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Doesn't winterize wind turbines Blames turbines for not working when it freezes. I'm so freaking tired of hearing this.

• edbob 6y ago
  All sources were notoriously un-winterized, but wind generation had the additional problem of not working when there wasn't enough wind, which is why it dropped to 0 at one point. Suggesting that wind would perform adequately if it were only winterized is simply inaccurate. It's common knowledge among non-zealots that wind and solar are far too unreliable to supply baseload generation needs, and that unreliability led to a missing 15-20 GW of generation when we needed it. Base load must be supplied by something else, like perhaps nuclear which performed pretty well despite not being winterized.
  • edbob 6y ago
    Correcting myself here. Wind output dropped to a low of 2% of capacity, not 0.