Posted on 02/16/2021 7:18:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A new Rice University study points out that Texas’ environment — which produces sufficient wind and solar power — is ideal to greatly reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. The report should open politicians’ eyes to the potential for a Green New Deal to boost the nation’s economy by creating alternative energy jobs.
The Rice study said with better integration of the state’s wind and solar resources Texas would no longer need coal, which currently produces about 25 percent of the state’s electricity. Natural gas generates 45 percent. “Wind and solar are easily capable of picking up the slack,” said Dan Cohan, co-author of the study.
A Green New Deal could expedite more solar and wind power usage, but first people need to know what a Green New Deal means.
No state will be more impacted by a Green New Deal than Texas — no city more so than Houston. Our representatives need to ensure we have a seat at the table when Congress starts crafting our nation’s inevitable response to climate change. A stubborn refusal to welcome forward-thinking politicians from oil and gas country, or a futile insistence by those representatives to stand athwart history, will set our region down the rust-hued path of other blue-collar industries that refused to keep up with the times. Nobody should want Texas to reach the nadirs of today’s coal country. Nobody should want Houston to follow in the footsteps of 20th century Detroit or Pittsburgh.
Some state will lead the next energy revolution — why not Texas?
That’s an opportunity Texans can and should support. They just need the politicians in Washington to climb out of the ditch they dug with partisan shovels and do something good for all Americans.
(Excerpt) Read more at houstonchronicle.com ...
That study certainly did not age well, less than one year and the entire premise is completely discredited.
Fly over country paying for the elites private jets and mansions. CRAPOLA!
Tucker’s monologue yesterday was beyond brilliant. He is the best on TV, by a staggering margin. Even though he is a privileged white man.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R2bOug1d20c
TV commercial from T Boone Pickens. Hedge fund guy selling wind because we didn’t have enough oil. A real visionary. /s
But when the next hurricane hits the Texas gulf coast, the wind farms will hit a bonanza of excess power./s
Pickens sold this crap to Rick Perry and his AG Greg Abbott. Another Bush family success.
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When the sun is brightly shining, and the panels are clean, and the wind is blowing at the correct speed {not too fast or too slow} and the blades are turning smoothly, and the gummint TAX SUBSIDIES are flowing to the owners of the wind and solar power scams, then they can replace electrical plants powered by coal.
Without the tax subsidy dollars, this scam would never have happened.
Solyndra was a $500,000,000 scam, this entire wind mill, solar panel scan is in the trillions, and because there are big bucks it is never going away.
The lefties want the deplorables to freeze in the dark.
They are celebrating their victory right now....
If only the utility had purchased Chevy Volts to act as emergency generators during crisis periods, this entire situation might have been avoided....
“But when the next hurricane hits the Texas gulf coast, the wind farms will hit a bonanza of excess power./s”
No they won’t. In high winds they shut all of them down or they get torn apart. They are useless and produce no electrical energy in high wind situations.
Go back to your liberal teachers and inform them of this lie they have been teaching you.
In the future please take the time to know the truth before you open your mouth and spread more lies.
The always wrong Houston Barnacle strikes again!!
Without fossil fueled or nuclear backup, wind and solar are too risky. Just look at the Texas blackouts.
In the future, take the time to notice the sarc tab.
I’m posting this on every thread on this subject.
Last night I watched the WFAA report on this rolling black out and power shortage in Texas. They laid the blame of utilities being to cheap to winterize their power generation facilities. Not one mention of wind mills / turbines and how they shut down in very cold weather, something I don’t really understand unless it is associated with ice on the blades.
Nonetheless Texas, in their isolated power grid, now rely on windmills for 23% of their electricity second only to natural gas. Some 23% of their power supply is just missing owing to the cold weather. That kind of gap can’t be made up.
Texas is getting what they wanted, what the customers were given the right to ask for when they have free choice about where they buy their power and by them making that feel good choice to be Free to Choose (the slogan for Texas’ power choice program) renewable power. We are seeing the outcome of a misinformed public making the choice to Go Green. The really sad part is everyone is being made to suffer because of the choice of some to feel good and Go Green instead of they alone being force to suffer the impact of their foolishness.
If your are freezing in Texas and your pipes burst blame some of your neighbors who made the choice for Wind Power(less).
Instead of sending all of us on the pathway of folly a region of the US should be designated or volunteered as the pilot project region for renewable power. Don’t allow any emergency bail-outs, isolate the region and make it exist on the poison the Greenies want to feed all the rest of us. See how it goes. Texas is not the right place because this cold is not normal. It is just giving us a taste of what would become an every day way of life living with renewable energy. The impact could be mitigated with enough money but I am sure the cost would be staggering to provide reliable Green energy.
This article appeared on Accuweather yesterday.
From this article:
this excerpt:
Around 9:30 a.m., local time, CenterPoint told customers that those in the dark “should be prepared to be without power for at least the rest of the day.” A large reason for the continued lack of power has been due to frozen wind turbines in West Texas, grid operators said.
Typically the state’s wind farms generate a combined 25,100 megawatts of energy, but those turbines were ground to a halt by the moist winter conditions. In 2020, wind power generated 23% of the all the energy in Texas and was the second-largest source after natural gas, according to Statesman.com.
Innocent and helpless people are are going to be made to suffer at the hands of these green fools. That is just one of the many things underlying my anger about this subject in addition to abject stupidity, ignorance of facts and science not caring about either, obscene cost and waste, the fraud, that new generations have a false sense of normal and the suffering that many will experience at the hands of these fools. I’m sorry people in Texas are freezing and doing without power and water. I have family there who are suffering for the folly of fools.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The two reactors at the STP shrugged off Harvey and ran at 100% not the flood protection a fukushima type disaster cannot happen at the STP the back ups are flood hardened that and Tsunami are almost unheard of in the gulf of Mexico with the exception of a asteroid strike such as the KT event in the Yucatan 65 million years ago. That Tsunami was massive
Texan nuclear plant runs through Hurricane Harvey - World Nuclear News
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Texan-nuclear-plant-runs-through-Hurricane-Harvey
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