I thought I made it blatantly clear that I see the culprit not in green energy but that garbage was purchased and constructed that was blown out on weather conditions that did not even beat 4 standard deviations. Quality natural gas powered plants can easily withstand much more extreme conditions than the one witnessed. And setting up wind turbines in Texas is almost as clever as setting up nuclear reactors on Japan's tectonic fault lines.
Simple math problem for you two. A typical 1.5 MW class wind turbine weights 162 tons. How many wind turbines worth of c02 do our Nat. gas plants fart out per year into the atmosphere and not a nice and tidy landfill? You know how i know you've never lived in Texas? Because you make an asinine statement like "wind turbines in Texas don't make any sense". See, I'm a Texas native, and sure we've got more fossil fuels than we know what to do with. We've also got tons of arid, flat, open land that's good for nothing, with plenty of sunshine and wind. So your argument really boils down to: They should burn nat. gas but in the right way because they're running wind turbines in the wrong way, it's stupid. the whole story stinks to high heaven. Almost everyone heats w/nat gas down there, heat pumps aren't as common as one would think and no one runs resistive heaters. So this whole thing wasn't a demand issue as air handlers aren't as power hungry. Something went really fucked up w/the grid.
Sure and you have some of the most violent hurricanes every other year. Good luck fixing your wind mills each time, Mr. Texas native.
Power generation wasn't winterized well enough (or at all). https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-frozen/
No surprise, one incompetent hand blames the other. America deserves better than being served by mediocre officials, mediocre wind turbine technology, mediocre gas powered plants and mediocre nuclear power plants. All three sources of energy can be built to withstand much worse weather than seen and hence the only logical conclusion is that the chosen plants lack the quality, rigor, and craftsmanship that should be expected of them.
Wind turbines are in W. Texas dumbass. You know how I know you've never visited Texas? You think Gulf hurricanes hit Marfa, Midland, and El Paso.
Actually Spanky, ,I lived in Texas for many years. And no, there are no hurricanes in West Texas but there are tornados, hurricane force straight line winds and dust storms. Your attempts to be an expert at things you know little of are falling flat I haven't put a fool on ignore for months, thanks for the opportunity.
whaaaa? We can't engineer wind structures to withstand winds? Guess what, we can, just as we can design around frost. We can also buy insurance like we do for trailer parks in tornado alley. Stay triggered snowflake.