You know very well Fox is framing this so their idiots will blame the wind turbines. Q level misinformation. Wind currently provides 25% of Texas's power. The fact they are freezing just means they are not helping No causal effect.
The fact they went off the grid is the real culprit. Think Fox News and the other conspiracy outlets will tell their people the truth????
We want our freedumbs...we want our freedumbs. Well now you are free to freeze your dumb asses off.
The short bit I read said "Half of Texas wind turbines freeze, hurting energy production". That's a pretty simple statement, and as far as I can tell, accurate.I heard on NPR that the grid issues are exponentially magnified because Texas in their infinite wisdom decided that they wanted an isolated grid from the rest of the country so they can't get surplus power from the neighboring states like pretty much every other state.
The short bit I read said "Half of Texas wind turbines freeze, hurting energy production". That's a pretty simple statement, and as far as I can tell, accurate.
Everything is bigger in texas. Apparently the fuckups tooTexas power generating capacity* is greater than any other state, and by a bunch.
These are 2019 figures for the top ten states, and the total US power generation capacity
The capacity shown is in megawatthours.
2019 US Total Electric Power Industry Total 4,126,882,144
2019 TX Total Electric Power Industry Total 483,201,031
2019 FL Total Electric Power Industry Total 245,603,485
2019 PA Total Electric Power Industry Total 228,995,331
2019 CA Total Electric Power Industry Total 201,784,204
2019 IL Total Electric Power Industry Total 184,470,052
2019 AL Total Electric Power Industry Total 142,679,433
2019 NY Total Electric Power Industry Total 131,603,289
2019 NC Total Electric Power Industry Total 131,173,861
2019 GA Total Electric Power Industry Total 128,691,569
2019 OH Total Electric Power Industry Total 120,001,126
Texas has the generating capacity equal to 11.7% of the total for the whole country.
Takes a real Texan to fuck that up.
* Source:https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/state/
Hurting production is not the same as "primarily responsible for outages". Guess which one conservative outlets are running with?The short bit I read said "Half of Texas wind turbines freeze, hurting energy production". That's a pretty simple statement, and as far as I can tell, accurate.
Which also means they can't sell excess power to other states.I heard on NPR that the grid issues are exponentially magnified because Texas in their infinite wisdom decided that they wanted an isolated grid from the rest of the country so they can't get surplus power from the neighboring states like pretty much every other state.
You would, cause it is a Greenman magnet... err I mean it pure bullshit..... oh wait I repeat myself.The short bit I read said "Half of Texas wind turbines freeze, hurting energy production". That's a pretty simple statement, and as far as I can tell, accurate.
What do you want me to say? I'm not in Texas, and I don't know if ice buildup affects windmills. I would certainly expect it to, as the blades are stationary at times and if they iced they might not start spinning again till they thaw out. The other issue that comes to mind would be ice buildup on the blades. I could see that being a problem, depending on how robust the bearings and support system are.Why on earth would right-wing people with connections to the fossil fuel industry lie about ‘frozen wind turbines’ in Texas?
Disinformation has been circulating about the cold snap in Texas, fed by Republicans and publication ‘experts’ with convenient connections to gas and oilwww.independent.co.uk
What do you want me to say?
God dammit MrSquished! I wanted to say something along the lines of "I want you to say that you aren't going to just take whatever bullshit chain emails as gospel anymore and that you're going to apply some critical thinking to things" but yours is more pithy.Nobody wants you to say shit. Do a little reading, use a little common sense, do this thing called thinking, and then figure it out.
There are working windmills in Antarctica, Fucking Antarctica. What could one conclude from the fact that windmills work just fine in Antarctica? Would it cause someone to think that they just might work if the temperature is below freezing or it snows?What do you want me to say? I'm not in Texas, and I don't know if ice buildup affects windmills.
Interesting thread. Seems to me that there's a direct connection between being gullible enough to believe that wind turbines are the cause of a massive power blackout in Texas, and being capable of believing that expecting corporations to actually fulfill their contractual obligations to their paying customers is socialism.
I mean.. you just can't make this shit up.
What do you want me to say? I'm not in Texas, and I don't know if ice buildup affects windmills. I would certainly expect it to, as the blades are stationary at times and if they iced they might not start spinning again till they thaw out. The other issue that comes to mind would be ice buildup on the blades. I could see that being a problem, depending on how robust the bearings and support system are.
I find it bazar that frozen windmills are a political issue. That they work and produce clean energy was never in question. That it's profitable to run them is beyond doubt. That they don't work without wind is second grade physics. The devices are spinning or they're not, someone should mosey on over to one, have a look, and settle the question.
And perhaps the extra cost was hard to justify for a cold weather event that might take the wind turbines out of service for a week every twenty years. This kind of thinking is probably also behind decisions that left other fossil-fueled generating resources unprepared to operate in such cold conditions.
Callout getting more traction
‘Brazen lie’: Chris Hayes calls out Gov. Abbott, Fox News for Texas power grid lies
“But to the purveyors of the big lie—Republicans like Greg Abbott and his friends on Fox News—this very real and acute suffering is just a vehicle for their political objectives,” says Chris Hayes of the GOP blaming the Green New Deal as millions of Texans freeze.www.msnbc.com
Cant some of these dorks be sued for slander or something?
"...These charlatans that will lie to people for power and profit."
Somebody get Tina.The role of government is to organize the Thunderdome right?
Texas: 'Freedumb costs money but at least those filthy feds won't have their hand in our business.'I lived in texas when they started to deregulate their power system in the late 90s and early 2000s (moved out in 07). it was sold that it would lower prices and nothing of the sort happened, the prices went up and up.
Accurate, yes. Accuracy does not necessarily equate to honest portrayals of the situation.The short bit I read said "Half of Texas wind turbines freeze, hurting energy production". That's a pretty simple statement, and as far as I can tell, accurate.
What do you want me to say? I'm not in Texas, and I don't know if ice buildup affects windmills. I would certainly expect it to, as the blades are stationary at times and if they iced they might not start spinning again till they thaw out. The other issue that comes to mind would be ice buildup on the blades. I could see that being a problem, depending on how robust the bearings and support system are.
I find it bazar that frozen windmills are a political issue. That they work and produce clean energy was never in question. That it's profitable to run them is beyond doubt. That they don't work without wind is second grade physics. The devices are spinning or they're not, someone should mosey on over to one, have a look, and settle the question.
The short bit I read said "Half of Texas wind turbines freeze, hurting energy production". That's a pretty simple statement, and as far as I can tell, accurate.
I find it bazar that frozen windmills are a political issue. That they work and produce clean energy was never in question. That it's profitable to run them is beyond doubt. That they don't work without wind is second grade physics. The devices are spinning or they're not, someone should mosey on over to one, have a look, and settle the question.