Schadenfreude!
“Let’s drink some beer and eat some schnitzel and wear short leather pants and forget about electricity!”
OK. So the solar panels are covered with snow because they’ve got the flat side up.
What if they just turned the solar panels 90 degrees and had the skinny part of the panel facing up?
Where’s my Nobel Prize?
If only they lived in Southern California...
God has a great sense of humor, doesn’t He?
There should be a rule that when windmills stop turning, the greenies have goout and turn the blades by hand.
Well, duh...heating elements would keep the solar cells snow-free. German engineering ain’t so smart, is it?
‘’For many years, Germany has been held up as the world’s wind and solar capital.’’
But at what cost ... as the article says it is high ... so high that as many as 1.5 million households can not afford electricity and go without. They shut down their nuke plants when Japan had their huge accident and the cost shot up. This because of so few coal plants operable.
This is a brilliant, powerful, highly educated,sophisticated, cultured country of the highest order. Unfortunately they have a self-destructive streak...invasion of the Soviet Union, declaring war on the US, electing Merkel, open borders, closing all nuclear power etc. These are not small matters on the grand scale of things.
Green Energy Fail - bump for later....
Hot dog! We get to freeze in the dark while we starve. Let them deny that this was their intention all along. They will continue to lie about “Global Climate Change and Warming” or whatever they are saying now. Government energy policy = death, decay, decline.
Don’t sell your oil stocks
Also, I’m not an energy expert, but it seems the proper place for solar power is “downstream” as possible - ie) on individual homes or buildings. NOT “upstream” in large utility-scale aggregations.
Individual users with solar can manage inconsistencies according to their own circumstances. With utility-scale solar, an common problem, like heavy-snow, geometrically multiplies the consequences.
Its anti-fragile vs. fragile.
There’s a reason why the word Mental is in environmentalist
When That NORD pipeline that will bring Russian natural gas to Europe gets finished, Germany can add to its electric grid more gas fired generation plants. Natural is low in sulfur and just water vapor and a moderate amount of CO2 comes out as it’s burned.
Thanks for posting!
Rep. Ro Khanna
@RepRoKhanna
As Chairman of the
@OversightDems
’ Environment Subcommittee, I’m launching an investigation into how this mess unfolded. We need to know why so many fossil fuel sources failed, why ERCOT wasn’t better prepared, & who participated in the conspiracy to falsely blame renewables.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
We’ve now raised $2 MILLION in relief for Texans & are adding more orgs.Folded hands
I’ll be flying to Texas today Airplane to visit with Houston rep Sylvia Garcia (
@LaCongresista
) to distribute supplies and help amplify needs & solutions.
Let’s see how far we can go:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Natural disasters reveal how brutal & inhumane our system of inequality is.
No one should be left to fend for themselves in a natural disaster. This is why we insist on justice in climate policy. In a modern society, equity is as important as technology.
We must modernize.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don’t* pursue a Green New Deal.
Jamaal Bowman
@JamaalBowmanNY
The crisis in Texas right now is not an accident.
This is the result of energy policy that puts corporate profits over human life — and we’re going to end that reckless greed with a Green New Deal and transformative energy policy.
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Bryan William Jones
@BWJones
· Feb 16
This is a good time to note that the electrical grid in Texas was deregulated, privatized, and removed from interconnected networks to avoid federal regulation and increase profits to a small number of wealthy individuals.
... THEY NEVER LET A GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE.
There’s no way this story is true.
I posted it on Facebook and it was blocked by fact checkers in 15 seconds!
Thats a record for me. So it must be false.
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