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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The wind turbines froze, but so did everything else. Thermal plants actually, at least as of yesterday morning, accounted for more of the missing demand than wind. It's not a renewable issue but an overall infrastructure issue.[/quote]

This is misleading. Many of the green energy folks in Texas are making this argument. First, as a percentage of available capacity, more renewable energy is offline than thermal. Second, investment in thermal infrastructure has basically dried up in the past 5-6 years as wind and now solar have commanded dollars.    Thermal has its real problems, but renewable advocates need to be honest about what is happening here. Intermittent actually means intermittent. [/quote]

Let's be honest then.  The VAST majority of down power plants are fossil fuel ones.  Wind isn't a substantial part of winter energy production in Texas.  Wind turbines are used in freaking Antartica.  The wind turbines in Texas were not weatherized.  Texas doesnt keep backup power plants running which means they can't handle demand surges.  Had Texas been connected to the national grid then they could have handled the demand surge.

The elecrical grid does need a variety of sources.  Redundancies are important.  Green power cannot be one hundred percent until battery storage technology is improved.  That's all true but has absolutely nothing to do with this manmade catastrophe.[/quote]

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