Wind/solar should not be such a large a large portion of - the energy grid. These are not cheap,

Posted: Feb 19th, 2021 - 1:20 pm In Reply to: And yet they have perfectly fine wind turbines - in Canada and Antarctica

not reliable, not recyclable, and probably several additional negative points. Texas needs several more nukes to be brought online. They don’t depend on external supplies like coal and natural gas which has to be shipped to the generating plant.

As I understand it the wind turbines in Texas have a de-icing feature available that might have helped with freeze up, but Texas for some reason opted to NOT have that feature installed on their wind turbines. Heard that yesterday either on OANN or Newsmax. Somebody wanted to save $$ I would assume.

Also I hear gas lines froze because they were not winterized either, but if the resources from wind and solar would have gone to fossil from the beginning would that have kept this from happening.

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