World’s ‘solar and wind capital’ freezing due to snow ‘blanketing millions’ of solar panels

....on your schedule. And where's the link?

 

Not justified.? Tell that to the people who lost power. Wind turbines in other affected States are doing fine.

And the Governor was blaming wind turbines! Get a grip on the facts.

 

PBS is not averse to interviewing RW professors.

 

This is the result of 25 years of Republican leadership: People going without food, water, power, or heat, in sub freezing temperatures

 

No other interviewee opposed him. The point, however, is that the decision not to weatherize was a perfectly defensible business choice, not requiring any sort of political basis.

 

More speculation. We do know the Arctic is warming, more rapidly than lower latitudes.

 

No, the governor is not blaming wind turbines exclusively. The problem is that wind turbines are only a minor part of the problem because so few have been installed so far. Had there been more then the problem would have been worse.

 

To which the response is: So what?

 

There may be fewer cold snaps, but some of those that do occur could be more extreme--or so the theory goes.

 

"Broadly accepted"?? Here is what "broad" means.....

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-frozen/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88a7pv/no-frozen-wind-turbines-did-not-cause-the-texas-blackouts

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/v...rify/287-6bcde08d-80a0-47cc-9181-f4a45044fcf2

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-blackouts-wind-turbines_n_602c4e16c5b62767c0aaa263

https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/202...ent-the-main-culprit-for-texas-power-outages/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...k-swan-blackout-everything-went-wrong-at-once

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...sely-blame-renewables-for-texas-storm-outages

Even the RW NYPost says the problem is lack of weatherization - https://nypost.com/2021/02/17/texas-power-outages-fault-of-unique-supply-not-green-energy/

But here's what RW Fox says - https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/...ines-are-hampering-states-power-output-report

 

That's just the greenies shifting blame once again, they have no integrity.

The fact is , very little, if any, power has been produced by solar and wind, the last week at a time with greatly increased demand.

 

The newables failed BEFORE the gas and coal and nuclear. In fact the gas and coal and nuclear had made up for the loss of wind until it hit single digits and some of that failure goes to "green" policies of less gas production and fewer coal plants.

"Texas energy regulators were already warning of rolling blackouts late last week as temperatures in western Texas plunged into the 20s, causing wind turbines to freeze. Natural gas and coal-fired plants ramped up to cover the wind power shortfall as demand for electricity increased with falling temperatures.

Gas-fired plants produced 43,800 MW of power Sunday night and coal plants chipped in 10,800 MW—about two to three times what they usually generate at their peak on any given winter day—after wind power had largely vanished. In other words, gas and coal plants held up in the frosty conditions far better than wind turbines did."


"Between 12 a.m. on Feb. 8 and Feb. 16, wind power plunged 93% while coal increased 47% and gas 450%, according to the EIA. Yet the renewable industry and its media mouthpieces are tarring gas, coal and nuclear because they didn’t operate at 100% of their expected potential during the Arctic blast even though wind turbines failed nearly 100%."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-spins-into-the-wind-11613605698?mod=opinion_lead_pos1

 

When was climate change never here?

 

It's in every story about the TX outages.

And I've put links to several stories.

 

That's quite the vivid imagination.

 

All the Texas right wing politicians being called pout for the HYPOCRITES they are as they all try to blame the slightly over 10% of the states electric generation derived from renewable sources for the almost complete failure of the entire states electric grid. What they fail to mention and this includes Abbott the governor plus Ted Cruz, john Cornyn and Crenshaw how much they rely on oil and gas money to finance their campaigns , money talks.

 

That's a lie. It was Texas' unregulated energy policies that caused the problems.

 

Not that much more expensive, it's about 5% more expensive

 

When you refuse to provide a source most people will presume you don't have one.

"Those coal fired plants failed." dairyair

OTOH, I assumed that you had a source for that statement.
Please share it with me.

 

Clean coal is just normal coal that has gone through a process and the CO2 emission captured. There is no such thing as clean coal as other compounds are still released such as mercury, sulphur and nitrogen gases.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-coal-pollution/

And the first "clean coal" site in the US was the Petra Nova facility at Houston and there are many sites now all over the US and worldwide

 

Most people have read the news on the topic.
Abbott tried to blame wind turbines.
Then Abbott had to back track his lies.

The source for my statement has been linked in several posts.

If you are not capable of reading stories on the internet or even going to a tv station to listen. Let me know. I'll see what I can do.

Do you deny Coal plants failed in Tx?

 

My point is simply that lack of weatherization is a hindsight problem. Beforehand, it was broadly agreed, regardless of political orientation. Indeed, some of those who didn't think it was needed were those most in favor of rapid wind power development -- hardly RW.

 

Found it
https://www.joc.com/utah-clean-coal-mining-plan-blocked-clintons-monument-designation_19961229.html
No it doesn't burn clean. It burns hot and doesn't give off little sulphur, but it gives off Co2 just like any fossil fuel.
Sorry.

 

I just asked for your source.
I am puzzled by you failure to provide one.

Exactly how did these "Coal plants" fail?

 

Do you think no coal plants failed?
Why won't you answer?