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whopis01

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81. The turbines are an incredibly small part of the problem.

Wed Feb 17, 2021, 10:23 AM

Feb 2021

The power lost due to problems with natural gas and other fossil fuel generation systems was an order of magnitude greater than the power lost due to wind turbines.

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This is a good time to note that the electrical grid in Texas was deregulated, privatized, and remov [View all] soothsayer Feb 2021 OP

KNR niyad Feb 2021 #1

Kick dalton99a Feb 2021 #2

He's such a turd soothsayer Feb 2021 #4

Now, let's not go rubbing his nose in that tweet Grokenstein Feb 2021 #11

Lying Ted can fuck himself. rickyhall Feb 2021 #15

(when inspiration strikes...) orleans Feb 2021 #59

Get thee to the greatest page malaise Feb 2021 #3

Trickle down is shorthand for UpInArms Feb 2021 #5

You used North Shore Chicago Feb 2021 #9

They sure pissed over all of us malaise Feb 2021 #21

Tom Harkin said Oldem Feb 2021 #16

Perfect malaise Feb 2021 #19

Reminds me of an experiment I heard about years ago. jaxexpat Feb 2021 #29

So basically ... 'Eat shit and fry' Celerity Feb 2021 #46

Or baked, with cloves and pineapples. jaxexpat Feb 2021 #65

Except there is no way maxrandb Feb 2021 #49

True, but you must appreciate how they've shaved the milling costs. jaxexpat Feb 2021 #64

It has since been renamed: tinkle down economics Purrfessor Feb 2021 #68

Tom Harkin said Oldem Feb 2021 #18

It is actually called Horse and Sparrow economics. gab13by13 Feb 2021 #26

Or for the cruder crowd, Horse shit economics rurallib Feb 2021 #31

John Cornyn Budi Feb 2021 #6

+1 dalton99a Feb 2021 #12

Cornyn doesn't even know what he is talking about. Mr.Bill Feb 2021 #62

Someone makes bank OldBaldy1701E Feb 2021 #80

First thing Texas Governor Abbot did was scream for help from the Soshlist nanny state Roisin Ni Fiachra Feb 2021 #7

And the first thing Joe did was help. Did not make them grovel or beg soothsayer Feb 2021 #14

I wish he had told them to go rake their lawns. 33taw Feb 2021 #28

Or forests Celerity Feb 2021 #47

So much of our National Power Grid is Wellstone ruled Feb 2021 #8

Yep. musette_sf Feb 2021 #10

I remember those 1970s bumper stickers bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #13

Can't do schadenfreude on this one. RVN VET71 Feb 2021 #24

This Ferrets are Cool Feb 2021 #71

I remember the ones that said Leith Feb 2021 #34

So much winning with privatization. Liberal In Texas Feb 2021 #17

Well, it doesn't produce Co2. plimsoll Feb 2021 #39

KnR sarchasm Feb 2021 #20

Texas could use some global warming and fossil fuels right about now IronLionZion Feb 2021 #22

Turbines are part of the problem. gab13by13 Feb 2021 #27

It amazes me that something like a turbine would even have such an option rurallib Feb 2021 #32

Cold weather states use deicing systems IronLionZion Feb 2021 #60

By far the largest part was natural gas pipelines and compressors froze IronLionZion Feb 2021 #53

The turbines are an incredibly small part of the problem. whopis01 Feb 2021 #81

And Republicans would like the rest of us to live in the same conditions TeamPooka Feb 2021 #23

it also relies on wind power according to Houston Chronical SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2021 #25

Wind Turbines work fine in Minnestota, Sweden, the Artic Circle obamanut2012 Feb 2021 #33

Eastern Washington. plimsoll Feb 2021 #40

Wind turbines are freezing. SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2021 #54

Something like Tbone P.... Karadeniz Feb 2021 #63

Thank you Karadeniz! SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2021 #74

T. Boone Pickens? House of Roberts Feb 2021 #75

Yes. He died 9/11/19 SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2021 #76

Wind is currently only about 13% of Texas' power & it's been overproducing... CaptainTruth Feb 2021 #41

Ironically named "Energy Reliability" progressoid Feb 2021 #45

a major rethink is in order. SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2021 #55

Wind wasn't the problem. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #50

I also heard a discussion NPR this afternoon whereby the "energy expert" HUAJIAO Feb 2021 #58

Not good timing. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #61

ERCOT is a piece of shit organization, and guess what? ananda Feb 2021 #30

From what I've read, TX was never on the national grid... Wounded Bear Feb 2021 #35

As I said in an earlier thread, there is nothing wrong with the infrastructure. BobTheSubgenius Feb 2021 #36

Well it was. Now they're going to be answering all sort of things for a week or more Clearly fogged in Feb 2021 #78

El Paso not on the grid,,, benld74 Feb 2021 #37

Republicans can't govern. It's been obvious for decades, since Eisenhower left office. SunSeeker Feb 2021 #38

Does Ted Cruz, John Cornyn, Greg Abbott and all their extended families have power? Fla Dem Feb 2021 #42

Smells like Enron. C Moon Feb 2021 #43

YEP! Rebl2 Feb 2021 #67

Ted Cruz: "Socialism sucks". But, it's OK to suck all the electric power NCjack Feb 2021 #44

Only 3 grid in the lower 48, one of them is Texas Ziggysmom Feb 2021 #48

Oh, We Know Why! Deacon Blue Feb 2021 #52

Rt TY Smh.. & Texas Suffers bc Cha Feb 2021 #51

The travesty is that they don't understand they voted for this. Elections have consequences. nt live love laugh Feb 2021 #56

That falls on deaf ears. BigmanPigman Feb 2021 #73

I would never have assumed anything else. dchill Feb 2021 #57

So how's Rebl2 Feb 2021 #66

Yeah, Texas has always been very generous to "energy providers." The electrical grid buys energy, so Nitram Feb 2021 #69

And they think they can successfully secede! obamanut2012 Feb 2021 #70

Wealthy WARM individuals, you can be sure. Kablooie Feb 2021 #72

K&R MustLoveBeagles Feb 2021 #77

Kind Of Disagree, But We'll See modrepub Feb 2021 #79