Apparently this has only happened like four times in the past 150 years. Maybe never for Galveston, I don’t know.
Where I live, we’re in that weird slice of the state that’s on Louisiana’s grid. Apparently one of their main natural gas plants went down, which is why we have outages right now in our area.
I mean, energy is generated by steam turbines. Which means there’s a ton of water in the system that can freeze and burst piping. Preventing problems like that is expensive. Now Oklahoma is getting slammed too, but I’d bet their infrastructure is modified to deal with this. If you look at the power outage maps, the entire gulf coast is being impacted.
I do think this is an excellent warning for why fully transitioning to “green” leaves us more at the mercy of weather events. HOWEVER, the primary cause of this here in Texas is not wind power. What the Democrats in our state are currently claiming is that deregulation caused this. So they’re going to use this to fuck us all over while y’all are wanking about windmills.
100% can confirm, dems are pushing the regulation approach but I'm hoping most of the normies wake up to the fact that 100% renewable grid is a pipe dream that will never happen. You can have some renewable but always make sure the fossil fuel grid can power everything 100% but yeah, these power plants should have been weatherized better. We currently have a glut of natural gas on the market, in storage, and events like this would allow that excess gas to be burned off.
Apparently this has only happened like four times in the past 150 years. Maybe never for Galveston, I don’t know.
Where I live, we’re in that weird slice of the state that’s on Louisiana’s grid. Apparently one of their main natural gas plants went down, which is why we have outages right now in our area.
I mean, energy is generated by steam turbines. Which means there’s a ton of water in the system that can freeze and burst piping. Preventing problems like that is expensive. Now Oklahoma is getting slammed too, but I’d bet their infrastructure is modified to deal with this. If you look at the power outage maps, the entire gulf coast is being impacted.
I do think this is an excellent warning for why fully transitioning to “green” leaves us more at the mercy of weather events. HOWEVER, the primary cause of this here in Texas is not wind power. What the Democrats in our state are currently claiming is that deregulation caused this. So they’re going to use this to fuck us all over while y’all are wanking about windmills.
100% can confirm, dems are pushing the regulation approach but I'm hoping most of the normies wake up to the fact that 100% renewable grid is a pipe dream that will never happen. You can have some renewable but always make sure the fossil fuel grid can power everything 100% but yeah, these power plants should have been weatherized better. We currently have a glut of natural gas on the market, in storage, and events like this would allow that excess gas to be burned off.