Who wouldn’t trust the author of the first article, Tyler Durden

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if data’s wrong show where

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all out attack on the sources

what a shock

I thought Texas only got 20% of its power from wind?

Why doesn’t wind turbines in other cold areas have problems operating?

Do you know who Tyler Durden is?

Greg Abbott as AG sued the EPA so that Texas wouldn’t have to winterize its electrical generation or grid.

This is a failure of conservative free market, low regulation ideology when it meets the real world.

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Zerohedge got banned for life from Twitter for stories about the origin and dangers of the mysterious virus sweeping Wuhan in January 2020. They then got reinstated months later because even Twitter had to admit that they had been wrongly banned.

They have proven that they are willing to speak truth to power, unlike whatever unidentified rating source that disparages them.

If you have gone to college, you’ll understand that sources are of the utmost importance. Zero Hedge is not reliable; therefore, do not base your research on them. They are full of ■■■■ .

Please provide a link to your source. What is their credibility?

The data show nothing of the kind, nor did Joe Biden have anything to do with the nature of Texas’ power grid in the first place.

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Been discussed multiple times. Biggest factor was cut in natural gas electricity production.

RINO Dan Crenshaw confirms:

Low Supply of Natural Gas: ERCOT planned on 67GW from natural gas/coal, but could only get 43GW of it online. We didn’t run out of natural gas, but we ran out of the ability to get natural gas. Pipelines in Texas don’t use cold insulation —so things were freezing.

It’s estimated that of the grid’s total winter capacity, about 80% of it, or 67 gigawatts, could be generated by natural gas, coal and some nuclear power. Only 7% of ERCOT’s forecasted winter capacity, or 6 gigawatts, was expected to come from various wind power sources across the state.

Production of natural gas in the state has plunged due to the freezing conditions, making it difficult for power plants to get the fuel necessary to run the plants. Natural gas power plants usually don’t have very much fuel storage on site, experts said. Instead, the plants rely on the constant flow of natural gas from pipelines that run across the state from areas like the oil and natural gas-producing Permian Basin in West Texas to major demand centers like Houston and Dallas.

Texas natural gas pipelines froze. Natural gas energy therefore dropped. Politicians blamed frozen wind turbines.

This will all be dismissed though. So like I said, what’s the point?

In the winter ERCOT had 10% planned for renewables, it goes up into the 20’s during summer.

40% of natural gas and coal generation was sidelined. Overall it was a systemic failure. The first day it started freezing some of the cranks out there tried to make it about wind turbines, it’s just being silly at this point.

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Even with the frozen wind turbines, wind power produced more energy than ERCOT expects of it this time of year.

Three times as much energy was shut down due to the frozen natural gas lines…but yeah…wind power is to blame.

And somehow Joe Biden, who is not from Texas, and never has held public office in Texas, is to blame for the structure of Texas’ power grid.

:roll_eyes:

The flights of fancy in this narrative are legion.

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I watched Greg Abbott go on TV and blame the renewable sources and tell everyone how evil the “green new deal” was. Then the press started broadcasting the facts. And the next day Abbott had to backtrack big time. And then later that day he was on Fox News again blaming the renewable sources. He has now said that there will be a investigation. He knows what that will show. And the dancing will be epic.

how did Wind shut down all those natural gas plants?

it blew them right over. they call this the “three little pigs” effect in the power industry

whenever i see a “source” of news that immediately gets a snarky attitude like the idiot dallas news i completely ignore them

because their childish attitudes deserve that

whether gas was there or not to provide power, for whatever reason, point still stands wind mills didnt cut it

Yet they function perfectly well in Antarctica. Go figure

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yeah look at those babies spin

They did “cut it”.

They produced more power than was expected of them during the time period of the snow and cold.

It was the natural gas lines that did not.