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re: If Texas's central grid only relied on solar & wind energy, would anyone have electricity?
Posted on 2/18/21 at 9:48 am to goofball
Posted on 2/18/21 at 9:48 am to goofball
Omg jackass—-everything shut down. Wind, solar, nuclear, NG! What about this don’t you understand. It all froze— nothing was working. How hard is that to comprehend?
This post was edited on 2/18/21 at 9:51 am
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Posted on 2/18/21 at 9:50 am to The_Duke
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Omg jackass—-everything shite down. Wind, solar, nuclear, NG! What about this don’t you understand.
False. Natural gas is the bulk of the energy output in Texas. Even during the worst of the crisis, it never fell off like wind and solar.
Posted on 2/18/21 at 9:52 am to The_Duke
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Omg jackass—-everything shut down. Wind, solar, nuclear, NG! What about this don’t you understand. It all froze— nothing was working.
Don’t take this the wrong way. But do you know how to read a standard graph and recognize tends?
The only thing that completely shut down was renewables. And this coincided with a reduction in energy output from NG and a spike in demand.
Posted on 2/18/21 at 10:00 am to The_Duke
Everything failed, some more than others, but it’s been decades in the making. Instead of incentives that drive us to invest in unreliable sources, those sources should be penalized to pay for their backups during the time we need them and they aren’t available.
Nuclear deserves a look, it’s very reliable but we fear a disaster (how many died at three mile island, actually?). Coal is reliable as is gas if you tell the producers you are depending on them.
Old tech fossil fuel systems used to work better than this. What changed?
Today wind and solar look very expensive to me.
Nuclear deserves a look, it’s very reliable but we fear a disaster (how many died at three mile island, actually?). Coal is reliable as is gas if you tell the producers you are depending on them.
Old tech fossil fuel systems used to work better than this. What changed?
Today wind and solar look very expensive to me.
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