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Some blame a quasi-free-market in electricity for the collapse of the electrical grid in Texas, during the recent winter snow storm.
Opposing opinion has it that an excessive reliance on renewable energy sources, like wind turbines, was the culprit in a grid collapse that saw 40 percent of the power supply fail within hours of the storm.
All agree that the oil-and-gas state enjoys both cheap natural gas and that its natural resources could have stood Texas in good stead. https://www.unz.com/imercer/systemic-institutional-rot-from-big-freeze-in-texas-to-fires-in-cali/
Some blame a quasi-free-market in electricity for the collapse of the electrical grid in Texas, during a winter snow storm, mid-February, in which temperatures hovered at 0°F (or -18°C). The same people…
www.unz.com@Quatermain Wind and solar are horrible sources of power and were pushed as alternatives for decades because they suck. They don't want people using the good sources- geothermal, tidal and the best and future- magnetic.