t get the upside of them covering repairs well above your premiums, and not the downside of paying for periods where you don’t have claims. They would immediately go bankrupt.

Should car insurance give money back at the end of the year if you haven’t had any accidents??

It's really not that hard to limit export. Is it a little bit of a pain and some extra cost? People are and will continue to do it. There is an entire industry of bootleg on-grid systems being installed all over the country. They will figure out how to avoid detection as the utilities get more sophisticated. And, a bootleg small off grid system can be very cash flow positive if you are using it to game TOU or tiered rates in a place like CA which can charge you $0.60/kWh or more.

@clawrence Yah then you're back to a bootleg small off grid system that you've been able to do for a decade now right. But then the lcoe is probably pretty close to retail at that point

Note: if you have bootleg balcony solar, it's pretty easy to nail you

Dump all the solar into the battery, and then dole that out when loads need it. Just pluging the loads right into the battery is the simple method. Don't need to touch your home wiring. Or you could get fancy and synch up with your thermostat and EV charger API and program the battery to only discharge when those loads are running. Someone smarter than me could probably vibe code that in an hour.

@clawrence How though your battery should take exactly the excess of your inverter gen and the home load so you need to set up the coordination.

@tedcruz I think we all can agree that we want to ban your colleague @JohnCornyn 's brisket?

WATCH: This freak wants to BAN BBQ. That’s not Texas.

@xiaowang1984 If you have a battery, there are other ways to handle it. Also ways that would make it undetectable. Frankly, the utilities should be broadcasting your consumption with those fancy meters we taxpayers and ratepayers paid for with the promise that they would open up comms.

@clawrence Gonna reduce the zero friction aspect of this wouldn't it