Posted on 02/21/2021 8:09:32 AM PST by Onthebrink
Wind and solar should exist comparable as if one has a secondary part time job or endeavor. Gas/coal/nuclear should be the main resources as relying on the primary job for the foundation. Similar to asset allocations in a mutual fund for a balance.
you keep build fossil fuel capacity....for the 1% chance of a disaster....what’s lacking now is base load capacity is not adequate...the idea would be to distribute power generating capacity so the disaster is not as widespread as what happened in Texas...
“There is a great podcast that hit The Federalist that talks about how Rick Perry signed a law stating that in 2005 25% of all energy in the Texas grid should be from wind. Yikes.”
I believe that law was severely violated. During this storm only a few percentages were from wind. Those lazy windmills should be hauled before a judge and made to pay the consequences.
You’re screwed.
The biggest problem Texas faced from this storm wasn’t the lack of power even though wind generation came to a standstill. We had power lines going down all over the state, entire towns were without power due to line failures and the problem that exist with bringing power back on leading to more failures. No amount of power coming from any source would have helped. The ice buildup was more than the lines could hold. There are thousands in TX who still don’t have power.
There are potential issues with combustion turbines. GE had problems with the ceramic coatings on the blades. I’m not sure those have the longevity of steam turbines.
The other issue is yes we have lots of natural gas now. How do you build the new pipelines needed when it’s subject to the public review process which has extended the timeline for approval and, in some cases, killed the proposed pipeline?
There are potential issues with combustion turbines. GE had problems with the ceramic coatings on the blades. I’m not sure those have the longevity of steam turbines.
The other issue is yes we have lots of natural gas now. How do you build the new pipelines needed when it’s subject to the public review process which has extended the timeline for approval and, in some cases, killed the proposed pipeline?
With the greatest respect, what you wrote was nonsense.
The problem was this: The gas fired power plants couldn’t get enough gas on cold days, when people needed the gas to heat their houses.
You want to spend hundreds of billions on some untried thorium molten salt reactor boondoggle, that will take 20 years to build.
here’s a better idea. switch the gas fired oower plants (which are really just king sized jet engines) to burning light fuel oil when they run out of natural gas. You need about $1 billion to do the whose state. In other parts of the US the gas fired power plants are required to have oil backup, To put it in all the power plants in Texas, it will take less than a billion dollars to do the whole state.
(Its true that the windmills didn’t work, but don’t blame the windmills. Any half wit, and even some liberals, knows that there will always be days when windmills don’t work. So you will always need backup for those days, just don’t make it gas fired, because sa we’ve seen gas too can have shortfalls.)
How do you invest in anything when we have government by royal decree and it does a 180 degree flip every four years?
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