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Embarrassing article.
• 2X thermal (gas, coal, nuclear) as wind power went offline
• years since climate shifted from simply “warming” to “warming and more extreme weather”
• Canada and USA operate vast gas and wind power without freezing
#cdnpoli https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-as-texas-winter-storm-shows-hurling-public-money-at-renewable-energy-is-pure-folly
• 2X thermal (gas, coal, nuclear) as wind power went offline
• years since climate shifted from simply “warming” to “warming and more extreme weather”
• Canada and USA operate vast gas and wind power without freezing
#cdnpoli https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-as-texas-winter-storm-shows-hurling-public-money-at-renewable-energy-is-pure-folly
“...nothing to do with Green New Deal. Wind a tiny fraction of Texas energy grid this time of year. The vast majority of power sources knocked off line were natural gas and coal, largely because those facilities weren’t properly weatherized.”
#cdnpoli https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Editorial-Governor-Abbott-s-wind-turbine-15958637.php
#cdnpoli https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Editorial-Governor-Abbott-s-wind-turbine-15958637.php
“16 GW of renewable energy, mostly wind, were offline. Nearly double that, 30 GW, had been lost from thermal sources, incl gas, coal and nuclear energy. By Wed, 45 GW were offline, with 28 GW from thermal sources and 18 GW from renewable sources”
#cdnpoli https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-frozen/
#cdnpoli https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-frozen/
Gas, then wind, the most volatile Texas power supply.
Nuclear and coal the most stable.
#cdnpoli https://twitter.com/eiagov/status/1362411662112882700
Nuclear and coal the most stable.
#cdnpoli https://twitter.com/eiagov/status/1362411662112882700
Lesson in Texas, as in 1998 Québec and Ontario, is about resilience to occasional extreme weather conditions. A few inches of icy rain can wreak havoc if your power supply or grid are not designed to handle it...regardless of the type of power.
#cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ice-storm-1998-1.4469977
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ice-storm-1998-1.4469977
