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To: MtnClimber

The Texas blackout this last February was caused in part by too much reliance on wind and solar, and not enough back up by on-demand carbon-fueled powerplants. Which also had their problems due to a lack of sufficient winterization, and lack of winterization of the natural gas wells and collection and distribution systems feeding them.

You can’t run the modern civilization we’ve come to expect on wind and solar. That large portions of the populace have been propagandized to believe you can is a real problem.


16 posted on 07/29/2021 5:26:43 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

One of the main problems evidenced in the TX blackout was the reliance on JUST IN TIME natural gas delivery to the power plants.

Unlike coal where the plant may have enough literally on the ground to run the plant for a couple weeks the natural gas plants had ZERO backup storage at their facilities.
So, when the valves froze on the pipeline, they ran out of gas.


30 posted on 07/29/2021 6:48:32 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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