World’s ‘solar and wind capital’ freezing due to snow ‘blanketing millions’ of solar panels

The areas with the biggest issues are...

ding ding ding

liberal

 

That is entirely dependent on the maintenance required and parts that failed. Oil flowing out onto the turbine blades is not a good sign. Yea it could just be a fitting or it could be a reservoir and they whole thing drenched in oil inside. Not just a deicing.

 

Democrats will blame everything on anything and everyone who they don't support...

So I have no doubt there are Dems sprinting to get out in front of this green energy disaster.

If there are journalists writing articles about why math is racist, there will be journalists who rush to defend anything Democrats like... like green energy.

 

It was 20% four years ago, but semantics.

 

Lack of maintenance is exactly why natural gas, coal and nuclear went tits up in Texas this week. Some things are universal, it seems.

 

It's not the cheaper or better option.

 

Even when Texas was Democratic (pre 1995) it was Blue Dog Democratic.

 

That's because Texas clearly banked on a technology in it's infancy Someone was taking the wrong advice for sure..

 

Is that 20% over the whole year, or winter rate?

 

Anytime you see oil where it shouldn't be then eventually there wont be oil going where it needs to be and catastrophic failure is soon to follow..

 

That is false.

Texas did not bank on technology,.

T Boone Pickens said twelve years ago that the Texas grid was obsolete and needed to be replaced with a DC grid, a regional one that would allow wind power from Texas to be shared across other grids.

That was not done.

Contrary to your false claim, Texas did not invest in improving or modernizing its electrical grid.

 

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

Wind and solar have been able to make electricity cheaper than coal, oil or nuclear for about two years now.

That’s why 100% of the investment capital spent on power generations is in renewables.

Renewables are the only energy source whose costs are dropping. Oil and coal could never make that claim.

And battery farms and renewables will eventually erase the expensive need to maintain a significant capacity of peaker plants.

 

Clearly they didn't bank on Oil and NG and their grid now did they

 

Show us how much and which states with renewables have reduced consumer energy rates..

 

source? ...

 

They did, and it failed.

 

In all fairness to Texas, the weather was extraordinary so I can't blame them for not having appropriate turbines, but that was not the reason they have no power.
As far as I can see it was a combination of poorly maintained power stations and the decision to separate themselves from the national grid.

 

Not sure why you think it's a good thing.

 

Texas produces the most wind power of any U.S. state.[1][3] According to ERCOT (Energy Reliability Council of Texas), wind power accounted for at least 15.7% of the electricity generated in Texas during 2017, as wind was 17.4% of electricity generated in ERCOT, which manages 90% of Texas's power.[4][5]

 

1,Climate change
2, Particulates

 

Well, where am I going wrong? Clearly Texas left their fossils energy sector slip along with their distribution grid... I hardly thing the NG and Oil started the ball rolling in this even, and reality shows it was the Windmills failure that did..

In other words Texas put all their marbles in windmills and failed to secure a sound and reliable backup in reliable fossils..

 

it never snows in Texas

It's a HOAX!!

 

Such obtuseness can only be trolling. You're done...

 

What do you need me to say, THEY DID EVERYTHING perfectly? Christ man, clearly there were bad decision made and one of them was not securing a reliable means of suppling stricken residents of much needed energy?

So you tell me what you want me to say and I'll give you a nice little like and you can retreat back to your own world and blame whomever or whatever you need to..

 

Ah. We disagree. I think climate change is a false alarm, and particulates are not a serious problem for modern well-maintained motors.