> So we should be talking about how natural gas and coal failed ... That's a fair point, though, that wasn't really the point of the writing. It was simply to

> So we should be talking about how natural gas and coal failed ... That's a fair point, though, that wasn't really the point of the writing. It was simply to understand the enormous complexity of the situation from an economic standpoint. It's also fair that the author might not have been up to date with the latest information. In the early days of the mess, wind was initially suspected to be the main culprit, primarily from the surprise to the general public that wind turbines and ice don't mix[0] and the general sport that northerners have of laughing at the "snow-challenged" when the rare white hell falls from the sky[1]. [0] I live near the thumb in Michigan. We like to take our kids to the wind farms. There are many, many reasons that a given generator will have brakes applied, including "too much wind". People laugh at that stuff, but it's "by design" and is part of a system. [1] We laugh unfairly when Atlanta gets an inch of snow and more people die in two days than die in an entire winter up here, but it ignores the reality that our local governments stockpile salt/sand and have dozens of trucks/expertise to handle substantially more snow. Put us on roads with no clearance and a bunch of drivers unfamiliar with snow and we'd be just as at risk. Or toss a coastal-state problem like a tidal wave/tsunami, in the state that's laughing and they'd fare about as poorly.