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fugly, but effective. not a long term solution. keep an extinguisher handy!

Rev 7:1 ¶ After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree.

Here's one to consider. A time is coming, no one knows when or for how long, when there will be no wind anywhere on earth. Hot places will keep getting hotter as there will be no wind to move the hot air away, likewise cold places will get much colder. Of course no windmills will turn. Places with air pollution will get a lot worse with no air circulation. Air stagnation will be the rule. Earth's entire weather pattern will radically change as mixing of temps and moisture will stop. Plant growth is very dependent on wind to move pollen from plant to plant. The bees don't do it all, for sure. Many of our crops won't get pollinated and won't grow. Without seeds or plant growth, many animals will face starvation.

Yep, petroleum products being sprayed to get them running again.

But it's an electric helicopter, right?

I have. Only a literal handful of people decide what the "news" is going to be for the day, for every "news" outlet out there.

Nothing inherently wrong with wind generation.

I dont understand why natural gas has been so cheap for so long though.

Unnaturally cheap.

I think it's funny that people will piss and moan about how dirty the oil sands are....but want coal power and nothing else.

Oh, FFS, there’s wind turbines all over the bleeping foothills around here, none of them ever “freeze” and we get a good bit colder than just 0.

The problem is Texans operating wind turbines, not wind turbines.

A "there I feel better about myself" response from someone who doesn't truly know jack about what he's being an expert on...........

You foreigners go back where you came from. We made it just fine before y’all showed up. A country boy will survive. GFY
God Bless Texas

OK wise guy how often do you get freezing rain? Snow is not the problem in Texas it is the "wintery mix". By the way I was born in Idaho and between the Mormons and liberals crapping up Idaho I think Texas is a better place presently.

Coal is reliable and Wind is not, it is as simple as that.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Wind+generation+controversy%3F&t=newext&atb=v250-1&ia=web

Wind. Don't you see the propeller? 😁

What makes you think that a time is coming when there will be no wind, anywhere?

Yeah, I’ve spent time in Texas, you can have it.

There’s lots of turbines in a heck of a lot more severe environments than West Texas. The ones on the Columbia river gorge are still spinning, and Portland got about an inch of freezing rain in the last few days. The ones in Denmark are still going, in salt water, gale winds and last week’s record cold snap.

It ain’t the turbines, it’s the Texans.

That's some insight coming from a Rock Chuck.
Even Mr. Owl could learn something from that.

The rest of what John was told is correct.
Why not these end times prophecies?

Is Texas hooked to the national grid??


Southern Co. could be sending power that way to help boost their grid if it was.

Mike

Most of the power generated from the place in Mcadoo TX goes to Louisiana or so i have been told.

The same can be said for most all of the large projects,solar as well.

It don't stay in Texas.

"It isn't the turbines," is correct. Our wind turbines here in the north are equipped and outfitted for cold weather operation. Electric heat in the nacelle and to the blades to get the ice to drop off, etc. I haven't heard of a wind farm outage in this region, but its possible. Whether it makes sense to outfit southern wind farms with cold weather packages on their turbines is something for people in those locations to decide.

I think one issue is that the extreme cold caused by high pressure domes is usually accompanied by still air. Wind was nonexistent; still here all weekend long but started to blow from the SE yesterday. Most people don't know that the prevailing wind is actually SE rather than NW.

There are three grids in the USA. East, West and Texas. They are connected ,but not in sync with each other. Power is transferred between the three with large Converter/Inverter units to sync them to 0 degree for transfer. This limits the amount of wattage to be transferred between grids. This is left over from the Cold War era when the EMP from an atomic bomb wasn't large enough or the missiles having enough range to disable the entire 48 states. That way one grid could have been used to jump start the effected grids.