re: Donors tied to pipelines accused of triggering blackouts gave $6.3M to Texas officials

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Some of the generation failures were at natural gas facilities. But feel free to make up whatever.

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That cold took a nuke reactor offline.

We’re also paying bitcoin miners millions to pause ops when it’s 110 outside.

Good times to be a Texan.

109 in DFW today absolutely smashing the prior record by 9 degrees. It’s almost mid September for chrissakes.

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remind me, why are the power grids failing in Texas again? Don't think it's those pipelines and fossil fuels is it?

Some of the generation failures were at natural gas facilities. But feel free to make up whatever.

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The fossil facilities were stressed to the breaking point because on day 1 of Snowpocalypse, the combined availability of Texas solar and wind was in the low single digits. So yeah, you just make up whatever.

The crap you're mindlessly parroting comes from an incompetent yet highly woke UTexas prof. I've met and interacted with the guy personally on several occasions. He is a discredit to the entire profession of engineering.

The roots of the Texas grid problems can be traced to Wall Street LBO vultures KKR, who did a hostile takeover of the main owner of Texas power generation plants, TXU. They famously boasted that they would scuttle all of TXU's plans for fossil fuel plant growth, which they did. They also told the governor that there was nothing he could do about it. This is all public record. Then, proving there is some justice in the world, TXU went BK under their "guidance" and they took a haircut, but not before they installed a crapton of corner-cut "renewable" generation capacity in place of clean coal and NG plants that were planned. There's the facts, deal with it.

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Some of the generation failures were at natural gas facilities. But feel free to make up whatever.

That cold took a nuke reactor offline.

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A nuke plant owned by recently bankrupted TXU, that was running at max to make up for completely offline "renewable" generation capacity. Like any company going through bankruptcy, desperate to cut costs, they probably said "Let's cut cost by not insulating those coolant uptake pipes, we might not ever need that in Texas". It was a frozen coolant inlet that caused the shutdown. See my post above for WHY they were driven into BK. Hint: It's because they were forced into huge "green" energy investments.

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Tomlinson is also trying to defend his criticism on those concerned about relying on wind and solar too much who he called “Fossil fuel-supporting Chicken Littles” right before winter 2021.

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All of the climate change BS goes back to one thing: $$$$$$$$$

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Nuke cooling system freezes and you blame renewables. That’s some shite right there. You win the mental gymnastics medal for today.

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It's called root cause analysis, a concept beyond the comprehension of a drooling parrot like yourself.

Still think who can make contributions to La Public Service Commisioner candidates would make Texico blush- hint Entergy