I agree. He is sad because he is presenting a totally biased justification for
fossil fuels and taking a step backward from renewable. He doesn't like solar
or wind, OK, how about geothermal? Texas has lots of holes in the ground.
As I said, the problem is that ERCOT did not mandate preventive preparations.
They did not plan, for which there is no excuse. About half of the windmills
kept going, even without being winterized. Ercot is the Ted Cruz of
regulators, completely out of step with the needs of their constituents.
Eric
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Again your opinion, as the article explains the subsidies are partially the
blame which you totally ignore, as I sad you are but one opinion of many.
Bob Kasprak
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Back to the stone age. The real villain here is ERCOT. As the group in
charge, they ignored basic winterization, not only for wind generation but for
fossil fuel burning and nuclear. How does he explain that so many of these
plants went offline or were not even operating during or in the aftermath of
the storm?
Wind is a relatively small segment of Texas's generating capacity. Of course,
Peacock would rather subsidize oil and "clean coal" which was debunked back in
the Reagan era. [Reuters had an article within the past few days that oil is
becoming scarcer. Expect higher gas prices--soon.]
Of course, these problems never occur in Texas, so why waste money on
preparation?
Global warming? Can't you see it's snowing out?
10 inches of snow? We had that much a few days ago, dug out and got on with
our lives. Texas had highway disasters and power failures.
Failure to plan is planning to fail.
Eric
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Fyi
An other view-
With almost hundreds of thousands of Texans still without power—and many
without water—everyone is looking for someone to blame.
Peacock: Renewable Energy Failed to Keep the Lights on for Texans | Texas
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