Post by
Owlseye1 on Feb 24, 2021 12:37pm
Take your solar back to Texas!
Didn't work there surely not going to work here. Storm was a good wake up call!!
Comment by
felix10 on Feb 24, 2021 6:32pm
Solar wasn't the big problem in Texas. Traditional oil wells froze as did the refineries. And renewable energy only makes up less than 25% of the power supply in Texas. So there's lots of blame to go around.
Comment by
mugs19 on Feb 24, 2021 11:40pm
When the wind and solar failed, it left a shortage of power ~20 -25 %. This meant a rotating "brown-out" trying to service everyone on a rotational basis. During the "brown-outs" (Ie: no electricity) the Natural Gas Plants had no electricity to funcion and hence froze in. It may be a little simplistic but it is close to the basic facts to us commoners. mugs
Comment by
mlcb2525 on Feb 25, 2021 9:56am
The failure in Texas was across the board, fossil and renewable as none of the infrastructure was winterized (i.e., not just renewable or renewables was more to blame, etc....)
Comment by
lashing on Feb 25, 2021 10:46am
No it was the wind and solar that caused the problem and you greenies keep ignoring Texas had to bring coal plant back online to save the day
Comment by
felix10 on Feb 25, 2021 3:56pm
No it was the wind and solar that caused the problem and you greenies keep ignoring Texas had to bring coal plant back online to save the day Absolutely not true. See my previous post which included a link with details about what actually happened.