Wind adds power to the grid, not capacity. You still have to build the same number of *real* power plants to add capacity to the grid. Wind is a silly little affectation that is distracting from the real issue.
Put your wind turbines out to sea, and have them electrolyse water to hydrogen, which is either piped ashore, or picked up by tankers with H2 compressors.
Use the H2 for cars and trucks.
Integrate the wind power and store it.
If you use wind for grid power, you must have almost an equal capacity of steam turbines idling, in case the wind dies over ten minutes!
Alternate title: “Texas in the power doldrums”
Agree - I can’t stop laughing. Who were the rocket scientists who decided that Texas could depend upon wind power to generate required electricity.
Living in a So. Cal desert area packed with wind turbines, it is obvious, even in the high wind pass location of these turbines, that there are days when NO WIND IS BLOWING.
That is why wind turbines are just more environmentalist BS. They can never be used as a replacement for other sources of electricity because they are not dependable. If it weren’t for government required subsidies, you wouldn’t find a wind turbine anywhere.
Wow an alternate energy source that is prone to not live up to its hype. Imagine that!
PING!! Adding “New Mexico” as a topic because our very own King Bill opposes more conventional power plants (especially one proposed on the Navajo reservation and supported by the tribe) and has pushed into law that 15 percent of the states power must come from renewables by 2015 and 20 percent by 2020. Guess we had better plan on Coleman lanterns and wood stove heat for calm winter nights in the future.
It was all up here in Oklahoma.
Send in Obama. That pompous racist blowhard has enough hot air to power a small subdivision. And if more is needed send in his pompous racist blowhard wife, and then you can power a small city on hot air.
But now because of the environazi's, we're going back wards with wind and solar power, where once again our comfort and industry are dependence on what "mother nature" throws at us at any given time.
It's absurd.