…but the primary reason for the current outages is that fossil fuel plants failed. Wind power etc has also failed but is a rounding error in terms of lost production.
> if Texas invested in coal instead of making the large investments they made in solar and wind, this never would have happened.
If they invested that money in coal and failed to winterise it in the same way they failed to winterise the other plants then there would be absolutely zero difference.
This is kind of a meta point and probably sounds patronising, but you’ve just said a bunch of stuff that’s flat out wrong. It’s time to start questioning your information diet. Where are you being fed disinformation from? What can you do to diversify your sources of news?
> if Texas invested in coal instead of making the large investments they made in solar and wind, this never would have happened.
If they invested that money in coal and failed to winterise it in the same way they failed to winterise the other plants then there would be absolutely zero difference.
This is kind of a meta point and probably sounds patronising, but you’ve just said a bunch of stuff that’s flat out wrong. It’s time to start questioning your information diet. Where are you being fed disinformation from? What can you do to diversify your sources of news?