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Texas will be powered by wind and solar while supplying the rest of the country with oil and natural gas.

• FatDrunknStupid 8y ago
  Sorta like 'Don't get high on your own supply".
• MrMember 8y ago
  Not a bad idea if they can properly prepare for the oil money eventually drying up, like Norway with their Oil Fund.
• johnchristopher 8y ago
  Isn't that the rational thing to do ? On a related note I began watching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkupert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkupert yesterday.
• tpkj 8y ago
  Well, I'm aware of at least one company based in Texas trying to supply homes not just in Texas with solar. https://www.sunnova.com/ https://www.sunnova.com/ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sunnova#section-overview https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sunnova#section-over...
• Kadin 8y ago
  That's probably not a terribly stupid idea; transporting energy as gas in a pipeline might be significantly more efficient than electricity through wires. The oil and gas are going to be extracted as long as the global market prices make it worthwhile to do so. The only way that changes is if renewables come down in price enough to make fossil extraction uneconomical. So the more we build out, the better, even if it happens at the same time as fossil extraction.