{"id":239537,"date":"2023-01-14T12:17:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T11:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=239537"},"modified":"2023-01-14T12:19:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T11:19:25","slug":"frozen-wind-turbines-solar-panels-leave-thousands-of-americans-freezing-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=239537","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Wind Turbines & Solar Panels Leave Thousands of Americans Freezing In The Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From STOP THESE THINGS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Far from threatening human existence, coal and gas have, once again, literally saved thousands of American lives. A bout of what is now known as \u2018extreme weather\u2019 demonstrates how extremely stupid it is to rely upon sunshine and breezes for power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During December\u2019s Big Freeze, millions of America\u2019s solar panels were carpeted in snow and ice; thousands of its wind turbines were frozen solid  \u2013 any that weren\u2019t were shut down to prevent their destruction by gale-force winds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same thing happened back in February 2021<\/a> \u2013 and will keep happening, for as long as lunatics are left in charge of America\u2019s energy policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across Texas and the American Midwest power prices rocketed and power rationing (aka \u2018demand management\u2019 \u2013 if you call a series of rolling blackouts \u2018management\u2019) \u2013 saw to it that thousands of households were left freezing in the dark. No doubt modern energy Scrooges would have felt content, as families attempted to celebrate an unnecessarily cold and miserable Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a couple of pieces on America\u2019s wind and solar \u2018transition\u2019 to a bitter, cold and powerless future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gas Power Saves Texas From Blackouts, As Wind Power Collapses Again!<\/strong>
Not a Lot of People Know That
Paul Homewood
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Over the weekend the US declared a Grid Emergency in Texas, as temperatures plummeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/uk.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/texas-power-prices-spike-more-165419011.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The emergency order from the US Energy Department allowed the state\u2019s grid operator to exceed certain air pollution limits to boost generation amid record power demand in the state. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, whose service area includes 90% of electric customers in Texas, requested the emergency order Friday, warning it may need to resort to blackouts. TRANSLATION \u2013 fire up more coal and gas plants!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately a repetition of the blackouts last year was avoided. But as we can see, it was gas power which came to the rescue, as wind power collapsed to virtually nothing at the same time as demand surged:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Texas has 35 GW of wind capacity, but the output was running below 5 GW throughout Saturday, and down to 2 GW for much of the day. This certainly was not due to lack of wind, quite the opposite in fact. Whether wind power collapsed because of the winds being too strong, or because of freezing up, I do not know. But either way, it was a weather-related issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully ERCOT was able to call on ample gas power capacity, both to replace the loss of wind power and meet surging demand, which peaked at 74 GW, about 15 GW more than normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without that gas power, Texas would have faced a catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can forget about importing power from other regions as well, because the Arctic weather covered about two-thirds of the country, so there would have been no surplus renewable power anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Biden still wants carbon-free electricity by 2035. How many millions of Americans will freeze to death if he gets his way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Blackouts Today, Blackouts Tomorrow, Blackouts Forever!<\/strong>
Powerline
John Hinderaker
26 December 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tennessee Valley Authority was one of the success stories of the New Deal, or at least, so it was long believed. But that was when they could keep the lights on. Now, Tennessee is experiencing rolling blackouts<\/a>. Clay Travis is appropriately appalled, as Tennessee\u2013one of our better-run states, in general\u2013slips toward third-world status:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nashville\u2019s mayor is asking the @titans<\/a> to postpone kickoff to conserve energy. What kind of banana land republic has our national energy policy become that this could ever be possible. https:\/\/t.co\/12QGvNSSsj<\/a><\/p>— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) December 24, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>