The Green New Deal has come, believe it or not, to the state of Texas. How’s it working out so far?
Well, the good news is all that alternative energy seems to have had a remarkable effect on the climate. Sunday night, parts of Texas got the temperatures that we typically see in Alaska. In fact, they were the same as they were in Alaska. So global warming is no longer a pressing concern in Houston.
The bad news is, they don’t have electricity and many are still waiting a response from their business electricity supplier . The windmills froze, so the power grid failed. Millions of Texans woke up Monday morning having to boil their water because with no electricity, it couldn’t be purified.
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Blackouts Hit 13 States Beyond Texas in Deepening Power Crisis
Blackouts are spreading across the central U.S. as an energy crisis that has already brought Texas’s power grid to its knees deepens.
The Southwest Power Pool, which controls a power grid spanning 14 states from North Dakota to Oklahoma, ordered utilities to start rotating outages, after exhausting all other options to protect its massive system from failing amid an unprecedented cold blast. Millions of homes and businesses in Texas are already without electricity, and the grid operator there has warned they may be in the dark through Tuesday as temperatures are forecast to remain low.
“It’s a step we’re consciously taking to prevent circumstances from getting worse, which could result in uncontrolled outages of even greater magnitude,” Southwest Power Pool said in a statement Monday. “In our history as a grid operator, this is an unprecedented event.”
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Texas: Winter Weather, Iced Wind Turbines, and Rolling Blackouts
More than 2.5 million people in Texas are currently experiencing rolling blackouts as temperatures remain in the single digits in many parts of the state. The Lone Star state is currently short of electricity because half of the Texas wind fleet (the largest in the nation) is iced over and incapable of generating electricity. Additionally, the natural gas infrastructure Texas has become so reliant upon has also frozen up.
Texas’s experience highlights the perils of becoming overly reliant upon wind, solar and natural gas because these energy sources are not as reliable as coal or nuclear power during extreme weather conditions. Nuclear and coal plants have a distinct advantage in extreme weather conditions because they store week’s or month’s worth of fuel near the power plant.
In contrast, wind and solar depend upon the weather, and natural gas relies upon just-in-time delivery of natural gas via pipeline.
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Joseph Stalin Mao Biden and John Green Jobs Kerry, just made fools out of themselves. Secondly: “Millions of Texans woke up Monday morning having to boil their water because with no electricity, it couldn’t be purified”. How could the Texans boil water, without electricity? I honestly thought the Teas politicians would have been smarter than relying on John Kerry’s green energy, especially with the major problems they have had in communist California, with power shortages.
RIGHT ! That statement shows how DUMB they actually are . Please tell me HOW you BOIL WATER without ELECTRICITY ?
Gas stoves, Coleman camp stoves, Gas grills, wood stoves…
I’m sure there was boiling water before electricity was harnessed for domestic use.
I live in a house that is total electric. I live in rural Iowa. We have occasional outages but there is a wood burning stove should all else fail.
If your in a home without gas it is always a good idea to have some form of fossil fuel back-up.
OR
You can wait for the government to come save you.
Gas stove?? Charcoal grill?? Build a wood fire in the ol’ fireplace? Ever camp?
Duh, most houses in Tx have gas. But there are other options. I didn’t have electricity the past 2 days and I heated my dinner in my fireplace – as I am one that doesn’t have gas.
I do it with gas…
This is EXACTLY What they wanted.. To make us all be in the dark… BUT YOU CAN BET NONE OF THEM are.
During power outages, people who have gas ranges (hand-lit if electric pilot lights don’t work) and/or propane hot plates can manage. All-electric homes without propane hot plates or other camping stoves are out of luck. Of course, eventually the propane gets used up.
With how the left’s going after gas and oil drilling, i wonder how long folks will STILL be able to get those propane tanks.??
Can’t say they weren’t warned, no one can predict the weather with certain accuracy, of course climate change is totally different (is it?). Needless to say the wind and the sun do their own thing and no one can control them. No wind or frozen wind generators produce no power in Texas. Solar panels buried under snow in Germany produce no power. Maybe John Kerry can unfreeze the tubines with the exhaust from his private plane and AOC can sweep snow from buried solar panels hoping the sun will shine on them. Remember: those now out of work fossil fuel workers can find comparable jobs in the green energy field, some day!
Kerry wouldn’t DEMEAN himself, by cleaning off turbines, neither would AOC… THEY GOT their own servants to do that.
What Kerry needs to hear. “Your fired! Go learn to code.”
Glad I don’t live in Texas. Where I am it’s been way down below zero in the last few days. Even though this is now a blue state the power stayed on but not due to anything a Democrat has done. I credit our previous conservative administrations for setting up a good system.
I wish all Texas conservatives a warm thought. When this is over you better get to work if you don’t want this to be your future. It sounds like Texas has been Californicated.
As for the Texas liberals I see you have your power cord plugged into a windmill. You better get those unicorns hitched up or just sit and whine while you freeze your butts off. Maybe thoughts of AOC will keep you warm.
And that’s the thing. IT matters not if the dems are in charge or not, WE ALL suffer, from their stupidity.
The Fools voted for the “Socialist Democrat Party State”, now they can be happy……….. NOT! 🙁 🙁 🙁
The “Socialist Democrat Party State”, political officers and Gestapo are just getting started enforcing their Will and policies upon us.
You will obey, be loyal and support the “Socialist Democrat Party State” or you will be classified as
“Enemies of the State”.
[Former CIA Director John] Brennan was on MSNBC a week or three ago, contending that American intelligence agencies “are moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about” the pro-Trump “insurgency” that harbors “religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.”
I am now officially “An Enemy of the State”. Why? Because I am a proudly Unhyphenated American. That makes me, according to Brennan, a “Nativist”. I am not a “Color” I am Caucasian, Colors are for paint. Or, in the case of Liberals, Crayons.
I am shocked, biden hasn’t ALREADY Reappointed him head of the CIA…
At least 11 people have died from the rolling blackouts. I’m sure Kerry and Biden will only chalk it up to collateral damage for the greater good.
They really don’t care about people, so you are probably right !
3 more died from a tornado in north carolina.. STRANGE for them to be getting twisters!!
They’ll probably blame the deaths on COVID.
Tornado victims died from covid… news at 10.
They will probably refer to Cuomo’s playbook to justify the deaths…… In other words, blame President Trump.
Six more people than those who died during “The Insurrection”…how many times have you heard about these poor souls compared to the January 6 debacle????
OTHER than the cop who died, very rarely..
Democrats are going to do everything in their power to turn that conservative State BLUE ! If you don’t know the reason for that, it is because of the HUGE amount of Electoral votes that State has. they want to do whatever EVIL thing possible, to make sure that a Republican President is NEVER elected again ! All the California people that have moved to Texas recently, REALLY WORRY me, as I do NOT want them to bring their LIBERAL, LEFTISTS views to Texas with them !
That is why so many of the CA fleers, are flooding INTO texas, to RUIN THAT STATE just like they did ca.
I don’t know if that is their intent, but between the influx of Kalifornikans, other Blue Staters, and the illegal aliens flooding across the Rio Grande, my Texas is under a siege that reminds me of the Alamo. Of even greater concern to me is the Aztlan separatist movement in the Chicano movement.
Already happened, friend…those Californians are brainwashed Lefties just looking for lower taxes, cheaper houses, and friendly rural people to condescend to.
I shouldn’t laugh, but I will anyway…
As I always say: “Where would ‘Gallows Humor’ be without the occasional hangin’?”.
What? You mean windmills that are frozen solid DON’T produce any electricity?
And Solar Panels covered with SNOW DON’T produce electricity?
And FROZEN lakes and rivers DON’T produce electricity?
Shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
As a power sysem engineer for 30 years, I have expected this problem to happen and thought it might happen in Colorado first. When asked, I say that wind and solar power are like alcoholic beverages, it should be used in moderation but not as the primary part of the diet. It was published about 20 years ago that Spain and/or Germany learned that a renewable portfolio standard above 20% was a point that reliability was at risk. At that same time, it was obvious that natural gas pipeline capacity was a concern getting power to the Northeastern US. I suspect that is still a problem as more coal units are replaced with natural gas generation. More proof that elections have results.
I’m sure in northern climates they opted for the undercoating, tinted windows, paint protection and THE FREAKING DE-ICING upgrades.
When i replaced all my guttering, 4 years ago, THAT IS SOMETHING i wish i had gotten installed.. Those heating de-icer strips for the downspouts and such…
have to ask how many people went to the hospital or died as a result of the massive failure of GREEN ENERGY.
I called it the minute I heard they didn’t have the resources to provide power . I new it was because the Wind turbines had failed. Probably solar as well.
When are all you sheeple going to wake up and realize that MAN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE is a theory . They throw a few numbers around and make you think that they have proven that theory when the have not.
I have said it before and will say it again. If the people pushing this Sky is falling doom and gloom nonsense about CO2 really believed what they were saying they would be raising money to meet the crisis which is suppose to last decades . They just create catastrophes like this and ignore the damage that they cause repeating their lies and mantras and depriving the people of this planet of proven dependable technologies that have helped to save lives and bring people out of poverty and despair.
You’re speaking to the choir.. SO don’t try lecturing US..
Occasionally, the choir need a reminder, not a chiding from a drive by.
The current “Cold Snap” is a reminder of the wisdom our mothers and grandmothers before them: “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” applies as much to energy sources as it does to sources of protein.
You vote for it, you live with it, right?? How many people knew that Lurch would return with an OBiden administration…if they gave that any thought at all?? It is definitely factual that the Democrats are very loyal to their tired or demented retreads from the past…like Weekends at Bernie’s in the District of Corruption.
Oh, they’re not alone. I voted for the WW II Veteran, as he was better than the alternative, Sarah, because she is infinitely better than her running mate was, and the “Morinomon” because even he was better than the alternative – barely.
Thing is, NOT ALL OF US voted for them.. Hell, i doubt a single person on this site, voted for biden…
In my state, I am more familiar with off grid solar power. Using solar power is great when not living near an electrical grid or you chose not to use the electrical grid. But you are a fool, if you depend solely on green power and not have a generator and gasoline to run the generator.
We installed solar panels on our RV, to give us freedom to go where we want and park where we want for the night. Of course, the RV has a generator and we have had to use it to charge up the batteries to the solar panels, because of the weather. Being dependent on solar only, would make us fools.
There is the hypocrisy of the “green only” people. They are the “for thee, not for me” hypocrites. How many people who are so gun-ho for “green energy” even know that for “green energy” to get to their homes/business, it has to go thru the electrical grid??? Or they do know, but no big deal because they are using “green energy”.
Seeing what is happening in TX, hopefully people there and in other states will realize they have been duped. Then again, once the temperatures warm up, all will be forgotten.
And forgotten, as swiftly as the newest new cellphone ap, comes out..
But never fear the politicians are safe inside the razor wire fence sucking off the taxpayers for their survival necessities.