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More people died in the Texas grid failure last year than have died in all the Nuke plant accidents. Unreliable power is dangerous too.
by StillBored 5y ago
More people died in the Texas grid failure last year than have died in all the Nuke plant accidents.
Unreliable power is dangerous too.
- ncmncm 5y agoThe Texas grid failure was a product of under-regulation, not use of renewables. Responsible management requires back-up generation capacity that works when needed. What failed in Texas was that the (gas-fired) back-ups were not mandated to work when cold, and so didn't.
- StillBored 5y agoA large part of the "under-regulation" is that renewables aren't required, like other parts of the system to assure availability and file offline requests. Combined with the fact that wind/solar economically pressure the reliable sources, because they only make money when the green energy sources fail, means that basic maintenance/etc gets deferred. So, sure shift the blame to the "backup sources" rather than mentioning that the wind farms were operating at something like 5% of the nameplate capacity.