FEMA Sends Only 60 Generators to Texas During Power Crisis
Data doesn’t “suggest” anything.
The wind generation played a small part, but the real problem was that too much money was spent on windmills instead of keeping up the existing coal and NG power plants.
Data doesn’t mean a damn thing. A 5 year old child knows that he can’t depend on the WIND to fly his kite!
Gas, oil, nuclear. Damn you Obama, Biden and Jane Fonda.
Natural gas prices have been below $3 MMCF for several years.
If wind turbines and solar panels were not subsidized, how high would the price of natural gas have to be in order to make wind turbines and solar panels economic?
Would natural gas have to be $10 MMCF or more for that to happen?
Texas did not spend the extra money for winterized windmills. I just drove through the mountains of W.Va. and the windmills was operating fine.
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Texans were told in 2012 to winterize their energy structure but never did deeming the cost too high versus sub zero temps happening again.
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Ultimately the power issue in Texas or anywhere else for that matter is like healthcare. Whenever the federal government gets involved in picking winners and losers, the losers are us......
Oh no, AOC has already declared the opposite and the MSM will back her up.
Maybe we could mandate all new homes in Texas have natural gas heating, or at least dual electric/gas. Electric heat requires generation from a gas or other fuel. Gas heating only requires low power electric starting and management software.
Texas needs to cut wind/solar down to less than 15% of the energy production. We are swimming in natural gas so why is so hard to get NG plants built? And why not ramp up a few more nukes?
A little critical path planning is needed here ...
China had just bought a bunch of those wind turbines.
We were fairly lucky so the local hydro electric plant sent river water downstream to help.
FEMA sent in emergency diesel generators, not more windmills. just saying.