Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes

[busybee01]

We need to use natural gas and nuclear energy....and oil and coal....stop wasting money on ancient forms of power...

Natural gas froze in the pipelines. Nuke plants shut down...fossil fuel plants shut down

And oh yea...Wind Turbines only provide 10% of Texas energy this time of year.

This is a total failure of the Texas government to anticipate a cold snap.

Nothing else
ALL of this could have been prevented.

Wrong. 30 percent comes from green energy. If we weren't using that crap, we wouldn't be in this situation. Period.

You are either lying or stupid.

Even Abbott admitted than in the winter only 10% of energy produced comes from renewables...

The failure was across the board. Texas failed to protect their power sources from cold.

They failed

Nope, it's 30 percent.

The Governor of Texas says 10% of Texas' electricity comes from the wind. Try telling the truth for a change

 

[theHawk]

Bloomberg:

""Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re Not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness.

While ice has forced some turbines to shut down just as a brutal cold wave drives record electricity demand, that’s been the Least significant factor in the blackouts, according to Dan Woodfin, a senior director for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s power grid."...."

Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes

Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness.

www.bloomberg.com

Nice paywall, asshole.

What nonsense. You don’t know anything about how to maintain a large power grid. When those windmills and solar stop working entirely, it puts an immediate strain on the other generation sites. The BES is down power generation and makes balancing even more difficult. Couple that with a huge uncommon demand makes balancing that much more difficult. It isn’t just about the power output, it’s about balance. Then throw in the weather causing damage to power lines, causing more strain and spikes in the BES. One failure in the BES can lead to a domino effect.

You are the one swho has no clue what you are talking about. Thde reason why the power grid failed is because the natural gas in the pipoelines were frozen. A nuclear power plant shut down because of the cold. There was no strain on the system.

Yes, they use natural gas which froze over completely. Another “net zero carbon” green energy source.

 

[abu afak]

Liberals same way. If they're talking they're lying.

Meaning YOU Voted for the man Documented as EXPONENTIALLY the biggest Liar Ever to hold office anywhere.
The American Oligarch..
Putin's mole Trumpov.

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[Lakhota]

Texas should be ashamed. Pure stupidity...

 

[theHawk]

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Uh-huh, zoom calls are going to fix their power grid.

 

[busybee01]

Weatherizing a windmill shuts it down...so what difference would it make to "weatherize" it?.....its still not operational....

It is cold in Greenland and the windmills still function. That is called planning.

 

[theHawk]

Texas should be ashamed. Pure stupidity...

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They aren’t “deregulated” you dumb twat. They still fall under FERC and NERC.

 

[mudwhistle]

Bloomberg:

""Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re Not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness.

While ice has forced some turbines to shut down just as a brutal cold wave drives record electricity demand, that’s been the Least significant factor in the blackouts, according to Dan Woodfin, a senior director for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s power grid."...."

Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes

Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness.

www.bloomberg.com

Screw Bloomberg.
He's nothing but a Democrap propagandist.

Bloomberg is citing fact. Texas only gets 10% of it's electricity from wind. As the Washington Post pointed out, Greenland gets it's electricity from wind and despite the cold climate, they have no problems. The cold shut down natural gas lines and forced a shutdown of 1 nuclear reactor. That has nothing to do with green energy. Abbott and other Texas Republicans are lying when they try to blame it on green energy. Aince you are a lying propagandist, it is not surprising you support Republican lies. Republicans are responsible for the failure of the power grid in Texas.

Republican lies!!!! LOL!!!
As opposed to Democrat lies like Officer Sickneck dying from being hit in the head with a fire-extinguisher!!!LOL!!!

Dude.....STFU!!!
Nothing that is in the news can be trusted....including this bullshit.
It's no surprise that Houston is the primary focus of this blackout....who do you think runs Houston?

DEMOCRATS!!!

DUMBASS.

 

[theHawk]

The Governor of Texas says 10% of Texas' electricity comes from the wind. Try telling the truth for a change

It depends on how windy it is. The Governor said that in winter it’s only 10%. Otherwise it’s about 25%. That’s the problem with wind, you can’t spin up generation on demand.

 

[busybee01]

Bloomberg:

""Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re Not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness.

While ice has forced some turbines to shut down just as a brutal cold wave drives record electricity demand, that’s been the Least significant factor in the blackouts, according to Dan Woodfin, a senior director for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s power grid."...."

Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes

Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness.

www.bloomberg.com

What a crock of shit. Tax breaks and the way power is purchased in TX rewards unreliable power such as wind and solar. This has caused suppliers to spend where the tax breaks are, instead of investing in and maintaining reliable sources like nuclear, gas and coal plants. Add to that the failure of reliability commission to physically inspect the plants due to the covid excuse. And Texans are paying the price. BTW wind is rated at 30 gigawatts of power and are currently producing less than 1 gigawatt, solar is near zero.

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Natural gas frreezes in the pipelines and you blame it on wind. The Texas energy grid is run by the state of Texas. Their refusal to weatherize the energy grid so it can run even when the weather turns extremely cold is the reason for the fzailure of the power grid.

 

[Lakhota]

Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes

Those "frozen wind farms" are only frozen because Texas failed to WINTERIZE them - like Canada and many other countries.

 

[busybee01]

Bloomberg:

""Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re Not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness.

While ice has forced some turbines to shut down just as a brutal cold wave drives record electricity demand, that’s been the Least significant factor in the blackouts, according to Dan Woodfin, a senior director for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s power grid."...."

Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes

Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness.

www.bloomberg.com

Screw Bloomberg.
He's nothing but a Democrap propagandist.

Bloomberg is citing fact. Texas only gets 10% of it's electricity from wind. As the Washington Post pointed out, Greenland gets it's electricity from wind and despite the cold climate, they have no problems. The cold shut down natural gas lines and forced a shutdown of 1 nuclear reactor. That has nothing to do with green energy. Abbott and other Texas Republicans are lying when they try to blame it on green energy. Aince you are a lying propagandist, it is not surprising you support Republican lies. Republicans are responsible for the failure of the power grid in Texas.

Republican lies!!!! LOL!!!
As opposed to Democrat lies like Officer Sickneck dying from being hit in the head with a fire-extinguisher!!!LOL!!!

Dude.....STFU!!!
Nothing that is in the news can be trusted....including this bullshit.
It's no surprise that Houston is the primary focus of this blackout....who do you think runs Houston?

DEMOCRATS!!!

DUMBASS.

Nothing that comes out of a Trump supporter's mouth can be trusted. You are the ones spouting the bullshit.

You WALKING PIECE OF GARBAGE.

 

[theHawk]

Texas should be ashamed. Pure stupidity...

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As of this moment there are still power outages in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Oregon, and Kentucky.

What’s their excuse?

 

[theHawk]

Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes

Those "frozen wind farms" are only frozen because Texas failed to WINTERIZE them - like Canada and many other countries.

Why the fuck would they winterize stuff in Texas when it never freezes like this? Doing so would cost billions and make energy prices soar.

 

[busybee01]

Bloomberg:

""Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re Not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness.

While ice has forced some turbines to shut down just as a brutal cold wave drives record electricity demand, that’s been the Least significant factor in the blackouts, according to Dan Woodfin, a senior director for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s power grid."...."

Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes

Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness.

www.bloomberg.com

Screw Bloomberg.
He's nothing but a Democrap propagandist.

Bloomberg is citing fact. Texas only gets 10% of it's electricity from wind. As the Washington Post pointed out, Greenland gets it's electricity from wind and despite the cold climate, they have no problems. The cold shut down natural gas lines and forced a shutdown of 1 nuclear reactor. That has nothing to do with green energy. Abbott and other Texas Republicans are lying when they try to blame it on green energy. Aince you are a lying propagandist, it is not surprising you support Republican lies. Republicans are responsible for the failure of the power grid in Texas.

Republican lies!!!! LOL!!!
As opposed to Democrat lies like Officer Sickneck dying from being hit in the head with a fire-extinguisher!!!LOL!!!

Dude.....STFU!!!
Nothing that is in the news can be trusted....including this bullshit.
It's no surprise that Houston is the primary focus of this blackout....who do you think runs Houston?

DEMOCRATS!!!

DUMBASS.

The officer was killed by Trump terrorists who stormed the capitol.

You STFU you lying asshole.

The state of Texas runs the power grid not Houston.

 

[busybee01]

Texas should be ashamed. Pure stupidity...

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As of this moment there are still power outages in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Oregon, and Kentucky.

What’s their excuse?

None of these states are having issues with power generation. Their issue is downed power lines.

 

[busybee01]

Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes

Those "frozen wind farms" are only frozen because Texas failed to WINTERIZE them - like Canada and many other countries.

Why the fuck would they winterize stuff in Texas when it never freezes like this? Doing so would cost billions and make energy prices soar.

Amazing how other states and countries can do it.

 

[Lesh]

Why the fuck would they winterize stuff in Texas when it never freezes like this?

Never?

Look up what that word means stupid

 

[busybee01]

Bloomberg:

""Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re Not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness.

While ice has forced some turbines to shut down just as a brutal cold wave drives record electricity demand, that’s been the Least significant factor in the blackouts, according to Dan Woodfin, a senior director for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s power grid."...."

Frozen Wind Farms Are Just a Small Piece of Texas’s Power Woes

Don’t point too many fingers at Texas wind turbines, because they’re not the main reason broad swaths of the state have been plunged into darkness.

www.bloomberg.com

Nice paywall, asshole.

What nonsense. You don’t know anything about how to maintain a large power grid. When those windmills and solar stop working entirely, it puts an immediate strain on the other generation sites. The BES is down power generation and makes balancing even more difficult. Couple that with a huge uncommon demand makes balancing that much more difficult. It isn’t just about the power output, it’s about balance. Then throw in the weather causing damage to power lines, causing more strain and spikes in the BES. One failure in the BES can lead to a domino effect.

If their Republican leadership had been willing to accept Federal Regulation, their power systems would be integrated with the rest of the country and they'd be supplied with power from outside Texas.

It wouldn't have mattered if parts of their systems failed or went 'Out of Balance'.

LOL you’re a moron. As I stated, the power generation isn’t usually the problem. You have zero comprehension of how it works if you can say something as stupid as “it wouldn’t matter” if parts fail or go out of balance. Why do you think the agencies that run power grids are called a “Balancing Authority”? If the balance is lost, the power goes out, and yes that can happen when there is too much power just as easily if there isn’t enough. The local outages due to damage cannot be solved by dumping more power, it can only be fixed when the local lines and transformers are fixed.

So you're saying that it's not the wind mills? It's the lines and transformers?

Funny how so many lines and tranformers don't go bad when sub-zero temperatures happen up north!

Funny how there aren't massive amounts of electrical workers from ohther states moving into Texas to help fix those lines and transformers....

Maybe it as something to do with Texas power systems isolation policies.

Put a half inch of ice on any power system and it will go down. It's that simple.

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It is not that simple. Cold can freeze natural gas pipelines unless they are protected from the cold.

 

[theHawk]

The officer was killed by Trump terrorists who stormed the capitol.

Who has been charged with his murder then? Please open a new thread on it.