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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not sure what to think. My husband works 25 miles away so he packed up a weeks worth of food and clothes. Please do not make a joke of this. The GOP idiots have not kept up our infrastructure. We can handle 100 degrees but not zero. This is scary. I’m worried about power and I have four greyhounds here.[/quote] There are wind turbines throughout the midwest in Iowa and Indiana, Ohio.....  and those don't freeze.  Why did the ones in Texas freeze?

I am curious as to why you did not mention the coal and gas fired plants that also froze? [/quote]

I haven’t checked the data but someone I trust told me this weather system is a 3.9 sigma event for Texas. I’d be surprised is windmills in the north are resilient to an equine Lang event, but perhaps they are. [/quote]

narrator: they are

Somehow, turbines in the upper midwest and on ridges in PA and MD that routinely experience sub-zero temperatures, don't have these issues. Science and all.[/quote]

Link?

In the 2019 polar vortex windmills throughout the Midwest and the Prairie states shut down due to extreme cold and actually became a net drag on the system as turbines needed electricity for heating to avoid damage to the turbines.

I don’t have time to look at the data, but I know that even weatherized wind turbines don’t operate below -20. Please provide a link that shows turbines in the Midwest and Prairie States still operate during a 3.9 sigma weather event. [/quote]
So I live in Minnesota and was here for the “polar vortex” of 2019 (right now seems as bad, FWIW). I’m trying to nose around Xcel Energy to see if they what percentage of my energy comes from wind vs solar since the weather right now seems comparable. If there’s a wind farm in the arctic circle, you can bet they should work in the continental US.[/quote]

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