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Un-winterized anything freezes if it's cold enough. The nuclear power plants and windmills shut down too. The issue is that nobody spent money winterizing every
by mminer237 6y ago
Un-winterized anything freezes if it's cold enough. The nuclear power plants and windmills shut down too. The issue is that nobody spent money winterizing everything because they never expected it to get this cold there. It's an issue of how much you want to spend preparing for the worst, not an issue of what type of power source you use.
- pwinnski 6y agoNuclear went offline due to faulty metering equipment, was manually checked and brought back online. Some of the windmills froze, while others did not, and yes that was due to a lack of winterization (despite repeated recommendations to do so). But natural gas comprises more than 50% of our power sources, and was also not winterized, and we lost a huge percentage of our power as a result. So among our un-winterized power sources, natural gas fared the worst, which is relevant when deciding, for example, where to spend winterization money in the years to come.