Posted on 02/15/2021 7:20:08 AM PST by Hojczyk
Nearly half of the wind turbines in the state of Texas froze in recent winter weather, hurting state power supplies, according to state authorities.
Nearly half of Texas’ installed wind power generation capacity has been offline because of frozen wind turbines in West Texas, according to Texas grid operators.
Wind farms across the state generate up to a combined 25,100 megawatts of energy. But unusually moist winter conditions in West Texas brought on by the weekend’s freezing rain and historically low temperatures have iced many of those wind turbines to a halt.
As of Sunday morning, those iced turbines comprise 12,000 megawatts of Texas’ installed wind generation capacity, although those West Texas turbines don’t typically spin to their full generation cap
The outlet noted that the loss of power was largely offset by the fact that the remaining turbines were spinning quickly because of strong winter storm winds.
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turbines are frozen and solar panels are covered with snow just when we need reliable power the most.
'Elites' in the green movement can't be bothered with details... they're big picture guys. Life's realities & details are for people like us - the little people.
This is our future if biden gets his way.
With three blades over 200 feet in length and the top of the rotor arc over 600 feet on some...
That will take some time.
Like painting the Golden Gate Bridge, with lots of overspray.
I am fortunate that my power is still on, but I know some people without it. It is 18° now in Houston.
What do you do for a living? Or what did you do if retired?
The big, important people will be allowed to have gas powered generators. As for the little people just wrap up in blankets to paraphrase Jimmy Carter.
That deserves one of these. HUH!
That deserves one of these. HUH!
God works in mysterious ways...
maybe some people saw the light and will think differently about renewable energy...
I don’t think the blades have anti-ice, that is a problem.
Most solar panels are made in China.
Wind turbines made by Vestas Wind Systems are made in Denmark among other countries. Vestas is one of the largest wind turbine manufacturers(I once owned stock in the company).
then oil and nuclear could be discovered and people would rejoice in tearing down all those acres and acres of man made visual eyesores all over the world....Turn that land back to nature!......./s
I live in southern NH.
When I bought this house nine years ago I seriously considered putting in a large soapstone/cast iron wood stove. I have about 10 acres of mixed hardwood forest to cut from.
I had a Jotul wood stove in my previous house. Instead, I installed a Harman pellet stove insert in the masonry fireplace in the family room of this house. It was not cheap. It was about $5500 installed with a SS pipe going up the existing chimney. I am so glad I did now after running it for 8 winters. I can burn any kind of cheap wood pellet you can buy. It heats most of my house and uses about one 40# bag/day.
I clean it once a week. Takes about a half hour or so.
The pellets I buy come from mills right here in New England.
I still have a forced hot water boiler furnace in the basement. If the price of oil goes down. I burn more oil.
If the price of oil goes up, I burn more pellets.
Proof positive that renewables work as well as carbon based power systems and of global warming
Maybe dilithium crystals are next...
Proof positive that renewables work as well as carbon based power systems and of global warming. Believe or be reeducated!
The exploded reactors are SO radioactive that even robots melt.
It’s unfixable. Even after 10 years.
March eleventh 2011. Sound familiar?
When did Texas go green?
Hmmm... sounds like Texas could use a giagumtious injection of gloBULL warming.
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