You’re not showing your calculations but yeah Texas has a lot of solar and wind because they make economic sense.
Jebusfreek666 on
Man, I could go for a NY dirty hour!
Loki-L on
I thought much of New York’s power came from hydro?
SeveralBollocks_67 on
Yeah, but Texas bad! Blue state good!
jaunty411 on
That’s only looking at power grids. Texas has the highest CO2 emissions in the country when you include all other sources. So, no Texas is not cleaner than New York on the standard of CO2.
MajesticBread9147 on
I mean this makes sense. Texas is full of cheap relatively worthless flat land that’s easy to develop, and it’s farther south than the vast majority of states. California is of course blessed with this too to some degree, but it’s a North-South state.
Although I think for a fair comparison you have to include industrial activity. Texas has about 30 oil refineries which burn fuel themselves, and a lot of oil extraction where flaring (literally just burning methane that isn’t economical to sell as natural gas) is commonplace. Not to mention how many factories have their own power stations.
Plus I wouldn’t be surprised if transportation metrics are different. The New York City area is well-designed enough that most people commuting into the city don’t drive to work, and most people who live in the city don’t even own cars.
I haven’t been to Texas for very long, but from what I’ve seen I doubt that even a quarter of those in Dallas use public transit regularly instead of driving.
timmler24 on
Could fit Ontario in there, it’s a flat line below 0.05 all day
Napoleon7 on
Based on the way the title was worded I thought it was about air quality….
dayaku on
Hi
If these sort of analysis is of interest to you, then you will probably like electricymaps.
It has close to live overviews of co2 intensity of a whole lot of energy markets, including NYSIO, ERCOT and CASIO
Funny that Texas can burn so much carbon but still have a rinky-dink grid that randomly fails to deliver the power and then charges you 200x the normal price due to demand.
![[OC] NY’s cleanest hour is dirtier than Texas’s dirtiest hour. Am I calculating this wrong?](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ef71bwij3pvg1-1536x922.png "[OC] NY’s cleanest hour is dirtier than Texas’s dirtiest hour. Am I calculating this wrong?")
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You’re not showing your calculations but yeah Texas has a lot of solar and wind because they make economic sense.
Man, I could go for a NY dirty hour!
I thought much of New York’s power came from hydro?
Yeah, but Texas bad! Blue state good!
That’s only looking at power grids. Texas has the highest CO2 emissions in the country when you include all other sources. So, no Texas is not cleaner than New York on the standard of CO2.
I mean this makes sense. Texas is full of cheap relatively worthless flat land that’s easy to develop, and it’s farther south than the vast majority of states. California is of course blessed with this too to some degree, but it’s a North-South state.
Although I think for a fair comparison you have to include industrial activity. Texas has about 30 oil refineries which burn fuel themselves, and a lot of oil extraction where flaring (literally just burning methane that isn’t economical to sell as natural gas) is commonplace. Not to mention how many factories have their own power stations.
Plus I wouldn’t be surprised if transportation metrics are different. The New York City area is well-designed enough that most people commuting into the city don’t drive to work, and most people who live in the city don’t even own cars.
I haven’t been to Texas for very long, but from what I’ve seen I doubt that even a quarter of those in Dallas use public transit regularly instead of driving.
Could fit Ontario in there, it’s a flat line below 0.05 all day
Based on the way the title was worded I thought it was about air quality….
Hi
If these sort of analysis is of interest to you, then you will probably like electricymaps.
It has close to live overviews of co2 intensity of a whole lot of energy markets, including NYSIO, ERCOT and CASIO
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fifteen_minutes
Funny that Texas can burn so much carbon but still have a rinky-dink grid that randomly fails to deliver the power and then charges you 200x the normal price due to demand.