Why The Texas Blackout Has The Greens
So Scared: Deflecting blame to a more
exciting apocalypse
FrontPageMag,
by
Rael Jean Isaac
Original Article
Posted By: OhioNick,
2/24/2021 12:23:06 AM
Last month, President Biden signed a series of executive orders undermining fossil fuels, on the grounds the “climate crisis” forced his hand. “We can’t wait any longer. We see with our own eyes. We know it in our bones. It is time to act.”
Within days, most of the country was seeing “with our own eyes” and feeling “in our bones” a cold wave so severe that five million people lost electricity and, in a special irony, nearly half of the ballyhooed wind turbines in Texas, which had risen to supply 23% of her energy, were left frozen (and inoperable).
Reply 1 - Posted by:
SALady 2/24/2021 12:30:50 AM (No. 706395)
One word: Secede!!!!!
Texas doesn't need the USA, and we certainly don't need a dictator-wanna-be like not-my-president Lyin' Joe Biden, to impose these idiotic, and now proven deadly, rules on our people!!!!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 2/24/2021 12:37:15 AM (No. 706398)
I saw a poster here say that Texas should have ignored that EO. I agree.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 2/24/2021 1:02:20 AM (No. 706405)
#2 - Yes, its easier to apologize than seek permission. Words to live by in today's world.
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Careful. Freezing people with broken pipes will turn on you.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/24/2021 1:54:49 AM (No. 706421)
If TX succeeds in leaving the USA, it's going to be flooded with patriotic people.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
KatieJo 2/24/2021 4:51:14 AM (No. 706456)
Yes #5, I will probably be one of them. I hope they'll let me in!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 2/24/2021 6:39:24 AM (No. 706494)
Atlas is about to shrug........stupid is now in charge of everything.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/24/2021 7:36:35 AM (No. 706538)
Wait . you people are blaming Biden because Texas went with the windmills.
They did this long before Biden. They listened to the envirowacko's and built the darn things and they are responsible for their own idiocy.. The State of Texas is at fault, not Biden.
Now admittedly Biden is a squirrel and wants to destroy the energy sources of the whole country, but Texas went off the deep end on their own, long ahead of Biden.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LLAMA 2/24/2021 8:12:49 AM (No. 706564)
This event was totally avoidable by all accounts. Already 5 members of the ERCOT BOD have resigned, and state investigatons are underway. Windmills are a total disaster; a joke that is not funny. The article points out that while 93% of the wind power being generated at the time the storm hit failed, not one gas powered power plant failed during the entire storm.
Not only are windmills useless when the "wind doesn't blow', but as now we know, useless in very cold weather (kind of like my super-efficient heat pumps). Windmills are an environmental insult, killing migratory birds by the thousands as they are unable to dodge the blade tips that are traveling at speeds up to 250mph (known on the west coast as the "Condor Cuisenarts".) The cost of manufacturing windmills requires god only knows how much energy supplied by the coal power plants in China, and transporting them burns huge amounts of diesel fuel in the ships and trucks that take them to west Texas. Disposal of the hundred plus foot long blades that fail presents a big problem finding landfills big enough to take them. Transporting the electricity hundreds of miles from the plains of west Texas to the big users in Central and East Texas requires condemnation of thousands of acres of good land for rights-of-way, and results in significant amounts of power loss in the transmission wires. Finally, the monstrous windmills are a visual blight on the landscape.
In my opinion, windmills are one of the biggest scams ever promoted on the people of this, and even other countries.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
downnout 2/24/2021 8:20:08 AM (No. 706572)
I noticed the electric car companies took heavy losses yesterday. Coincidence?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/24/2021 8:24:39 AM (No. 706578)
We in Texas were cheated, we thought we had 'Windmills' and we found out we were sold DIMmills...too lazy to work and froze up at the first mention of work!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 2/24/2021 8:40:11 AM (No. 706616)
Not to worry! The media will fill the airwaves with updates on Tiger Woods to take your mind off this enviro-fail.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Diamond Cutter 2/24/2021 8:52:26 AM (No. 706634)
I believe it was a planned attack by China and corrupt Joe .Weather pattern was very strange that week.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 2/24/2021 9:08:58 AM (No. 706663)
Hopefully, all those windmills and solar panels don't use any plastics - an oil by-product.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
planetgeo 2/24/2021 9:24:05 AM (No. 706679)
Looks to me like God decided to give us a demo on the realities of "green energy." Conclusion: green energy is sustainable only when you don't need it.
Unfortunately, I see that the Dimocrats, being dim, took the demo to mean that Texas really needs MORE green energy that doesn't work when you really need it. AOC and Chuck U Schumer, the wisest of the Dimocrats (scary thought) said so. And Joe (tell me what I'm signing) Biden confirmed it. So start shopping for your soon mandated coal-powered car.
Me, I'm going into the used (gas) car business, so when the US is like Cuba and only decades-old gas-powered cars work, I will be a trillionaire.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Speedy2 2/24/2021 9:30:00 AM (No. 706686)
Two wind farms in Texas are Chinese owned and a third is on its way. Wake up Texas!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Pammie 2/24/2021 10:40:48 AM (No. 706770)
REPLY #8- Windmills installed during the Obama-Biden era....asking for a fellow Texan!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MDConservative 2/24/2021 10:50:07 AM (No. 706783)
#1 - In effect, Texas did secede, from the national power grid. It was Texas that failed itself, from the Public Utility Commission, to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) that operates the electric grid and manages the deregulated market for 75 percent of the state, to generating companies that failed to "winterize" when they sell little power outside of air conditioning season. Blame, too, the natural gas providers whose wells froze cutting supply to power plants and residential customers.
#2 - That "E.O." had no effect whatsoever. Folks cherry pick verbiage from it. The state generators had already been granted relief from the emissions standards. The FEMA generators were given the same relief under the same conditions, which included certain hours of operation.
There were many contributing factors to this disaster, many unforgivable "human error." Texas needs to sort these out. The ERCOT board has all resigned. Others will undoubtedly follow as more facts emerge. Does the state mandate greater winterization of generation for a once in decades occurrence? Ka-ching! Consumers will pay for that, or taxpayers. Does Texas renounce its electrical grid independence and join the nation and accept Federal regulation?
You just don't fire up a plant and start pumping electricity into the grid...This is a very complex issue. The political stakes are very high.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Zigrid 2/24/2021 10:55:25 AM (No. 706792)
A picture can speak a thousand words... the frozen and snow covered solar panel pictures were deliciously exact...thank God Texas has oil and gas reserves to get them though the nightmare...and sleepy Joe loses another important test... now in his column there's the school opening... and the pandemic...and vaccine distributions...obama staff RE-installed with lack luster resumes... like garland for AG... is that spelled right?...he certainly is not the sharpest knife in the drawer... how will Hollywood spin this latest failure...even tweeter... I hear... is complaining...
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For all you texans out there, a bill has been introduced in the State House that will give us the opportunity
to vote on Texas leaving the union. tnm.me is where to go to join the effort, boots on the ground is what will
ultimately decide if we are going to be free.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 2/24/2021 11:07:02 AM (No. 706817)
Windmills are inherently unreliable. They WILL fail to provide power when you need it. Guaranteed to fail, CERTAIN to leave you freezing in the dark.
Solar panels are the same without a very large, and extremely expensive to buy, to operate, and to replace set of associated batteries. Not practical on large scale, barely workable on small scale if there are no other options.
"Green energy" is a very, very bad joke, one so bad that it will kill you.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Edgelady 2/24/2021 11:50:41 AM (No. 706856)
Voting on seceding and actually accomplishing it are two very different things. Do you actually think they’d let us leave without a fight?
And my memory is fuzzy on this, but there was something in the agreement when we joined that we’d never leave the union of states, but we could divide up into five states. I’ll leave to historians.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Kafka2 2/24/2021 12:18:57 PM (No. 706893)
Maybe if Washington, DC lead the way by supplying all their power by renewable source (no fossil fuels) the political types would experience the reality of their “green” agenda. Instead, they will inflect on us while they enjoy the comfort of fossil fuel supplied electricity.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 2/24/2021 12:42:13 PM (No. 706928)
I would love to finally see the fed up adults among us rise up and start deconstruction of the entire green movement. Give those spoiled and ignorant brats the legal paddling they deserve. The green movement has gotten so much more virulent since Gorbachev left the ruins of the USSR and headed for a greenie think tank.
Rush talked about it when it happened back then, saying that he fully expected the green movement to become more violent, toxic and fascist/marxist in its agenda, thanks to a commie heading up their biggest think tank. He said then that communism would never die completely, just morph into something else. Like the environmental movement.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 2/24/2021 12:45:32 PM (No. 706931)
#8, Biden is culpable, simply because he added a few frills and dressings in his first week or so that forced Texas to cut back on coal fired plants and use wind power instead. The blackout would not have been so devastating or state wide if Biden had not stuck his ugly nose into something like that. Just to get revenge for Obama is my personal suspicion.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Luandir 2/24/2021 1:32:11 PM (No. 706995)
Wind turbines can be winterized to operate in temperatures lower than experienced last week. Those in Texas were built with the expectation of a warming climate.
You screwed up! You trusted us!
/s
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
NoJokeMan 2/24/2021 2:55:26 PM (No. 707060)
Windmills are BS!!! However, don’t forget the big push by these imbeciles for electric cars. Here is an example of how ludicrous they are. Let’s say you live in Jacksonville, Fl and you drive a gas powered vehicle to Pensacola, Fl because of an ill relative you need to see. The drive itself is straight forward – take I-10 for 358 miles with an approximate driving time of 5 hours 30 minutes, which includes one 30 minute stop. Long, but manageable. Now, let’s drive it in an electric vehicle.
#1: Most electric vehicles have a 250 or less mileage range, unless you can afford a Tesla.
#2: Electric charging stations are not as prevalent as gas stations or truck stops.
#3: The charging speed varies depending on how empty the battery is and the size of the battery. Generally, as of November 2020 data, 15-25 miles added per hour spent charging is typical using a 240-volt level 2 charger.
#4: You have driven 200 miles and found an electric charging station. You still need to travel 158 miles.
#5: You pull into the charging station and lo and behold all stations are full.
#6: The line you are in has three vehicles before you.
#7: You now have to wait four hours to get 15-25 more miles which still leaves you short of the 158 you need to travel.
Need I say more? It appears the nuts who somehow have taken control of our country want everyone to live in urban areas so we can use our electric vehicles to drive 25 miles a day and no more! I say it’s so they can control everyone more than they do now. Pathetic!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Mike22 2/24/2021 4:19:45 PM (No. 707116)
Public documents indicate that Texas coal plants were operating at 30 percent capacity during the emergency. Why? It appears that gas natural gas generators were granted >some< emission control relief. What about coal plants? Why would they be kept at 30 percent? I suspect they had no exemption.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Omen55 2/24/2021 6:02:35 PM (No. 707185)
People in Texas are not fooled.
Those wind turbines are dead & other people living in winter wonder lands aren't gonna buy them either.
Cut off power to those elites & tell dem freeze or use coal,gas etc.. & you know what all of dem will pick.
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