Posted on 02/24/2021 4:19:40 AM PST by SJackson
Texas can do away with renewable energy sources entirely and I will still predict that if they are hit with a similar storm ten years from now the results will be as bad, if not worse.
So vain!!
The useful/useless idiots eat up the climate change crap.
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Not if they spend some of the capital investment wasted on wind farms on reliable on-demand generation going forward.
Much scientific data indicates global cooling is on the way. I believe the arctic blast should be considered a wake up call.
Behold the pot calling the kettle black. The left has brought us so many painful culture war idiocies. Y-chroms in women's sports, men in the ladies' room and tampons in the men's room, racism under every rock, cultural appropriation taboos (oops, there's one now!), Confederate statues in your eyes, free speech zones, re-segregation, affirmative action, transgender surgery, the outlawing of conversion therapy...I could go on all day.
Yeah, like they're going to do that. Texas has the electrical grid that Texas wants, cheap and unregulated. Ten years ago Texas had a similar situation with weather and power loss. Hearings were held, reports were prepared, and nothing was done. I expect that the response to this latest disaster will be the same. And in 10 years Texas will be no better prepared for severe winter weather than they were last week. Except that rather than having a small percentage of their electricity lost to frozen windmills they will have frozen gas and coal plants unable to produce energy.
Yes, self-reliance will never be completely obsolete. There are dangers even in civilization, one being complacency. Suddenly your wilderness skills, or lack thereof, become relevant one chilly morning as the government cavalry fails to appear over the hill. Suddenly your survival isn't someone else's problem, no matter how many someone elses there are, close by.
The way things are going, we may all be in such a pickle very soon.
And they doubled the amount of wind generation in the intervening ten years.
So? Do away with renewable sources entirely and the rest of the grid can't handle freezing temps. That won't change.
After this last event? I would bet differently.
While such storms are rare here (particularly in the Houston area where I live), they are not unheard of. We did not have these power grid failures before "green energy"
Really? How much of Texas's power came from "green energy" during the 2011 winter storm that brought power outages to over 3 million customers?
The failure of Ercot was the failure to hedge natural gas prices for required peak shaving supply - resulting in inability to pay for the ramp-up in nat-gas power generation needed when the Wind froze. The whole shambles was a financial shambles - the spot gas price was unaffordable so the generating power companies just shut down the nat-gas generation all the while export gas was flowing. It was not until the Governor decreed no gas exports from Texas that the power came back on. The genius Ercot board of mostly lawyers from Illinois Penn and Michigan are having an emergency meeting today. Guess what Board - the emergency is over and it is 62 degrees in Houston at 8:15 am this morning. The deaths and injuries from Ercot’s gross negligence are astounding, not to mention the property damage.
I think global warming is incorrect. It will not be 10 years before this happens cold comes again. People better be buying cold weather clothing and not summer. Summers will be hotter maybe but winters colder.
Union too. Along with Lincoln and Washington, The Republic Chicago is reconsidering statues of Generals Grant, Sheridan, and Logan. Leif Ericson too, Columbus, Drake, LaSalle amongst others.
Though accurate, this significantly understates the lies of "Climate Change". First of all, the fearmongers don't simply predict "global warming", they predict Catastrophic Man Made global Heating. Absolutely the only "evidence" they have for this is computer models. The models don't even pretend to predict Weather VARIABILITY, they simply predict slight average temperature increases.
These modeled temperature increases come mostly from higher night time temperatures, not day time, meaning the predicted variability is even LESS than that of today. So, not only do they NOT predict colder winter storms, they predict fewer of them, too. In other words, the models don't predict climate change, they predict global warming. The simply changed the name to cover up the fact that their predictions don't match reality.
There is ample evidence that these models are inaccurate. They grossly overestimate actual recorded temperature data. They predict atmospheric "hot spots" which are not found in any actual data, and they fail to account for known ocean driven variabilities, to name but a few of the inaccuracies.
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