Now that's next level. Here I thought replacing my hockey stick shaped antennae with poutine was good enough, but I didn't think about snowballs! What the puck was I thinking?!?!?
The problem with generators is when you run out of gasoline and try to get some more and the power is out and you can't fill your car much less your generator.
Now I hear propane generators are a thing. Someone who knows can 'splain it to me.
Propane gens have been a thing for a really long time, the farm I used to pick tobacco at had one(that's going back to the 80s). We used to at least in this area of (Southwestern)Ontario get the occasional summer or winter storm that would knock out power for a week.
Having a backup for your well, sump, boiler/air forced furnace, and/or anything important like storage tanks or expensive animals was a must. It's not quite so common now with large areas finally getting access to NG, but you can still drive down country roads here and see farms with 3 or 4 500gal tanks, two for propane, two for NG.
Listening to ignorant Democrats has consequences . Texas has so much natural gas this is absolutely ridiculous ! I have driven by those windmills in West Texas and they are an EYESORE .
A true "backup home generator" solution is going to run about 10k between the genset, the transfer switch, and labor to install and certify it all. That is not an option for most folks.
Very true. But my distrust in public utilities makes it pretty much a necessity for being a home owner, when buying a house may as well budget in a generator. Mine still runs on a direct gas line from the utility, but natural gas delivery seems to be one the more reliable side. Would like a tank on my property but it’s not really appropriate where I live if regulations even allowed it lol
It's become a fact of life here in California to own a generator. I wonder how many Californians left theirs behind when moving to Texas this year? (Note: I'm a professional real estate photographer and most of the homes I shoot have generators and most of the homes that sell in my area were because owners were moving to Texas)
Depends on what you need to keep going. All I'm worried about is all the Angus strip steak, rib roasts, pork chops, hamburger, and bacon in the freezer. A little Honda Eu2000I cost me $1,000 6 years or so back. The little thing just sips gas and running it periodically keeps everything frozen. I'm not so much worried about heating the house because we almost never get THAT cold here. My next house will have a wood stove for emergencies though.
Very true. OP had made it sound like he was talking about whole house generators, which definitely are pricey. I think for most people, a small inverter generator is perfectly fine, so long as they maintain it and know what it will and will not do when needed.
The temperature was right around 28-36 degrees for two days. Fine for refrigerator items, but freezers are usually around zero. As much as my wife makes fun of me, I'm not completely stupid.
Still a bit of an issue,the water inlets for cooling are freezing and the gas wells are freezing up. Coal has the same water intake issue. Nukes would have the same issue. Need a minor engineering update to be able to route some of the hot water coming out of the system to keep the inlets open.
In some places we have no need. This is only the 6th time I've ever seen snow in my life. Also the natural gas is still going so stoves and some heaters still run fine.
I mean it is only like 28F if I was freezing I could run my truck and get warm or make a alcohol toilet paper in can heater for literally one day and be cutting grass again the next. Speaking of as soon as the ice thaws I need to mow the lawn, which is still green.
Yeah, I mean here in Colorado it gets this cold all the damn time and most people have Xcel, which is like 19% wind power. Don't see us getting rolling blackouts.
I think the main difference is most of us in cold climates use natural gas or propane for heat, not electric heat. When it gets really cold in a place that doesn't equip their homes for the cold, the grid isn't going to be able to handle everyone using their heat at full blast. Especially if people have to use auxiliary resistance heating, that's basically just a giant toaster.
I'm pretty sure Joe does, but he'd never allow for even a smidgeon of corruption in his family or administration. He's taking a page right out of obamas playbook: no scandals ever!
Inb4 Biden proposes a new natural gas pipeline from Mexico, that oddly goes directly through cartel land. (Look at the maps of gas/oil reserves and then cartel controlled areas). Maybe Hunter can get on those boards too since.. you know.. experience this time.
The left seeks Control. It's always about Control.
They want to control what you see, say, hear, read, think, where you travel, how you get there, if you are allowed to be happy and if or when you can protect yourself/family/property.
Rationing is simply a means to an end for them. Reduce the amount of anything and it becomes a scarce resource that can be dolled out to those who are deemed 'worthy'.
If there is an abundance of something, it is much more difficult to control who has access to it or what the cost is.
This is exactly why Joepedo banned fracking and oil leases. The plan is to make oil expensive again so that renewables can pretend to compete with fossils and the chinese companies that have been fleecing us for decades can start doing so again with their puppet in place.
I think it's kinda important that coal is needed to make steel, and oil is needed to make plastic. If anyone is against coal and oil, please give up anything you own that's made of steel or plastic, before you start your hypocritical ranting.
What I find so frustrating is that no one is stopping liberals from using or not using whatever they want. Want to reduce your use of coal and oil? Try homesteading or living off the grid. Want to use an electric car? Go ahead. They could even promote certain lifestyles or brands and create a movement to accomplish some of their goals. They could boycott companies that they disagree with. They'd probably get a good deal of traction and be better received by conservatives if they weren't such authoritarians about everything.
Canadian homes are the best, because we get the -35C to +35C swing between winter and summer. Our houses are built to keep the heat in during the winter and keep the cool in during the summer.
Even if I moved to Texas, I'd build a basement and install a furnace. It would run on oil and I would fill it up once a decade as needed.
If i remember correctly, the raycis math for converting Communist to Freedom is (9/5)C+32=F so, for a real quick approximation just knock the Communist down to the nearest 10, double it, and add 30. -35°C would be, roughly, -30°F and 35°C would be, roughly 90°F.
Well, of course, silly! Since he stopped many of the super-duper important environmental regulations over the last four years, now we're reaping what was sowed.
So while the Brilliant Americans are wasting money to build stuff that doesn't work half the time, so people freeze in Texas, They are warm and toasty in Siberia.
It would be interesting to take a poll in Texas right now, asking if people think it's a good thing that Texas is now many years ahead of its official goals for the percentage of energy coming from "renewable" sources. Naturally the question needs to include a reminder that the purpose of this planned transition to "renewables" is to fight global warming.
Technically true, there are no massive battery storage facilities in the continental US yet. Anywhere that uses renewables has to rely on peaker plants to run during peak use times.
If you read up into how oil is produced. Some oil is actually made by chemical processes directly in the earth and is not derived from biomass. Scientists use these same processes to make synthetic oil. Google fisher tropsch process. Kind of interesting.
Green energy is a total scam. That's why Trump fought so hard to make USA energy independent. People are so gullible to believe we can actually sustain our energy needs off of wind and solar. Climate change is just fake propaganda and Trump knows it too.
Huge scam. I think China is effing with the weather. Straight up check out the Beijing Weather Modification Office. They are at least 10-15 years ahead of what they publicize with this technology in my opinion. Trudeau in Canada trying to train CCP in winter warfare, biggest climate dipstick of all time. Now snow hits Texas, right now? This moment? When Sinister Gates comes on tv to talk climate nonsense? Please call me insane so I'll level out, but something doesn't feel right about the timing. We're getting close to tower of Babel, our empires are gonna get scattered. I'm probably nuts for thinking it, but we can already manipulate streams and waterflow, wind energy, etc. Doesn't seem out of reach anymore to suggest that the weather is being messed with. The snow in Canada a few weeks ago had a viscosity to it, never felt that before like it was slick snow particles. Looked and felt different, first thing I thought was "CCP" but I dunno I'm probably crazy at this point gang, don't listen to me. All opinion.
Its too bad there isn't a way to split the grid and let people who want renewable to pay for the extra it costs to get going and keep going. Then let them lose power first when their renewables aren't producing power.
Texas here. We have a target on our back, in the line of sight for Dems, the CCP, globalists, etc., all of whom want to break Texas in order to have the other states crumple. And if you think for one minute that you should rule out the possibility that the entire state isn't being punished by the powers which be (there has never been a time in recorded history that the ENTIRE state---EVERY single county-- has been hit with this kind of temperature blow), then you have never researched weather weapons technology. And, yeah, it IS a thing; the UN even has a treaty banning the use of weather weapons, and you don't need treaties for things which can not be done or which do not exist! The Xiden administration isn't merely shooting holes in the floor of our ship of state, it is blasting cannons through the hulls to sink us quickly...stay safe, Pedes.
Get gasoline powered generators. Get solar powered flash lights for emergencies, just so you can ease the burden off of your flashlight's batteries. Get some candles. Get a stock of charcoal or oil to light fires with. And always make sure to have some food and water to last you several days. Do this and you'll be able to sit through chaos like this.
How about term limits on lobbyists? Just because they get replaced, doesn't mean their ideas get replaced. Could be replacing someone by design just to get the same shit through the door.
Man, the right is a bunch of conspiracy theorists..... Now allow me to screw on my cowfart filters on top of my faceshield while I slip into this homemade hazmat suit made out of plastic straws so I don't catch the fIu.
Funny how they say we won't see any economic recovery until at least 2025 and yet we will see a total shift away from the very thing our economy is run on. That should work lol.
Never believe that the politicians havent always known that manmade ("green") energy as it exists cant meet our needs. They always have all the numbers provided by all sides before voting, but they dont base decisions on the public good. Hold them accountable!
Obviously I don't want our environment to be hurting, but we need to use the energy that is available to us and which works. Oil and coal to a lesser extent are valuable sources of energy and get the job done. If these environmentalist blow hards actually believed in saving the environment they'd invest in nuclear power, but that's the elephant in the room they never address.
Texas here, I have maybe 30 minutes of power, then it's off again for several hours, then maybe 30 minutes, then off for several hours.
DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU!!! Fight them,
Canada here. I can get more power when I go inna woods camping . Never a better time to consider a gasoline powered generator.
Our internet still sux, though. I can't watch my shows like "goose plays hockey on a zamboni eh" without it stuttering.....
Just throw snowballs at the antennae next time your out havin a dart. Or pay a Newfie to do it.
Now that's next level. Here I thought replacing my hockey stick shaped antennae with poutine was good enough, but I didn't think about snowballs! What the puck was I thinking?!?!?
Well shit eh. Are you sure your using the right cheese curds in that poutine. You shouldn't have to throw snowballs at it.
The curds!!!!!
Saudi Arabia: (Rubs hands together menacingly,) "Good.... good..."
The problem with generators is when you run out of gasoline and try to get some more and the power is out and you can't fill your car much less your generator.
Now I hear propane generators are a thing. Someone who knows can 'splain it to me.
Propane gens have been a thing for a really long time, the farm I used to pick tobacco at had one(that's going back to the 80s). We used to at least in this area of (Southwestern)Ontario get the occasional summer or winter storm that would knock out power for a week.
Having a backup for your well, sump, boiler/air forced furnace, and/or anything important like storage tanks or expensive animals was a must. It's not quite so common now with large areas finally getting access to NG, but you can still drive down country roads here and see farms with 3 or 4 500gal tanks, two for propane, two for NG.
Thank you so much for your explanation!
Hank Hill would be proud.
Good luck to you my friend. Please inform people as much as possible about why this is happening.
Listening to ignorant Democrats has consequences . Texas has so much natural gas this is absolutely ridiculous ! I have driven by those windmills in West Texas and they are an EYESORE .
Hi Texas power came back on. I expect 30 minutes before goes back off. Fuck Abbott and Rinos for these windfarms.
It was fucking Rick Perry but fuck Abbot too.
Agreed!!! Fuck all Rinos
George W Bush presided over the dismantling of Texas Utilities
Not a Texan, but are backup home generators really that uncommon in Texas?
A true "backup home generator" solution is going to run about 10k between the genset, the transfer switch, and labor to install and certify it all. That is not an option for most folks.
Very true. But my distrust in public utilities makes it pretty much a necessity for being a home owner, when buying a house may as well budget in a generator. Mine still runs on a direct gas line from the utility, but natural gas delivery seems to be one the more reliable side. Would like a tank on my property but it’s not really appropriate where I live if regulations even allowed it lol
It's become a fact of life here in California to own a generator. I wonder how many Californians left theirs behind when moving to Texas this year? (Note: I'm a professional real estate photographer and most of the homes I shoot have generators and most of the homes that sell in my area were because owners were moving to Texas)
Depends on what you need to keep going. All I'm worried about is all the Angus strip steak, rib roasts, pork chops, hamburger, and bacon in the freezer. A little Honda Eu2000I cost me $1,000 6 years or so back. The little thing just sips gas and running it periodically keeps everything frozen. I'm not so much worried about heating the house because we almost never get THAT cold here. My next house will have a wood stove for emergencies though.
Very true. OP had made it sound like he was talking about whole house generators, which definitely are pricey. I think for most people, a small inverter generator is perfectly fine, so long as they maintain it and know what it will and will not do when needed.
Put your stuff in a plastic tote.
Put the tote outside.
You're welcome.
The temperature was right around 28-36 degrees for two days. Fine for refrigerator items, but freezers are usually around zero. As much as my wife makes fun of me, I'm not completely stupid.
Bummer I thought it was cold.
Why not natural gas fired ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANTS instead of these taxpayer subsidized wind mills ? Who would have thought ?
We can go full CCP Chynah! Have the natural gas plants turn the wind turbines!
Gas wind?
Still a bit of an issue,the water inlets for cooling are freezing and the gas wells are freezing up. Coal has the same water intake issue. Nukes would have the same issue. Need a minor engineering update to be able to route some of the hot water coming out of the system to keep the inlets open.
In some places we have no need. This is only the 6th time I've ever seen snow in my life. Also the natural gas is still going so stoves and some heaters still run fine.
I mean it is only like 28F if I was freezing I could run my truck and get warm or make a alcohol toilet paper in can heater for literally one day and be cutting grass again the next. Speaking of as soon as the ice thaws I need to mow the lawn, which is still green.
Yeah, I have natural gas space heat and gas stove, so heating and cooking is no problem, just no juice. We're on a record run of like 30+ minutes now.
I feel for the folks with all electric homes.
Never felt the need for one, power occasionally goes out for a few hours after a T-storm. I'm sure as hell getting one now though.
Let's not protend like the kill coal and kill fracking agenda didn't benefit the board members of foreign energy companies such as Barisma and CEFC.
I wonder if there could be any conflicts of interest there?
Anyone know of any family members of politicians that are on boards of these companies?
Those who think this is about green energy vs non-green energy might be more ignorant about what's going on than those whining about climate change.
Yeah, I mean here in Colorado it gets this cold all the damn time and most people have Xcel, which is like 19% wind power. Don't see us getting rolling blackouts.
I think the main difference is most of us in cold climates use natural gas or propane for heat, not electric heat. When it gets really cold in a place that doesn't equip their homes for the cold, the grid isn't going to be able to handle everyone using their heat at full blast. Especially if people have to use auxiliary resistance heating, that's basically just a giant toaster.
I think Biden has a son or something on one, but there's nothing to see there.
I'm pretty sure Joe does, but he'd never allow for even a smidgeon of corruption in his family or administration. He's taking a page right out of obamas playbook: no scandals ever!
No scandals, on TV!
Yeah, Pedo Joe and Barry O'Bummer are above such scandalous things.
Inb4 Biden proposes a new natural gas pipeline from Mexico, that oddly goes directly through cartel land. (Look at the maps of gas/oil reserves and then cartel controlled areas). Maybe Hunter can get on those boards too since.. you know.. experience this time.
Are you referring to Hunter's experience with oil companies or with Cartel's crack?
When Middle America NEEDS energy, it's rationed. Leftism in a nutshell
Rationing anything is what the left strives for. They want to ration freedom, speech, travel, happiness, you name it...
The left seeks Control. It's always about Control.
They want to control what you see, say, hear, read, think, where you travel, how you get there, if you are allowed to be happy and if or when you can protect yourself/family/property.
Rationing is simply a means to an end for them. Reduce the amount of anything and it becomes a scarce resource that can be dolled out to those who are deemed 'worthy'.
If there is an abundance of something, it is much more difficult to control who has access to it or what the cost is.
Yep. Let us fight over the scraps while they get most of the pie.
That can easily be achieved. It will look like this>
https://www.history.com/.image/t_share/MTcxNTk5NDYwOTIzNjE0ODQ3/abandoned-cities-and-ghost-towns-gettyimages-1148488843.jpg
As we all know, communists are the greatest champions of the environment. Just look at China!
I honestly think liberals don't know we share the same atmosphere as China.
This is exactly why Joepedo banned fracking and oil leases. The plan is to make oil expensive again so that renewables can pretend to compete with fossils and the chinese companies that have been fleecing us for decades can start doing so again with their puppet in place.
I think it's kinda important that coal is needed to make steel, and oil is needed to make plastic. If anyone is against coal and oil, please give up anything you own that's made of steel or plastic, before you start your hypocritical ranting.
I would add that they should give up anything that is transported using Oil.
Amen and Awomen.
What I find so frustrating is that no one is stopping liberals from using or not using whatever they want. Want to reduce your use of coal and oil? Try homesteading or living off the grid. Want to use an electric car? Go ahead. They could even promote certain lifestyles or brands and create a movement to accomplish some of their goals. They could boycott companies that they disagree with. They'd probably get a good deal of traction and be better received by conservatives if they weren't such authoritarians about everything.
and fertilizers, and synthetic clothing materials, and chemical compounds for medication production.
and this can be created in relatively cheaply in quantities that keep prices for many product low.
Yep, Green movement in Canada gets real quiet every October and suddenly reappears in May.
Canadians use on average 15k KWH each a year.
And as Texas now sees, if we don't get 15k KWH, we freeze to death. Humans are mostly water after all.
Canadian homes are the best, because we get the -35C to +35C swing between winter and summer. Our houses are built to keep the heat in during the winter and keep the cool in during the summer.
Even if I moved to Texas, I'd build a basement and install a furnace. It would run on oil and I would fill it up once a decade as needed.
Damn it man whats with these C units, now I have to use math. Where are the damn freedom units.
If i remember correctly, the raycis math for converting Communist to Freedom is (9/5)C+32=F so, for a real quick approximation just knock the Communist down to the nearest 10, double it, and add 30. -35°C would be, roughly, -30°F and 35°C would be, roughly 90°F.
I think -40C is -40F, but +35C is closer to 105F
I bet they'll just blame Trump for the weather and power outages.
They are. Plus capitalism be bad. No one has ever froze in socialist countries don't cha know.
Well, of course, silly! Since he stopped many of the super-duper important environmental regulations over the last four years, now we're reaping what was sowed.
Reality seldom lives up to lofty ideals
Russia adding Copper Salt to coal to make it burn cleaner.
Adding copper salts to coal may increase combustion efficiency – study
https://www.mining.com/adding-copper-salts-to-coal-may-increase-combustion-efficiency-study/
So while the Brilliant Americans are wasting money to build stuff that doesn't work half the time, so people freeze in Texas, They are warm and toasty in Siberia.
100% renewable but only 10% availability. 100%, 10% of the time.
What, are you one of those greedy people that like to have power ALL the time?
Under communism, you get power 10% of the time, and you like it, or else...
BUT WIND POWER IS THE CHEAPEST PER KWH!!!!!!!!! /s
It would be interesting to take a poll in Texas right now, asking if people think it's a good thing that Texas is now many years ahead of its official goals for the percentage of energy coming from "renewable" sources. Naturally the question needs to include a reminder that the purpose of this planned transition to "renewables" is to fight global warming.
But.. but... Real green energy hasn't been tried!
Exactly. I blame capitalism.
Technically true, there are no massive battery storage facilities in the continental US yet. Anywhere that uses renewables has to rely on peaker plants to run during peak use times.
The greentard agenda is like spitting on the sun thinking it will change the climate.
Oil, coal, and trees are renewable energy sources.
Oil and coal are finely aged biomass
If you read up into how oil is produced. Some oil is actually made by chemical processes directly in the earth and is not derived from biomass. Scientists use these same processes to make synthetic oil. Google fisher tropsch process. Kind of interesting.
Green energy is a total scam. That's why Trump fought so hard to make USA energy independent. People are so gullible to believe we can actually sustain our energy needs off of wind and solar. Climate change is just fake propaganda and Trump knows it too.
It's a scam to enrich the elites off our hard earned money.
And Texas (and 14 other states with them) are learning the hard way the true costs of that scam.
Huge scam. I think China is effing with the weather. Straight up check out the Beijing Weather Modification Office. They are at least 10-15 years ahead of what they publicize with this technology in my opinion. Trudeau in Canada trying to train CCP in winter warfare, biggest climate dipstick of all time. Now snow hits Texas, right now? This moment? When Sinister Gates comes on tv to talk climate nonsense? Please call me insane so I'll level out, but something doesn't feel right about the timing. We're getting close to tower of Babel, our empires are gonna get scattered. I'm probably nuts for thinking it, but we can already manipulate streams and waterflow, wind energy, etc. Doesn't seem out of reach anymore to suggest that the weather is being messed with. The snow in Canada a few weeks ago had a viscosity to it, never felt that before like it was slick snow particles. Looked and felt different, first thing I thought was "CCP" but I dunno I'm probably crazy at this point gang, don't listen to me. All opinion.
Snow during black history month declared an act of white supremacy
Social justice cause organizations officially cancel winter
Leftists call for immediate action through acceleration of global warming
Its too bad there isn't a way to split the grid and let people who want renewable to pay for the extra it costs to get going and keep going. Then let them lose power first when their renewables aren't producing power.
We already have a stable carbon-free source of energy with Nuclear power. The problem could be easily solved if they wanted it to be solved.
Of course we know this has more to do with seizing control of the economy than it has to do with the environment.
Worst part is even fossil fuels were almost as susceptible.
80% of what we lost in Texas was fossil fuel
The more important part is winterization
Texas here. We have a target on our back, in the line of sight for Dems, the CCP, globalists, etc., all of whom want to break Texas in order to have the other states crumple. And if you think for one minute that you should rule out the possibility that the entire state isn't being punished by the powers which be (there has never been a time in recorded history that the ENTIRE state---EVERY single county-- has been hit with this kind of temperature blow), then you have never researched weather weapons technology. And, yeah, it IS a thing; the UN even has a treaty banning the use of weather weapons, and you don't need treaties for things which can not be done or which do not exist! The Xiden administration isn't merely shooting holes in the floor of our ship of state, it is blasting cannons through the hulls to sink us quickly...stay safe, Pedes.
Boy am I glad I moved to Arizona years ago. :-) 80* today.
I should have said womanbearpig
Get gasoline powered generators. Get solar powered flash lights for emergencies, just so you can ease the burden off of your flashlight's batteries. Get some candles. Get a stock of charcoal or oil to light fires with. And always make sure to have some food and water to last you several days. Do this and you'll be able to sit through chaos like this.
How about term limits on lobbyists? Just because they get replaced, doesn't mean their ideas get replaced. Could be replacing someone by design just to get the same shit through the door.
At least paper straws are taken care of, though. Take that, cowfart deniers!
So glad we banned plastic straws. Really dodged that strawpocalypse!
Man, the right is a bunch of conspiracy theorists..... Now allow me to screw on my cowfart filters on top of my faceshield while I slip into this homemade hazmat suit made out of plastic straws so I don't catch the fIu.
Er... so much for the move to Texas plan
I've got nes for you if you think this is actually going to stop them.
The rich liberals will find something else to blame and they won't give a shit because their neighborhoods won't ever be subject to the blackouts.
And idiots will believe and follow them.
Funny how they say we won't see any economic recovery until at least 2025 and yet we will see a total shift away from the very thing our economy is run on. That should work lol.
Its comin' right for us!!
65% nuclear by 2025 let's do it
Turns out America suffers from low-T in every state.
Never believe that the politicians havent always known that manmade ("green") energy as it exists cant meet our needs. They always have all the numbers provided by all sides before voting, but they dont base decisions on the public good. Hold them accountable!
**KILL COAL TO SAVE EARTH FROM GLOBAL "WARMING"
Obviously I don't want our environment to be hurting, but we need to use the energy that is available to us and which works. Oil and coal to a lesser extent are valuable sources of energy and get the job done. If these environmentalist blow hards actually believed in saving the environment they'd invest in nuclear power, but that's the elephant in the room they never address.
I saw that as "green tranny" at first which probably isn't inaccurate at this point.
That would be a coal plant that identifies as a windmill
Life comes at you fast.
I read that as "Green tranny", but which is pretty much the same thing anyway.
Green TRANNY TYRANNY?
Thats the kicker isnt it? That even with 100% renewables, this will still happen.
Isn't there a reactor type that the fuel can be recycled into nuclear weapons? Sounds like renewable to me.
"I blame capitalism!" - leftist shill that doesn't understand keeping snow plows in Texas for a once in a 30 year storm makes zero fiscal sense.
The green tyranny still mostly lives in Cali, and they're unlikely to change their minds until the state starts regularly freezing over.
Green energy has lots of potential when used wisely. Then again, how many times does it snow in Texas? Exactly
Kill coal...use natural gas.
Why was coal abandoned/illegalized?
It occurs naturally in certain places that are coincidentally poor, like Appalachia and the large western Indian reservations.
Poor= politically unimportant.
My power company's grid is still mostly coal.
Sadly true.
In relation to your username, there is a church in Jerusalem that's Latin name means "the Lord Wept". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominus_Flevit_Church
Just build nuclear power plants. Nuclear power is green, produces no emissions and is very reliable.