They'll blame it on fossil fuels, Musk and Russia.
When Texas had an outage, the left blamed it on gas power plants and the right claimed it was due to so called renewables. I never managed to figure out what the real reason was. Given the fact that I heard very little of the left's explanation in the media, I assume it was their fault.
This but also because government officials refused to waive some environmental regulations/limits on fuel burning for several of the power plants within Texas. Which, had they been allowed to operate at higher energy production, for what was quite clearly a temporary and extraordinary event, would have alleviated the blackouts if not outright avoided them in their entirety.
I've seen it blamed on storms and blamed on an "induced atmospheric variation" but I'm taking it all with a grain of salt right now. Everything is so damn censored and political now.
As for Texas, people were so triggered and tried so much to politicize the near-state-wide-outage, that to this day almost every time ERCOT posts something on Twitter, people remind them of their failure or try to inject something about Gov. Abbott or bad orange man being at fault for everything down to squirrels chewing on wires.
Probably not. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ Solar flux and geomagnetics have all been pretty normal for the past day.
As for Texas
Cascading failure. You need power to compress natural gas, you need natural gas to generate power. You have very little import capacity from surrounding grids and green energy was not able to keep up to it's rated specifications in that weather.
It's like any large system where tons of redundancy is built in. To get a visible system wide failure you need several layers to all fail or underperform enough at once.
My bet is on Russia. Seeing cucked Germans blaming the domestic terror attacks on Russia just to not admit that immigrants are a detriment was enough evidence. Funny how a country which is supposedly losing a war in Ukraine (don't ask your local redditor about how successful the Ukrainians were in Kursk), is somehow simultaneously capable of staging terror attacks in European ''democracies''.
Undecidedmask2 is correct about Texas. The Frost and snow was actually devastating to the infrastructure. To give you a clue how unexpected it was, it wasn't just power, but the roads, and even nature couldn't cope.
I went down to Texas in the fall after the "Snowpocalypse" and I'd say 50% of everyone's trees were dead. The trees were never adapted to that kind of a cold snap.
They'll blame it on fossil fuels, Musk and Russia.
When Texas had an outage, the left blamed it on gas power plants and the right claimed it was due to so called renewables. I never managed to figure out what the real reason was. Given the fact that I heard very little of the left's explanation in the media, I assume it was their fault.
A mix of renewables not being able to carry heavy loads, and Texas’ infrastructure not being built for such cold temperatures.
Yea, I live in Texas and even south Texas was below freezing. Extremely rare for the whole state to freeze. Plus the nuclear power went out
This but also because government officials refused to waive some environmental regulations/limits on fuel burning for several of the power plants within Texas. Which, had they been allowed to operate at higher energy production, for what was quite clearly a temporary and extraordinary event, would have alleviated the blackouts if not outright avoided them in their entirety.
I've seen it blamed on storms and blamed on an "induced atmospheric variation" but I'm taking it all with a grain of salt right now. Everything is so damn censored and political now.
As for Texas, people were so triggered and tried so much to politicize the near-state-wide-outage, that to this day almost every time ERCOT posts something on Twitter, people remind them of their failure or try to inject something about Gov. Abbott or bad orange man being at fault for everything down to squirrels chewing on wires.
So the thing the UK is attempting to do on purpose? 🤔
Let's blot out the sun. That will surely increase the energy output of our solar panels!
Probably not. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ Solar flux and geomagnetics have all been pretty normal for the past day.
Cascading failure. You need power to compress natural gas, you need natural gas to generate power. You have very little import capacity from surrounding grids and green energy was not able to keep up to it's rated specifications in that weather.
It's like any large system where tons of redundancy is built in. To get a visible system wide failure you need several layers to all fail or underperform enough at once.
ERCOT cartel needs to be dismantled.
My bet is on Russia. Seeing cucked Germans blaming the domestic terror attacks on Russia just to not admit that immigrants are a detriment was enough evidence. Funny how a country which is supposedly losing a war in Ukraine (don't ask your local redditor about how successful the Ukrainians were in Kursk), is somehow simultaneously capable of staging terror attacks in European ''democracies''.
Undecidedmask2 is correct about Texas. The Frost and snow was actually devastating to the infrastructure. To give you a clue how unexpected it was, it wasn't just power, but the roads, and even nature couldn't cope.
I went down to Texas in the fall after the "Snowpocalypse" and I'd say 50% of everyone's trees were dead. The trees were never adapted to that kind of a cold snap.