We know wind power isn't reliable, that's why everyone has natural gas power plants to fill in the gaps in demand. But when a natural disaster creates temperatures thirty degrees below your minimum temperature, even those fail.
That's not completely true - the Salem nuclear plant in New Jersey had to shut down one of its units in 2019 when suspended ice reduced the intake flow for the open loop of the reactor's water cooling system. Extreme cold weather conditions like the ones in Texas may or may not be sufficient to cause the same problem there.
We know wind power isn't reliable, that's why everyone has natural gas power plants to fill in the gaps in demand. But when a natural disaster creates temperatures thirty degrees below your minimum temperature, even those fail.
Nuclear doesn't fail.
That's not completely true - the Salem nuclear plant in New Jersey had to shut down one of its units in 2019 when suspended ice reduced the intake flow for the open loop of the reactor's water cooling system. Extreme cold weather conditions like the ones in Texas may or may not be sufficient to cause the same problem there.
Alaska has entire wind farms that operate through out winter. One of those windfarms is actually on an a small island surrounded by ocean water.