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Section 25: Miscellaneous Subject: Tesla destroyed by fire Msg# 1159245
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Here are the main reasons that Texas had such a huge crisis during the cold weather in 2021:
If not for those two items, Texas would have been able to weather that winter storm. You cannot spin this in any way to blame on failure of anternative energy. If Texas had acted responsably to begin with, the crisis would not have happened. It makes NO difference what happened in previous or subsequent years. The responsibility for the failure lies with the irresponsible politicians who chose to do #1 and #2 above. So, don't bother sending links to your propaganda machine. [And, if you didn't catch my drift, calling people "greenies" and other names, is very childish and diminishes any possible trust or belief in the support of your arguments. Just the facts, if you don't mind.] |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: I've read numerous articles, on both sides of that Texas freeze up question. And I suspect all that issue was already discussed here, about a year ago. It all can be summarized by looking at the numbers for elec generation on the date in question Feb 15 2021, vs generation for that same date, one year earlier. Here's a link examining those numbers Click Here When you look for the discussion of "numbers" you'll find quotes like this: "There are literally no numbers in Krugman’s article (except for numerals referring to dates), which is a signal that he’s pulling a fast one on his readers. . ." "Yet as we’ll see, the actual numbers tell a much different story from what most Americans probably “learned” from the media discussion." Here's some numbers from their charts -- I'm seeing power from natural gas rose from 398,000 Mwh the earlier year, to 759,000 Mwh for 2021 the year of the freeze, an impressive rise of 361,000 Mwh. Coal also helped, rising from 132,000Mwh to 204,000 Mwh in 2021, a rise of 72 Mwh. When the frigid weather occurred coal & natural gas production of power surged ahead. But wind power declined from 264,000 Mwh a year earlier, down to 73,000 Mwh. And the percentage figures show a similar pattern. Natural gas was covering 65% of the power generation, and wind, only 6 % when the big freeze occurred. That's a huge failure, and Wind shows up at the center of the power scarcity problem. Regardless of all the rhetoric of the greenie media -- looking at other possible scapegoats. Media were wrongly trying to divert attention away from the wind failure. Tomorrow I'll try posting here a couple of the charts from that reference. |