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Solar Fails in Texas in Cold
Posted on 1/27/26 at 5:50 am
Posted on 1/27/26 at 5:50 am
Wind did well, solar not so much.
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Posted on 1/27/26 at 5:54 am to CitizenK
You will never have solar as a primary energy source. You can make coal burners 99 percent clean ( scrubbers during the Obama administration) and natural gas. Just like EVs. Hybrids worked well. Why the push to go completely electric with no infrastructure amazes me.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 6:11 am to CitizenK
Wasn't there a thread yesterday boasting about how much renewables TX has, and how great they held up?
Iirc lots of "told you so's" up in that thread.
Iirc lots of "told you so's" up in that thread.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 7:18 am to GeauxtigersMs36
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You will never have solar as a primary energy source. You can make coal burners 99 percent clean ( scrubbers during the Obama administration) and natural gas. Just like EVs. Hybrids worked well. Why the push to go completely electric with no infrastructure amazes me.
BTW, I agree but there are two main reasons for this (in the past). Government incentives and VC's controlling powerful purse strings.
With this Administration, the incentives are drying up; hopefully the VC's (and Banks) are lessoning their demands.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 7:36 am to GeauxtigersMs36
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Why the push to go completely electric with no infrastructure amazes me
To push the "new normal" of unreliable energy distribution.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 7:55 am to CitizenK
Posted on 1/27/26 at 8:47 am to GeauxtigersMs36
The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments were passed which required utilities to meet SO2 and NOx requirements. SO2 enabled utilities to fuel switch to low sulfur coal or install scrubbers. Also required installation of low NOx burners or SCRs. All any subsequent president did was through regulation, including our first Kenyan president. “Clean coal” has been around for decades. If a coal fired unit has electrostatic precipitators, SCRs, and scrubbers, it is as clean as it gets. Again, that’s been around for decades.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 8:51 am to HagaDaga
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Wasn't there a thread yesterday boasting about how much renewables TX has, and how great they held up?
Iirc lots of "told you so's" up in that thread.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 8:56 am to CitizenK
AGAIN?
Posted on 1/27/26 at 8:57 am to CitizenK
Even the WEF admitted this year that wind and solar are a failure and have now put Europe way back on energy. Cue the Germans laughing at Trump at the UN warning them of this back in 2017
Posted on 1/27/26 at 8:58 am to GeauxtigersMs36
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You will never have solar as a primary energy source.
Not now, nor in the next couple of decades, but I certainly wouldn’t say never. If they get batteries to be cheap enough we’ll be almost all solar one day. And it seems like they will.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 8:58 am to GeauxtigersMs36
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Why the push to go completely electric with no infrastructure amazes me.
The push was due to companies cashing in on government handouts. All electric never interested me at all. The limitations far outweighed the practical benefits. Now an F150 that gets 60 miles to the gallon? That's what we should be doing.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 9:04 am to GeauxtigersMs36
Vote D. All of the above.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 9:13 am to AGGIES
Solar works best on top of people’s houses as a supplemental source that lowers that house’s dependence on the grid. That’s it. That’s where govt agencies should be encouraging solar use.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 9:17 am to Penrod
China has gone “all in” on electric for what that’s worth..,
Posted on 1/27/26 at 9:18 am to CitizenK
makes total sense.....no sun, no power....
wind and solar will ALWAYS be supplemental energy, period.
wind and solar will ALWAYS be supplemental energy, period.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 9:21 am to VOR
quote VOR
China has gone “all in” on electric for what that’s worth..,
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China doesn't have "wind farms" but they are happy to sell those windmills to America. China uses coal.
China has gone “all in” on electric for what that’s worth..,
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China doesn't have "wind farms" but they are happy to sell those windmills to America. China uses coal.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 9:39 am to GeauxtigersMs36
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Just like EVs. Why the push to go completely electric with no infrastructure amazes me.
Infrastructure for what? I plug my EV in when I get home and use it a charger in November and December when traveling home for the holidays. There isn't a need for chargers except for long trips.
I am constantly amazed at the number of people that seem to think you need charging stations like you need gas stations.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 9:45 am to GeauxtigersMs36
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You will never have solar as a primary energy source. You can make coal burners 99 percent clean ( scrubbers during the Obama administration) and natural gas. Just like EVs. Hybrids worked well. Why the push to go completely electric with no infrastructure amazes me.
You know what's really clean. Nuclear.
We have come a long, long, long way from the 80's but the crazies that think we should only use renewables are too dumb to know that nuclear isn't some crazy catastrophe waiting to happen.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 9:55 am to GeauxtigersMs36
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You will never have solar as a primary energy source. You can make coal burners 99 percent clean ( scrubbers during the Obama administration) and natural gas. Just like EVs. Hybrids worked well. Why the push to go completely electric with no infrastructure amazes me.
Because tree hugging commie liberals have hated the oil and gas industry for decades. It's all about politics and their emotions, not facts.
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