GLOBAL WARMING: Frigid Weather Cripples ‘Green’ Wind Farms In Texas,

[BenjaminO]

LMAO the total winter capacity.....Texas doesnt have much of winter weather.

Glad your single brain cell could come to such a complicated conclusion.
Texas was unprepared and the failure is not the responsibility of renewable energy.

[carolina73]

This is offshore but parts of it also apply to land based turbines


Dirty Secret Behind Wind Turbines, They Need Lots Of Oil
Andrew Follett Energy and Science Reporter March 03, 2017 Offshore wind turbines may generate green energy, but they use a lot more oil than proponents like to admit.

Just installing the foundation of a single offshore turbine can consume 18,857 barrels of marine fuel during construction, according to calculations published by Forbes Wednesday. Offshore wind farms often have over 100 wind turbines, meaning that building them requires almost 2 million barrels of fuel just to power the ships involved in construction.

“You can’t even construct or operate offshore wind turbines without oil,” Chris Warren, a spokesman for the free-market Institute for Energy Research, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “For decades, we have been told that wind, solar, and other so-called ‘green’ sources are the future, and yet these sources remain expensive, intermittent, and unreliable despite government mandates and subsidies. Offshore wind in particular remains one of the most expensive sources of electricity that exists.”

The Long Island-New York City Offshore Wind Collaborative will cost $1 billion dollar to build and generate roughly 200 megawatts of electricity, enough to provide power to between 40,000 and 64,000 homes — depending on how much the wind blows over the course of the year.

The wind farm’s power will cost around $25,000 for every home it powers, according to Daily Caller News Foundation calculations. The first American offshore wind farm in Block Island, Rhode Island will cost $17,600 dollars per home it powers.

The extremely high cost of offshore wind apparently doesn’t worry environmentalists and progressives because, as Salon.com says about the project, “it’s the precedent that counts.” The costs attributed to both the Block Island and the Long Island wind farms are just to build the turbines, not to operate them.

Despite the extremely high cost, federal officials want to power a whopping 23 million homes with offshore wind by the year 2050. Offshore wind is so pricey that early investors, like Germany, plan to stop building new turbines to lower the costs of electricity and prop up the existing power grid.

Offshore wind power is so expensive because installing and maintaining any kind of infrastructure on the water is extremely difficult. The salt water of the ocean is incredibly corrosive and makes operating such facilities difficult and expensive. Electricity is so comparatively cheap in most parts of the country that offshore wind isn’t generally necessary.



Andrew Follett


https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/03/d...d-lots-of-oil/

[Sybil Ludington]

BLATANT LIE: Biden Administration Says Coal, Natural Gas Caused Texas Blackouts, Not Frozen Wind Turbines

https://nationalfile.com/blatant-lie...paign=sendlane

[Sybil Ludington]

'ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE':
Texas Mayor Resigns After Telling Residents to Fend for Themselves Amid Life-Threatening Cold
https://heavy.com/news/tim-boyd-colo...ign=02/17/2021

[MMC]

Glad your single brain cell could come to such a complicated conclusion.
Texas was unprepared and the failure is not the responsibility of renewable energy.

I'm glad that your half a brain cell can't muster enough intelligence to figure $#@! out.


Biden regime Press Secretary Jen Psaki falsely claimed that coal and natural gas power plants are responsible for the current blackouts in Texas that are leaving millions without power during an arctic cold snap that is seeing temperature highs in the low single digits, with wind chills colder than Alaska’s.



This is blatantly untrue. It was widely reported by mainstream publications that Texas’s wind turbines froze solid during the worst parts of the freeze. As Texas has slowly phased out coal and natural gas to please Washington, D.C. climate alarmists, this complete shutdown of wind energy led to increased reliance on coal and natural gas. As a result, the supply of coal and natural gas power was quickly depleted.


This likely would not have happened, however, without the completely useless frozen wind turbines that now litter rural Texas.


“This is a unique winter storm that’s more widespread with lots of moisture in West Texas, where there’s a lot of times not a lot of moisture,” Senior Director of System Operations for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas Dan Woodfin noted, adding, “It’s certainly more than what we would typically assume.”


Most ‘spare’ capacity was eliminated because many wind turbines are frozen…” Texas Storm Chasers reported on Twitter.


It was reported by The Austin American-Statesman that nearly half of wind turbines in the state are out of commission due to the storm:


Wind farms across the state generate up to a combined 25,100 megawatts of energy. But unusually moist winter conditions in West Texas brought on by the weekend’s freezing rain and historically low temperatures have iced many of those wind turbines to a halt.


As of Sunday morning, those iced turbines comprise 12,000 megawatts of Texas’ installed wind generation capacity, although those West Texas turbines don’t typically spin to their full generation capacity this time of year.



TampaBay.com echoed this, while somehow claiming it does not matter. The Florida publication notes that in winter months, 25% of Texas’s power supply comes from wind energy, and 50% of this energy is now nonexistent because of the frozen turbines.


The website then suggests that because traditional fossil fuels were unable to adequately make up for the missing energy, due to simple scarcity of not being having enough readily available natural gas to make up for the increased demand generated by both the extreme cold and and useless frozen wind turbines, they should be blamed.


In short, Psaki and Democrat media claim: Wind turbines now make up 25% of Texas’s winter power supply as the state has slowly phased out natural gas and clean coal. Half of these turbines froze, increasing the demand for natural gas. Because less natural gas is readily available, in part due to the relatively new reliance on now-useless wind turbines, we should blame natural gas and fossil fuels for the power failures.


BLATANT LIE: Biden Administration Says Coal, Natural Gas Caused Texas Blackouts, Not Frozen Wind Turbines - National File



Maybe in the future subhumans types will have a fully functional brain.

[Sybil Ludington]

I'm glad that your half a brain cell can't muster enough intelligence to figure $#@! out.


Biden regime Press Secretary Jen Psaki falsely claimed that coal and natural gas power plants are responsible for the current blackouts in Texas that are leaving millions without power during an arctic cold snap that is seeing temperature highs in the low single digits, with wind chills colder than Alaska’s.



This is blatantly untrue. It was widely reported by mainstream publications that Texas’s wind turbines froze solid during the worst parts of the freeze. As Texas has slowly phased out coal and natural gas to please Washington, D.C. climate alarmists, this complete shutdown of wind energy led to increased reliance on coal and natural gas. As a result, the supply of coal and natural gas power was quickly depleted.


This likely would not have happened, however, without the completely useless frozen wind turbines that now litter rural Texas.


“This is a unique winter storm that’s more widespread with lots of moisture in West Texas, where there’s a lot of times not a lot of moisture,” Senior Director of System Operations for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas Dan Woodfin noted, adding, “It’s certainly more than what we would typically assume.”


Most ‘spare’ capacity was eliminated because many wind turbines are frozen…” Texas Storm Chasers reported on Twitter.


It was reported by The Austin American-Statesman that nearly half of wind turbines in the state are out of commission due to the storm:


Wind farms across the state generate up to a combined 25,100 megawatts of energy. But unusually moist winter conditions in West Texas brought on by the weekend’s freezing rain and historically low temperatures have iced many of those wind turbines to a halt.


As of Sunday morning, those iced turbines comprise 12,000 megawatts of Texas’ installed wind generation capacity, although those West Texas turbines don’t typically spin to their full generation capacity this time of year.



TampaBay.com echoed this, while somehow claiming it does not matter. The Florida publication notes that in winter months, 25% of Texas’s power supply comes from wind energy, and 50% of this energy is now nonexistent because of the frozen turbines.


The website then suggests that because traditional fossil fuels were unable to adequately make up for the missing energy, due to simple scarcity of not being having enough readily available natural gas to make up for the increased demand generated by both the extreme cold and and useless frozen wind turbines, they should be blamed.


In short, Psaki and Democrat media claim: Wind turbines now make up 25% of Texas’s winter power supply as the state has slowly phased out natural gas and clean coal. Half of these turbines froze, increasing the demand for natural gas. Because less natural gas is readily available, in part due to the relatively new reliance on now-useless wind turbines, we should blame natural gas and fossil fuels for the power failures.


BLATANT LIE: Biden Administration Says Coal, Natural Gas Caused Texas Blackouts, Not Frozen Wind Turbines - National File



Maybe in the future subhumans types will have a fully functional brain.

I'm still waiting to hear HOW they justify coal/gas are responsible for power outages. Anybody with even half a brain should KNOW this is a blatant LIE.

[Sybil Ludington]

‘What the hell, man’? Stephen King gleefully taunts freezing Texans because Donald Trump doesn’t believe in climate change

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/20...e67b2f02003c45



SERIOUSLY?!

[MMC]

‘What the hell, man’? Stephen King gleefully taunts freezing Texans because Donald Trump doesn’t believe in climate change

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/20...e67b2f02003c45



SERIOUSLY?!

Leftists are happy that California isnt back in the news with their rolling power outages.

[carolina73]

Yes he was spot on.
They heavily depend on the wind turbines in the summer which accounts for the overall dependence.
They do not, as Jesse said, depend as much on the wind turbines in the winter.
Notice the total winter capacity.
I know it's hard for you to understand but it means they cut back on wind turbine dependence in the winter.
Correction...it's probably impossible for you to comprehend that winter time dependence is only 10%.

You have an excuse making leftist who preaches green energy. He has an agenda.
https://mae.princeton.edu/people/faculty/jenkins

[Sybil Ludington]

Bette Midler: ‘TX Outages is God Punishing GOP Senators’

https://thinkamericana.com/bette-mid...-gop-senators/


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