According to their web site they have deactivated a portion of their units, are installing a a Sound Wall barrier and will convert to immersion cooling. Are those things not true?
When I was a kid my home town built a "community support" race track at the fairgrounds. Then the community support turned into people complaining about the the noise Stock Car's make. Sounds like it could be a similar situation.
Sam
Both are very true. Thing is, some posters don't care about truth and cherry-pick their 'facts' to support their trolling.
Cases in point:
But spending money to upgrade the power gird so people don't die, nope not in Texas
False. Their grid IS being massively expanded. The huge wind & solar farms are largely financed by
the mining farms that serve as a huge baseline load for the power being produced. Since you seem to not realize that wind & solar power are a 'use it or lose it' proposition, having mining farms as a baseline load that can be switched on & off is what allows expansion of the power sources.
That brings us toBut don't worry when the Texas power grid can't take it again, the people will pay them not to mine
True but with a caveat: ERCOT pays the farms to curtail their power usage -- so the power can be sent to folks that need it. This is mainly during heat waves. Once the heat drops and the other loads lessen the mines then switch on again. As said earlier, it's not a matter of the grid not being able to 'take it', it's a matter of the designed-in load balancing that has allowed for expanding 'green' power production w/o wasting the power being produced.
2 Separate issues
1) The amount of power that is generated is NOT the problem for the most part. It's the DISTRIBUTION that needs to be updated. Same issue we had here in NY 12 years ago when Sandy took out power for weeks on end.
The generation facilities were more or less back online in a matter of hours. The downed lines and everything else that was neglected for decades previous had to be fixed and updated. Still going on today in parts of NY. Except during the freeze for the most part in TX the power has been up in TX, the GRID could not handle it. That is still the issue. Fixing NY cost BILLIONS and the population density where it had to be done is a lot more then Houston. So the cost is going to be larger per person in TX then NY and 12 years ago it still was a stupid big number.
2) Yes, ERCOT pays people not to mine so people that need it can get it. BUT, [and a lot of places are guilty of this], you should not allow THAT MUCH more possible power pull then could be generated. ConEd in NY had that. When more and more power was being consumed, they just stopped allowing more people to connect until they had the ability to generate more. Then even went out and gave people LED bulbs and lower power appliances so the amount of power needed was lower when it was approaching limits. If you are an internet provider and oversell your service the speed people get goes down. It's a lot tougher to do that with power.
Still, the sound issue which was the point of the OP still stands, who in the local planning / zoning board let something as noisy as a mining farm get thought.
According to their web site they have deactivated a portion of their units, are installing a a Sound Wall barrier and will convert to immersion cooling. Are those things not true?
When I was a kid my home town built a "community support" race track at the fairgrounds. Then the community support turned into people complaining about the the noise Stock Car's make. Sounds like it could be a similar situation.
Sam
Was it the original people or did the neighborhood demographics change? I have seen that a lot the old people want 'X' and years later when they sell the new people look at 'X' and try to get rid of it because they want 'Y'
-Dave