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Excellent 30 minute video explaining the real story behind the Texas Power blackout and why this could happen again unless we get the market distorting green energy (unreliable energy) subsidies ended.
1 posted on 02/21/2021 3:00:43 PM PST by boxlunch
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To: boxlunch
What the hell is a "thought leader"?

Sounds like somebody that needs an ass whooping.

2 posted on 02/21/2021 3:09:28 PM PST by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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Weed out all the BS and you are left with one fact. Despite similar storms in the past (no it wasn’t once in a century) Texas has never initiated blackouts because it couldn’t generate power.

If power was down, it was because lines were down PERIOD.


7 posted on 02/21/2021 3:24:10 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: boxlunch

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-senator-ted-cruz-receives-tri-global-energys-2019-wind-leadership-award-300978981.html


10 posted on 02/21/2021 3:32:34 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: boxlunch

It snowed


11 posted on 02/21/2021 3:32:39 PM PST by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: boxlunch

ping - Texas power grid


16 posted on 02/21/2021 3:35:50 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: boxlunch

We need to downsize and localize power sources. Safe micronuclear for each home or even each room. Large grids, whether gas, water, or electric, pose a risk to the population insofar as a catastrophic failure effects many.


18 posted on 02/21/2021 3:39:04 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: boxlunch

“Excellent 30 minute video explaining the real story behind the Texas Power blackout”

A summary would be nice ...


29 posted on 02/21/2021 4:00:11 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: boxlunch

Bkmk Texas power
George Prescott Bush
Gov A bott


35 posted on 02/21/2021 4:09:32 PM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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47 posted on 02/21/2021 5:44:46 PM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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To: boxlunch
It wasn't any one thing. At most there was a general policy decision by various Texas governments to take more chances with system reliability in order to reduce the cost of electricity to consumers.

This was expressed in many different ways involving diverse sources of energy production and distribution, and of electric power generation and distribution, and the magnitude of the reserves of production, generation and distribution required during very widespread and very cold weather.

A form of the "choose any two of the three" adage applies here. When governments choose how much electricity they want generated in their territory, they can have any two of cheap, plentiful and reliable.

Texas prioritized cheap and plentiful over reliable, which meant some Texans froze to death in the dark this month. Whether that was cost-effective might be re-examined.

48 posted on 02/21/2021 6:34:48 PM PST by Thud
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