[Alberta's Child]

It is an informative article but the author is plainly full of crap.

He blames “wind power” for the Texas debacle even though he had just gone to such great lengths to explain the details of a very similar situation more than 30 years ago THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH WIND POWER.

[BfloGuy]

He blames “wind power” for the Texas debacle even though he had just gone to such great lengths to explain the details of a very similar situation more than 30 years ago THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH WIND POWER.

"American Thinker" has some good articles but they also seem to print anything that comes along -- even with very bad writing such as this one.

[tbw2]

Agreed. Our problems in Texas include:
* really only building unreliable wind power (demonstrated by rolling blackouts every summer for the same reason)
* subsidies for wind and solar resulting in shutting down smaller natural gas and coal plants
* not building reliable infrastructure fast enough to keep the lights on despite 500K people moving here a year
ERCOT chooses to emphasize conservation, instead, despite the growing load.

[Political Junkie Too]

He blames “wind power” for the Texas debacle even though he had just gone to such great lengths to explain the details of a very similar situation more than 30 years ago THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH WIND POWER.

I thought the point he was making was that it was a cascade failure.

He explained how the sudden surge in gas consumption caused a failure of the gas delivery systems (like in 1989), but in Texas this surge was caused by people being driven to gas heating due to failure of the wind generation to supply enough electricity to power home heaters.

-PJ

[Chgogal]

Wind power is an interruptible supply that is treated like a firm supply by know nothings (politicians on all sides, but especially Kerry, Obama, Biden and AOC). Ditto for solar. Electric utilities have to buy electricity from both wind and solar suppliers and then when they do not perform, the utility has to go into the market and purchase what the inefficient interruptible wind and solar suppliers don't produce, at a much higher price especially in critical time. If I were a utility and were allowed to do what made sense I would charge the correct pricing signal to the interruptible suppliers. Right now that is not happening. My guess, this pricing malfunction is causing market disruptions.

[ballplayer]

Oh really,Ted Danson in 1980 was warning the earth had 10 years until total destruction because of Global warming,climate lunatics,that was 40; years ago