[Nextrush]

The wind turbines were polluting the land around Amarillo in 2016 long before Biden came into power. It was a decision made in Texas years ago and politicians there were in majority Republican.

They took $$$$ from someone IMHO maybe they need impeachment instead of Mr. Paxton?

[Deaf Smith]

Always wondered if my wind turbine feasibility study paper at Texas Tech U in 1981 played a part in this current mess.

I covered the areas of the Texas High Plains and the Rolling Plains.

Conclusion; was only feasible with the subsidies then in place under Carter.

[curious7]

I heard a lot of democrats back in the 90s in Texas switched to calling themselves republicans when it became apparent democrats weren’t going to get elected. That true?

[Al B.]

The wind turbines were polluting the land around Amarillo in 2016 long before Biden came into power. It was a decision made in Texas years ago and politicians there were in majority Republican.

According to an Aug. 2022 Texas Tribune article, there are 11,000 wind turbines in the Texas Panhandle that are basically unavailable to the Texas grid due to lack of transmission capability.

Why the Texas grid causes the High Plains to turn off its wind turbines

Brilliant minds at work in the "Green Energy Dept." down here.

[Rusty0604]

The One and Only Texas Wind Boom (2016)

Wind power has transformed the heart of fossil-fuel country. Can the rest of the United States follow suit?

Rolan Petty stabbed at the dirt with a boot toe and looked up at the broiling west Texas sun. “I call it farming on faith,” he said of his unirrigated cotton farm. “You just have faith that the rain is gonna come.”

If it doesn’t come, Petty has a backup income stream: leasing fees. All around us, towering 150 feet over Petty’s combine and the scrubby-looking cotton plants in neat rows, stood a forest of wind turbines that stretched to the horizon. Petty’s land on the arid plain of west Texas lies on the edge of the vast Horse Hollow wind farm, with 430 turbines spread over 73 square miles. It was the largest wind farm in the world when it was completed, in 2006. Petty’s family leases land to Horse Hollow and another wind farm in the area, making about $7,500 a year on each of the several dozen turbines on their property. Wind power has become a big windfall for the Pettys, as it has for many landowners in Texas—allowing Rolan and his parents and three brothers to make hundreds of thousands of dollars every year whether the rains come or not. And the Petty farm is just a small player in the largest renewable-energy boom the United States has ever seen.

Wind power has brought prosperity to towns that were literally drying up less than a generation ago. “In the 2011 drought a lot of people around here would have filed for bankruptcy if not for the turbines,” said Russ Petty, one of Rolan’s brothers, who was giving me a driving tour of the property. “What it’s done is helped keep this land in the family.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/10/03/157226/the-one-and-only-texas-wind-boom/

[deport]

Keep in mind Texas was an independent nation before they joined the USA. They had their on electric grid and wasn't a part of any national grid. They had the resources to use such as Nat. gas, oil, wind, and wasn't dependent upon any other provider. They had emergency ties that went both ways. ..

Texas is the number one wind power producer in the USA. The Lone Star State has over 33,100 MW of wind
turbines installed. These turbines produce enough energy to power over 3.5 million Texas households and
provide over 25,000 jobs.