Posted on 02/17/2021 6:56:33 AM PST by Red Badger
Brian Sullivan reports a combination of factors such as a colder-than-expected storm, an industry unprepared for winter weather and a shortage of energy and wind power have created the massive power and water shortage in Texas. Texas also relies on nonprofit, Electric Reliability Council of Texas for its electric power grid, unlike other areas in the U.S., which is problematic. He joins Shep Smith to discuss.
VIDEO AT LINK.....................
Or unreliability, as the case may be.
>>He joins Shep Smith to discuss.<<
Not enough pickle sniffers involved in power generation.
never even heard of this POC group until all this! no idea where they came from... BUT GET RID OF THEM!!!
and start building more power plants TODAY!!! wind energy can kiss my behind!
Abbot better fix this by next year’s governors race.
The Dems will blame him for THEIR incompetency..................
We finally have water, but power is still up and down like a yo-yo. I’m so upset with our city council... people wouldn’t believe the S#$! Show that’s gone on for the past 24hrs. The story behind the curtain, even at local levels, has everyone pissed! Citizens are out for blood over this crap, it’s a long story, filled with deception, ill-preparedness and slaps to the face, it’s truly sickening!
Personally, I’m loving every minute of this. The stupid tree hugger / environmentalist wacko’s are getting what they deserve. I’d love to see this last for a month or more. Anyone with common sense knows that you can’t rely solely - or 92% - on wind and solar for your electrical generation..... coal is the answer but they are driving it out of existence. Natural Gas is good but there have been units shut down that are gas due to there not being enough natural gas, as households get gas before industry...… which is ironic since if you don’t have electric to run the fans on the furnace, it’s of no use...…
Excellent move by our gov. This fiasco had a leftist shenanigans odor from the second it started. I think AG ken Paxton needs to investigate Ercot immediately. This smells of a leftists manufactured crisis. People have died and property damage is going to go into the billions. This is criminal. It also has a stench of political retribution. No matter what is determined this must be the end of Ercot as well as beginning the total phase out of wind and solar power. This is unacceptable for Texas.
Governor Groundhog Abbott
Too late Abbott is hiding in the Bushes.
Too late Abbott is hiding in the Bushes.
“He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Temple Texas is a mess on the west side of 317.
Are you kidding the commiesars in Austin will double down on “renewables” because this time coal and gas failed and we lost a nuke too due to cold. They will be like see it was “thermal” power that failed we must have much.more wind. Bank on it.
I was prepared for this... food, water and power. But many weren’t and the responses from our public officials was down right idiotic... They were “recommending” plumbers to fix our water pipes after it gets above freezing?, had no fail over generators in place for water substations and didn’t have an adequate supply of diesel for existing emergency responder gen-sets! Wasn’t until the citizens racked them over the coals that they ten tried to procure generators...from Houston of all places!
The list goes on and on, they didn’t even provide any status updates until people on the “Next Door” app started to really lay into them. Even then, no apologies, nothing... they knew this wasn’t going to bode well for them. Such a boondoggle.
I’m in Corinth, just south of Denton.
Fukishima, Texas
Translation, we in government tell you what to do but screw you if you do it.
I’d start by finding out why wind turbines in Texas froze up when those in Illinois, Iowa, and elsewhere much colder do not. Poor maintenance? Design shortcuts? Or what?
Without the loss of much wind generation this crisis would not have happened.
And don’t just replay the standard FR anti-wind BS. They do not freeze up anyplace else.
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