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re: Texas is dominating green energy, beating states where billion are invested.
Posted on 3/25/25 at 11:49 am to RaoulDuke504
Posted on 3/25/25 at 11:49 am to RaoulDuke504
Helps when North Texas is one of the windiest areas in the country
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Posted on 3/25/25 at 11:55 am to RaoulDuke504
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Less regulations and private sector investments something California hates
This is the answer. Texas makes it easier to build, so more stuff is built there. Some of that stuff is renewables.
Blue states can’t learn this very simple lessons. Oh well.
Posted on 3/25/25 at 12:03 pm to RaoulDuke504
Being right at the intersection of the Wind Belt and Sun Belt has its advantages. Texas has the perfect geography for wind and solar.
I was always a solar skeptic, but last year I bought a travel trailer with a complete 12V system. Last week I was at the beach running my fridge, AC, and two devices on nothing but the solar panels.
I was always a solar skeptic, but last year I bought a travel trailer with a complete 12V system. Last week I was at the beach running my fridge, AC, and two devices on nothing but the solar panels.
Posted on 3/25/25 at 12:06 pm to Tantal
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I was always a solar skeptic, but last year I bought a travel trailer with a complete 12V system
That's different than covering hundreds/thousands of acres in that shite, which has to be subsidized repeatedly.
Posted on 3/25/25 at 12:26 pm to redstick13
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Windmills dominate the landscape everywhere west of Dallas.
only because they're tall enough to see from miles away on the highway.
working pumpjacks still easily outnumber them.
Posted on 3/25/25 at 12:33 pm to RaoulDuke504
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Texas is dominating green energy, beating states where billion are invested.
When you finally realize the biggest money makers from "green energy" are big oil and gas consumers it will finally make sense.
Posted on 3/25/25 at 12:36 pm to LemmyLives
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That's different than covering hundreds/thousands of acres in that shite, which has to be subsidized repeatedly.
I'm not completely knowledgeable of the economics of it at scale, but in my small application, it works well.
Posted on 3/25/25 at 12:58 pm to RaoulDuke504
It's almost like business friendly government and less regulation breeds innovation for the greater good in capitalist states.
Posted on 3/25/25 at 1:42 pm to RaoulDuke504
This is actually old news - Texas has had more renewables capacity than something like the next three largest states have installed combined for over a decade.
One of the fun facts about Texas is that you can go to the ERCOT dashboard and see in near real time what the current state power demands are and where it is coming from, along with the forecast for that day. ERCOT Dashboard.
One of the fun facts about Texas is that you can go to the ERCOT dashboard and see in near real time what the current state power demands are and where it is coming from, along with the forecast for that day. ERCOT Dashboard.
Posted on 3/25/25 at 1:45 pm to NYNolaguy1
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Need more nuclear.
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Thorium or fusion is the way.
Thorium molten salt reactors would be a nice stopgap before fusion reactors are completed.
Posted on 3/25/25 at 1:59 pm to RaoulDuke504
You see two things in W Texas these days:
1. Acres and acres of lots full of old oil field pumps;
2. Miles and miles of windmills.
1. Acres and acres of lots full of old oil field pumps;
2. Miles and miles of windmills.
Posted on 3/25/25 at 3:38 pm to Tantal
1) as someone said Texas has an incredibly unique geography where they have some of the highest wind/solar potential of anywhere. That’s important because states with only wind or solar potential hit saturation much faster. The complementary patterns of wind/solar allow for more buildout
2) actually Texas spent billions of dollars building transmission lines to bring wind power to the urban population centers. Google CREZ. They just framed it as a cost saving instead of climate savings so people didn’t get all worked up.
2) actually Texas spent billions of dollars building transmission lines to bring wind power to the urban population centers. Google CREZ. They just framed it as a cost saving instead of climate savings so people didn’t get all worked up.
Posted on 3/25/25 at 3:44 pm to LemmyLives
Enjoy the brownouts this summer
Posted on 3/25/25 at 3:54 pm to Tmcgin
I’ve lived in Houston for 17 years. There’s been 0 brown outs. We are able monitor the ERCOT capacity and forecasted energy usage daily. Last year we hardly even came close to hitting max capacity
try again.
try again.
Posted on 3/25/25 at 3:56 pm to el Gaucho
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They got rid of the steers because of the methane they produce
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and now it’s just the people who had to leave Louisiana just to find a job
Producing all the methane?
Posted on 3/25/25 at 5:32 pm to Penrod
You mean the place where the sun shines 250 days a year, and the wind blows 350 days a year, has actual renewable energy scalability in ways that places with intermittent winds and 150 days of sunshine a year can't?
Shock and astonishment. Shock and astonishment.
Its almost like markets dictating where green energy can make *some* sense, and where its entirely an exercise in self-congratulatory ego stroking.
Shock and astonishment. Shock and astonishment.
Its almost like markets dictating where green energy can make *some* sense, and where its entirely an exercise in self-congratulatory ego stroking.
Posted on 3/25/25 at 6:04 pm to BoardReader
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You mean the place where the sun shines 250 days a year, and the wind blows 350 days a year, has actual renewable energy scalability in ways that places with intermittent winds and 150 days of sunshine a year can't?
Well, you’re right, but the state has a lot to do with it. Texas is a state that likes development and gets permits done quickly; blue states make it much more difficult.
This is a live topic among left wing thinkers. They set up regulatory roadblocks because they were anti-development, but then they tried to pivot to green projects but the same roadblocks are tripping them up - high speed rail in California? Wind turbines offshore? Hydrogen plants? They are all bottled up in the blue states.
Posted on 3/25/25 at 6:04 pm to Dallaswho
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It’s more of a “do whatever the political donors want”
Welcome to American politics
Posted on 3/25/25 at 6:23 pm to Dixie.Reb
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They just framed it as a cost saving instead of climate savings so people didn’t get all worked up.
IDGAF about the climate change bullshite. If wind and solar are economically viable (without bullshite government subsidies) in Texas and will actually save us money, I'm all for them.
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