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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Frozen wind turbines are not even close to your biggest problem. Most of the power plants offline are gas powered, but they don’t have as to run. 
Good luck to you![/quote]

Wind Farm in Norway:

[img]https://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2016/02/Norway-Green-Wind-Energy-889x592.jpg[/img]

Wind Turbines North of the Arctic Circle.  They operate up to 58 below zero F.[/quote]

The main issue is that the Texan turbines are not weatherized to handle the extreme cold. They probably do not have heating elements to melt ice/snow on the blades. They probably don't have the de-icing infrastructure. All of this is a result of lack of planning for climate change and the willingness to pro-actively invest in infrastructure. Texas will face more polar vortices in the future with increasing regularity.

Still, the biggest losses in power generation right now are due to thermal plants being taken offline - coal, nuclear, gas - from the extreme cold weather.[/quote]

And they arent weatherized because Texas pennypinched.  It's $5000 a turbine for the heating element.  $5000 on a million plus piece of equipment.[/quote]

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