I think our distant ancestors, huddled in their caves and huts, if shown what could be done with nuclear and coal, would think us utter fools for choosing to rely on wind and solar instead.
God gave this earth coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power and the wisdom of man to use them effectively. This should be shoved into the faces of Gates, Biden, Kerry, AOC and all the rest of the idiots who preach the “green new deal..” there is nothing green about it and certainly is no freaking deal.
Time to end this pap now...or people will die.
Sadly it was my industry that dropped the ball. Texas is over dependent on gas for power grid use because when times are good its the cheapest possible power plant to construct in capital costs. Coal and nuclear is nearly double to.triple as much. Record cold froze the well gathering lines and trucks couldn’t run to take away produced water so wells.got shut in and gas supply dropped by half or more. Gas went to over a $100 mmbtu thats insane. Its normally $3 to 5
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-storm/
While methane doesn’t freeze until minus 273 degrees the water that is produced with it at the well head does and the gathering lines are plastic on the surface which during normal Texas winter’s rarely freezes due to the high salt.content and 100_130f temps out the earth but in single.digits over days time the ground cold sinks and the lines freeze.