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What's actually happening in Texas?
Feb 17, 2021, 8:59 AM
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For FOX viewers:
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1361866553998909442?s=20
And, out here in the real world:
"As of Monday afternoon, 26 of the 34 gigawatts in ERCOT’s grid that had gone offline were from “thermal” sources, meaning gas and coal. The system’s total installed capacity in the system, Power magazine’s Sonal Patel noted, is around 77.2 GW. Wind and solar power, meanwhile, produced near or even above planned capacity, according to energy analyst Jesse Jenkins, as only small amounts of wind and solar are utilized in peaking conditions. Wind turbines did indeed freeze, and did eventually underperform. But so did natural gas infrastructure, and to a far greater degree."
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It's really a Conspiracy
Feb 17, 2021, 9:05 AM
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to convince the Cental American caravans that they dont really want anything to do with a Polar Texas...
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You don't want to see how much waste other energy
Feb 17, 2021, 9:07 AM
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production has then.
Also, irrelevant to 19B's post.
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They actually CAN BE recycled. It's just too costly to do
Feb 17, 2021, 9:09 AM
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so....
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So, really, your argument is that turbine blades take up too
Feb 17, 2021, 9:11 AM
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much space in landfills, relative to the 300,000,000 TONS of waste produced in the US per year? That's 600,000,000,000 lbs. 600B. With a B.
The space that windmill blades take up in landfills, next to the literal mountain range of garbage we produce every year as a country...that's your argument?
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it's that they suck with energy output, especially when you
Feb 17, 2021, 9:56 AM
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absolutely need it
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Re: this is exhausting
Feb 17, 2021, 10:59 AM
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Manac,
I hardly think that this is a significant problem in the overall scheme of things, but I have a solution for you - turn them into fencing - around the landfills or elsewhere. It you buried them 1/3 rd in the ground they would make great partitions - and could be painted whatever color would suit the situation.
I'm down for 10% of the profits from this brilliant idea, right ?
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34 GIGAWATTS????
Feb 17, 2021, 9:08 AM
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Did you see this?
Feb 17, 2021, 9:28 AM
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Doc and Marty made it to 2021. Marty is a little shaken up, but still, I really love this pic.
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Lot o points [154437]
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That makes me feel old enough to start drinking at 8:30am.
Feb 17, 2021, 9:29 AM
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Great pic doe.
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Orange Blooded [4365]
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Re: That makes me feel old enough to start drinking at 8:30am.
Feb 17, 2021, 11:00 AM
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Agreed on the pic. The joke was a bit weak.
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Re: What's actually happening in Texas?
Feb 17, 2021, 9:13 AM
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Foxworld is getting really, really good at that. I mean, that video of windmills coming apart was pretty epic, now put your talking heads on it. I mean, it's Texas we're talking about here. It's not hard at all to see the hand of Big Oil reaching into the Foxworld studio straight into the sock puppets of Fox's primetime opinion-host lineup...though it does take some next-level cynicism to blame the other party for a failure of a plan your own party created.
But dayum are they ever getting calculated about this kind of opportunistic thematic repetition. You really do wonder how much of Fox's payola actually goes on behind the scenes, and is negotiated over promotion over various corporate or industry interests, because it just seems far too systemic and calibrated these days too be random.
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Orange Blooded [4365]
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Re: What's actually happening in Texas?
Feb 17, 2021, 12:35 PM
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Yeah, and all of the Foxnews viewers are now convinced about these arguments against green energy - and NO amount of accurate information will sway them once they have established this "truth" in their minds.
Of ALL of the considerable problems facing our society, misinformation may be the biggest and most fundamental.
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Well that setlles it, let's go all in
Feb 17, 2021, 12:54 PM
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with solar and wind. Blow up all fossil fuel plants so we can't be tempted to use them again.
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