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Most of the capacity lost was fossil fuel based. In fact solar generated more than expected. So how exactly are renewables the problem here? Even nuclear went
by socialdemocrat 6y ago
Most of the capacity lost was fossil fuel based. In fact solar generated more than expected. So how exactly are renewables the problem here?
Even nuclear went down due to frozen pumps.
And how is more coal the solution when these kinds of event will just become more common with global climate change?
Should we not push for changes which halts the ongoing climate change?
- beckingz 6y agoWind was supplying more power than forecast right as total capacity plummeted...
- nickysielicki 6y ago> In fact solar generated more than expected. This is technically true, but kind of irrelevant to the big picture. Solar beat expectations, which is great until you realize how little it was expected to produce in the first place. Solar and wind do not scale to demand as well as non-renewables. And look, I'm not saying that Texas should have invested in coal, I'm saying that it's tone deaf to admonish them for not embracing green energy when they did embrace green energy pretty strongly, and when their lack of capacity currently is mostly about their lack of production in renewables. The core problem is that you can almost always burn more coal or NG and get more juice out of the coal and NG plants. But you can't make the wind go faster, and you can't make the sun shine brighter or longer. Had they invested in an abundance of non-renewables, people would not be freezing in their dark homes right now. It's not Texas fault, proponents of green energy need to have a better answer for this.
- benlivengood 6y ago> Even nuclear went down due to frozen pumps. That doesn't sound at all like a potential disaster. Presumably the emergency cooling pumps didn't freeze.