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I find it really weird that everyone is jumping to blame wind here, but totally ignoring all the natural gas plants that are turned off.
by ashtonkem 6y ago
I find it really weird that everyone is jumping to blame wind here, but totally ignoring all the natural gas plants that are turned off.
- Analemma_ 6y agoIt's not "weird", it's the result of deliberate enemy action. There's a propaganda machine running full-tilt as we speak to paint this as the fault of wind power, when wind was actually overproducing compared to ERCOT's models.
- mullen 6y agoRight Wingers don't care about solutions, just their narrative. So windmills are to blame and the gas plants are okay.
- hristov 6y agoIt is even weirder than you find it. When you read towards the end of the article, it says "Most of the power knocked offline came from thermal sources, Woodfin said, particularly natural gas." So natural gas and other thermal sources (i.e., coal and nuclear) created most of the problem. Wind power is actually potentially a very good solution for occasional cold spells, because extreme colds usually comes with high winds. Of course you have to design your turbines not to freeze.
- eropple 6y ago> Of course you have to design your turbines not to freeze. While true (and I'm not saying you don't know this, more just pointing it out), wind works great in cold climates. We've done our homework on this one already.