Maybe they're an especially egregious example because of how fucked up their power grid is, but odds are it's not gonna be that much better when the rest of the country gets their own unique climate disaster.
Maybe they're an especially egregious example because of how fucked up their power grid is, but odds are it's not gonna be that much better when the rest of the country gets their own unique climate disaster.
Well, depends who you are. For the politicians this is no problem. There is a political solution to this. Texas gets 7% of its power from wind, and that hasn't done so well in the cold. They can just blame everything on Democrats pushing wind power and get away with doing nothing then get re-elected.
Honestly, isn't that what they do after all the other disastrous events, like school shootings. Blame it all on some random issue Democrats are associated with to deflect blame and then hope everyone forgets about it.
And we always let them get away with it! Weird
But it's not even true that wind did badly, renewables in Texas are performing at expected levels. It's the natural gas power plants that are the big problem in the cold. But good luck telling that to some chud, as you said republicans will just blame it on the democrats for pushing renewables and hope everyone forgets about it.
We did have some wind turbines freeze but a, that doesn’t account for the catastrophic level of failure bc we still mostly get our energy from gas plants like you said. And b, it’s because the wind generators weren’t properly winterize bc texas skimps out on infrastructure any chance it gets. They work fine in other colder states and in Europe we just purposely didn’t prepare for this, I’m not entirely sure they didn’t consciously do it so they could politicize it like this when it inevitably hit the fan.