Texas is currently suffering an unprecedented winter storm that's left its unprepared power grid woefully unable to provide residents with power they need to heat their homes. Let's see what conservative politicians think the takeaway is here:
The state agriculture commissioner:
The governor:
Yeahhhhh
about that:
Quote:
Officials for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, which manages most of Texas’ grid, said that the primarily cause of the outages on Tuesday appeared to be the state’s natural gas providers. Many are not designed to withstand such low temperatures on equipment or during production.
By some estimates, nearly half of the state’s natural gas production has screeched to a halt due to the extremely low temperatures, while freezing components at natural gas-fired power plants have forced some operators to shut down.
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It's estimated that about 80% of the grid’s capacity, or 67 gigawatts, could be generated by natural gas, coal and some nuclear power. Only 7% of ERCOT’s forecasted winter capacity, or six gigawatts, was expected to come from various wind power sources across the state.
Crenshaw eventually admits this, but zooms right on past it to ultimately blame renewable energy:
The funny thing about this is, wind turbines can work in winter. Natural gas can work in winter. But in order for that to happen you have to prepare for cold weather, which Texas did not. They are in the cluster**** because
they did not plan for it, but Dan Crenshaw and his merry band of idiots would have you blame renewable energy. They're not interested in fixing the actual problem. Texans should be furious at these people, but most of them are probably clutching their flags for warmth and blaming Obama or something
Last edited by goofyballer; 02-16-2021 at 11:27 PM.