No, frozen wind turbines didn't cause Texas blackouts (Connecticut, nuclear, important)
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Texas has cold snaps every winter. Ice storms are not that uncommon in Houston, snow isn’t uncommon in Dallas.
Texas failed because it did everything on the cheap. It wasn’t even that cold. Cold for Texas, sure, but by North American standards, not all that exceptional. Wind and solar didn’t crash anywhere else (where temps are much colder). The solar panels powering satellites in space work. The wind turbines in Antarctica (and Norway, in the middle of the North Sea, Canada, Germany and France) don’t freeze.
Fault lies with sleazy providers and cowardly elected officials. It isn’t like energy in Texas is even that inexpensive. The state comes in at #23. No regulation, no discount and no accountability. Sad.
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Fault lies with sleazy providers and cowardly elected
officials. It isn’t like energy in Texas is even that inexpensive. The
state comes in at #23. No regulation, no discount and no accountability.
Sad.
The voters can change all this, if they want. Put the needs of their state ahead of party.
OP is a leftist dolt
Did OP bother to find out why "nearly double that, 30 gigawatts, had been lost from thermal sources, which includes gas, coal and nuclear energy"? Do you think it is because of the frozen weather? The plants were closed down because Texas goes green. The wind turbines are used to replace those plants. That is the Fox News story.
Texas has not replaced any thermal plants with wind. The thermal plants that have closed, all coal fired, closed because they couldn't compete with gas fired plants.
Texas has cold snaps every winter. Ice storms are not that uncommon in Houston, snow isn’t uncommon in Dallas.
Texas failed because it did everything on the cheap. It wasn’t even that cold. Cold for Texas, sure, but by North American standards, not all that exceptional. Wind and solar didn’t crash anywhere else (where temps are much colder). The solar panels powering satellites in space work. The wind turbines in Antarctica (and Norway, in the middle of the North Sea, Canada, Germany and France) don’t freeze.
Fault lies with sleazy providers and cowardly elected officials. It isn’t like energy in Texas is even that inexpensive. The state comes in at #23. No regulation, no discount and no accountability. Sad.
Ever since the cold snap of 1989, weatherization has been recommended.
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Ever since the cold snap of 1989, weatherization
has been recommended.
Texas has ignored these recommendations.
Insulation, here in Texas? We don't need no stinkin insulation!
People don't realize that insulation is all about keeping HEAT where we want it: In during winter, and out during summer. And out of our refrigerator/freezers
Amazing: In 2021, after the '70s oil embargo and the first insulation & weatherstripping craze, the United States remains one of the most residentially uninsulated/under-insulated 'developed' countries on Earth. Will we EVER learn?
wet coal is ok wet FROZEN coal is a problem.................
Cant be frozen unless wet first though. And plus its not like it was that cold. Texas did not all of sudden turn into Pluto.
In Siberia people still burn wood for heat. And all they have is a shack or shed to keep it in.
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Insulation, here in Texas? We don't need no stinkin insulation!
People don't realize that insulation is all about keeping HEAT where we want it: In during winter, and out during summer. And out of our refrigerator/freezers
Amazing: In 2021, after the '70s oil embargo and the first insulation & weatherstripping craze, the United States remains one of the most residentially uninsulated/under-insulated 'developed' countries on Earth. Will we EVER learn?
But the insulation will work both ways. It just separates too systems.
Insulation works only when it is purchased and installed
That's not really true. Insulation sitting on the shelf at Lowes, or in the warehouse of the insulation company works just fine, but it's not helping your house at all.
I don't think anyone has said the wind turbines have caused the power issues. They were supposed to be the back up system. Womp.. womp...
People don't hate renewables just to hate renewables.
They are being forced on people either by government fiat, or peer pressure from rabid liberals.
If they actually worked and provided a stable source of energy, you wouldn't have to force them upon anyone.
And then there's the whole Obama green energy fiasco where his friends got a bunch of government money only to end up bankrupt, and I don't believe they ever had to pay back anything... see Solyndra.
Also - climate change is a hoax. So when people tie renewable energy to manmade global warming & climate change... let's just say that it isn't a resume' enhancement. They would do better selling it as an alternative energy source and making it a better product.
OK, catch me up here...Texas has windmills because CO2 is causing Global Warming, but the windmills aren't working because it's too ****ing cold, and the natural gas pipelines that are partly responsible for the CO2 that causes Global Warming froze because it's so ****ing cold, and a nuclear power plant had to shut down because it's so ****ing cold, but coal plants, the biggest Global Warmers of them all, seem to be working just ****ing fine in the complete absence of anything that remotely resembles Global ****ing Warming!
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That's not really true. Insulation sitting on the shelf
at Lowes, or in the warehouse of the insulation company
works just fine, but it's not helping your house at all.
Why do I attract all the nit-pickers...
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