Its a concession that no liberal would ever make in the same situation.
No one else seems to have addressed this...but did you read your own article? "Green Energy" isn't anything to do with it, it's because the power grid hasn't been expanded from those greener sources of energy to meet demand. It's like having a windmill on your house but having it plugged into just the porch light.I guess Texas was just too cheap to winterize. I wonder if they allow major airlines to de ice?
Why Wind Turbines In Cold Climates Don’t Freeze: De-Icing And Carbon Fiber
Turbines in colder climates are typically equipped with de-icing and other tools, such as built-in heating. In Texas, it's not usually necessary.www.forbes.com
So it’s fair to ask: why don’t wind turbines fail all the time in colder climates, such as Canada, Sweden or the American Midwest?
The answer, in short, is that turbines in colder places are typically equipped with de-icing and other tools, such as built-in heating. In Texas, where the weather is almost never this cold, they usually are not.
“Cold weather kits can keep [wind turbines] operating when temperatures plunge. This is the norm in colder states and in Europe,” said Samuel Brock, a spokesman for the American Clean Power Association. “Historically in Texas, given the warm climate, it hasn’t been necessary.”
Sweden is a good example why rushing to green energy is a BAD idea:
"On Thursday, one of the coldest days of the winter so far, peak power prices in the south of Sweden were almost four times higher than in the northern regions."
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"Bottlenecks have meant that power generated from the country’s vast hydroelectric resources and an expansion of wind power in the north hasn’t been able to reach consumers in the south. Instead, they are increasingly dependent on imports of fossil-fuel generated electricity from Germany, Denmark and Poland."
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"In the meantime the chorus of complaint in Sweden continues to grow louder. On Feb. 1, for example, forestry company Holmen AB said it was forced to cut production of paper products due to high power prices."
Sweden’s Power Problems Are Down to Grid Manager: Analysts
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No one else seems to have addressed this...but did you read your own article? "Green Energy" isn't anything to do with it, it's because the power grid hasn't been expanded from those greener sources of energy to meet demand. It's like having a windmill on your house but having it plugged into just the porch light.I guess Texas was just too cheap to winterize. I wonder if they allow major airlines to de ice?
Why Wind Turbines In Cold Climates Don’t Freeze: De-Icing And Carbon Fiber
Turbines in colder climates are typically equipped with de-icing and other tools, such as built-in heating. In Texas, it's not usually necessary.
So it’s fair to ask: why don’t wind turbines fail all the time in colder climates, such as Canada, Sweden or the American Midwest?
The answer, in short, is that turbines in colder places are typically equipped with de-icing and other tools, such as built-in heating. In Texas, where the weather is almost never this cold, they usually are not.
“Cold weather kits can keep [wind turbines] operating when temperatures plunge. This is the norm in colder states and in Europe,” said Samuel Brock, a spokesman for the American Clean Power Association. “Historically in Texas, given the warm climate, it hasn’t been necessary.”
Sweden is a good example why rushing to green energy is a BAD idea:
"On Thursday, one of the coldest days of the winter so far, peak power prices in the south of Sweden were almost four times higher than in the northern regions."
....
"Bottlenecks have meant that power generated from the country’s vast hydroelectric resources and an expansion of wind power in the north hasn’t been able to reach consumers in the south. Instead, they are increasingly dependent on imports of fossil-fuel generated electricity from Germany, Denmark and Poland."
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"In the meantime the chorus of complaint in Sweden continues to grow louder. On Feb. 1, for example, forestry company Holmen AB said it was forced to cut production of paper products due to high power prices."
Sweden’s Power Problems Are Down to Grid Manager: Analysts
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The one fact whomever wrote that LEFT OUT??? We had plenty of natural gas capacity, but with the federal push for "green" energy, the natural gas was TURNED OFF when the freeze hit, and because it was not running, the condensation froze the pipes. So we couldn't get the RELIABLE energy source started because we let idiots push us into "green" initiatives.
Where did you get your "facts" from? Fake facts, yes?
Yeah, it says it right there....without actually saying it:
Nope. It was off because electrical demand is typically much lower in the winter, dumbfuck. It was excess production capacity. It froze because Texas is run by dumbfucks.
The fact still remains, no wind and solar, no outage. Period.
Yeah, it says it right there....without actually saying it:
"Texas does not have as much storage capacity as other states, experts said, because the resource-laden state can easily pull it from the ground when it’s needed — usually.
"Of the storage that the state does have, the resources are somewhat difficult to get to. Luke Jackson, another natural gas analyst for S&P Global Platts, said that physically withdrawing stored natural gas is slower than the immediate, ready supply of lines from production and is insufficient to make up for the dramatic declines in production."
Why was production down? Why was stored supply difficult to get? Slower?
BECAUSE IT WAS OFFLINE to make way for wind and solar. 20% of the grid was wind/solar, and that failed nearly 100%
Millions of Texans are burning their belongings in June to keep their children warm?! They must be Democrats.Abbott was far from the firstRepublican to deploy such blatantly false talking points in response to the ongoing crisis in Texas, which has left at least 10 people dead. But the governor's decision to appear on Fox News and attack a policy that has not even been implemented as Texans resorted to burning their belongingsto keep their children warm was viewed as yet another example of his failed leadership.
'He is lying -- people are dying': Calls for Texas governor to resign as he blames power outages on wind and solar
As millions of Texans struggled desperately to keep warm amid power outages stemming from the devastating winter storm sweeping the nation, the state's Republican governor late Tuesday blamed solar and wind for the blackouts—despite the fact that Texas relies overwhelmingly on fossil fuels—and...www.rawstory.com
Looks like green energy is getting firmly shoved up the rights ass. Which is amazing since that’s where their heads are.
Bullshit. Has not a ******* thing to do with it.
Texas is a natural gas state. Fact.
Dumbfuck’s gonna dumbfuck. Don’t know any better down there in the third world
I’ve already said all there is to say, dumbfuck.
Which was nothing. Agreed.
Deliberately.
And in the winter Texas only gets 10% of it’s energy from wind and solar.
80% dependent on natural gas that failed. You have no defense.
