Posted on 02/20/2021 7:44:24 AM PST by madison10
My TDS suffering brother is constantly telling me how much better Michigan is than Alabama.
Yikes! I’m in Texas and haven’t ever seen a water softener installed.....outside.
Every one that I’ve seen are inside garages.
It isn’t better by any stretch. Just different. Our government here is way too leftist currently.
I have friends in northern Alabama whose only weather complaints are of the oppressive, hot summers.
A similar set of conditions hit north Texas in 2011. Not once in a century.
But no one expected them to do the stupidest thing - turn off power to natural gas wells as “industrial” and then be surprised they didn’t have gas for homes or natural gas power plants.
Agree. I do not think it is dependable enough on its own. A strong windstorm would take any of those out fast.
So what provides the heat? And at what cost.
Whole article sounds like a salesman's pitch.
Wind and solar should only be used when it is economically feasible, without gummint handouts.
If wind and solar can compete with gas, coal, nuke then I'm all for it.
I don't give a fat rat's ass about the murder of millions of birds, but why can't I shoot hawks?
There are more protected hawks in W PA than there are doves or robins {slight exaggeration}.
Drove up US-127 in October... The ugliness of the windmills is overwhelming ....
Yes, they look awful and they do kill birds. They look bad from MI81, too.
Environmentalists must be conflicted: animals/nature, or Green Energy, which one wins?
It IS a salesman’s pitch. DTE wants more money.
https://www.abc12.com/2021/02/18/dte-energy-seeking-11-increase-to-natural-gas-rates/
The Adirondack Mountains in NY State also have alot of windmills towering over the scenic trees. Wonder how the tree huggers feel about that look.
More fun with windmills;
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“An increase inambient temperature, wind, or solar radiation may cause sheets or fragments of ice to loosen and fall, making the area directly under the rotor subject to the greatest risks. In addition, rotating turbine blades may propel ice fragments some distance from the turbine—up to several hundred meters if conditions are right.”
This is from a wind turbine manufacturer.
One of the points our paid experts made when a local group I was associated with made when we successfully fought off a (foreign owned) complex in my backyard
What cinched it though, was forcing them into a Property Value Guarantee
The went running away the day after that passed our zoning board
Phoenix gets cold from time to time but not the bone chilling cold Texas just went through. I worked in Canada for a few years. You would get freeze warnings. In Phoenix a freeze warning means cover your plants. In Canada it men’s exposed skin can freeze in 10 minutes.
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