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In Reply to: Wind power is great until... posted by E-Stat on February 16, 2021 at 07:17:35:
Wind has been producing ~1.5 GW less than ERCOT expected for a winter peak event, solar ~1 GW more than expected, & nuclear running 100%. Meanwhile, >30 GW of fossil plants, mostly natural gas, went down. So of course the narrative is -- frozen wind turbines!
First they came for the dumb-asses
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a dumb-ass
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- RE: Wind power is great until... - Ivan303 07:33:31 02/16/21 (12)
- Well said Ivan. ^ - Road Warrior 16:46:06 02/16/21 (0)
- RE: Wind power is great until... - E-Stat 07:39:13 02/16/21 (10)
- But solar is up by 1 GW and the main problem remains... - Ivan303 07:55:46 02/16/21 (9)
- and the main problem remains... - E-Stat 07:57:57 02/16/21 (8)
- In Texas, it's plain-and-simple poor planning, i.e. small - tinear 09:18:49 02/16/21 (7)
- Agree completely! - E-Stat 09:42:16 02/16/21 (6)
- Let's be clear about this, there are more gigawatts down - Road Warrior 16:53:53 02/16/21 (1)
- But not by 50% if you've read my posts -nt - E-Stat 16:54:44 02/16/21 (0)
- No "plus" at all. Poor conservative planning. Period. It's not like - tinear 15:28:03 02/16/21 (1)
- Who said anything about a "plus"? -nt - E-Stat 16:34:49 02/16/21 (0)
- Do you live in Texas? nt - Rick W 10:44:39 02/16/21 (1)
- Nope -nt - E-Stat 11:00:01 02/16/21 (0)