I honestly have no giant beef w/nat gas used for elec. generation or heating. It was just preposterous to suggest the outages in Texas were caused by wind turbines and it reeked of an opportunistic press hit job. That headline just confirms their PR moves.
Look at those fucking stooges. Every time there is a crisis American leaders first put on a NASA space exploration jacket with lots of lapels attached to show everyone "I am an important person". Laughing my ass off. America, the great show in total crash descent. Meanwhile the Chinese are catching up at lightspeed. The GdP takeover will take place years ahead of schedule and people are covered by energy and food and medical care. Even the poorest farmer in the most remote part of China. What a shame and how sad. Rome burning... And what is even sadder is that while the plane is descending hard the passengers are still laughing about the yellow people in Asia and the small brother to the north and those mass rapists down south. EDUCATION CAN'T FOOL PEOPLE.
And yet the sad thing is that once the @Mercors of the world heard it once on Fox it's gospel to them forever and they literally close their mind to even a single fact that would disconfirm what they now believe. I mean just look at this thread, the guy ignored post after post factually showing that his belief was obviously false, and then spouted that belief again as if none of the preceding facts had been mentioned, and when called on that just decided to ignore it all to avoid the cognitive dissonance that would come with admitting that perhaps the source of his worldview is lying to him. This willful ignorance on the part of so many otherwise intelligent Americans is just damn depressing when it comes to the future of the Republic.
Governor George W. Bush made Texas the leader in wind turbine electricity. Any intermittent power source when fed into the grid makes it more vulnerable and harder to keep in balance. The scientifically illiterate lawyers (mostly) who make these laws don't understand electricity or how the grid works. I'm not saying intermittent power was the decisive factor, but it makes sense that it was a contributing factor.
And solar PV generates even more waste, among other problems with the green energy dream: https://www.manhattan-institute.org/mines-minerals-and-green-energy-reality-check AND https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/default/files/R-0319-MM.pdf
Texas focused on maximizing efficiency while ignoring the robustness of the system, its ability to roll with the punches. This is a classic trade off. The decision makers may have been taking the global warmmunists seriously. For 20 years they told us we would all get warmer and warmer and snow would soon be a thing of the past, etc. Then they noticed that winters were getting colder and snowier, so they reversed themselves in recent years and started saying, "global warming is making it colder!" The so called theory is completely unfalsifiable. No matter what the climate does or doesn't do, they will insist that their pet hypothesis is compatible with the outcome. If the theory should happen to be wrong, how would we know? How would we prove it? Even when the climate gets cooler overall, they say, "It's only a pause!" You just have to have faith. The warming is coming. Only believe. That's why I call it the Climate Cult.