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> remind me of the folks who said that Texas power blackouts last year were because we had too much wind and solar. It's a slice of truth Is it really a slice
by eesmith 4y ago
> remind me of the folks who said that Texas power blackouts last year were because we had too much wind and solar. It's a slice of truth
Is it really a slice of truth, or a convenient lie? Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis :
"State officials including Republican governor Greg Abbott[13] initially blamed[14] the outages on frozen wind turbines and solar panels. However, data showed that failure to winterize power sources, primarily those of natural gas, had caused the grid failure"
citing, among others, "Republicans use Texas power outages to spread false claims about green energy" at https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-texas-power-outages-spread-false-claims-green/story?id=75947664 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-texas-power-outa...