Texas blackouts fuel false claims about renewable energy

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With millions of Texas residents still without power amid frigid temperatures, conservative commentators have falsely claimed that wind turbines and solar energy were primarily to blame.

“We should never build another wind turbine in Texas,” read a Tuesday Facebook post from Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller. “The experiment failed big time.”

“This is a perfect example of the need for reliable energy sources like natural gas & coal,” tweeted U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, a Republican from Montana, on Tuesday.

In reality, failures in natural gas, coal and nuclear energy systems were responsible for nearly twice as many outages as frozen wind turbines and solar panels, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s power grid, said in a press conference Tuesday.

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https://apnews.com/article/false-claims-texas-blackout-wind-turbine-f9e24976e9723021bec21f9a68afe927

[Auggie]

1. Didn't take long for the disaster capitalists to surface

Where's the Progressive response? It needs to be just as loud and ubiquitous.

[WHITT]

2. Some Of The Northern Turbines Froze

but the ones down on the coast were spinning above normal, so total output from wind turbines was around normal.

It was the coal, gas, and nuclear plants that failed to deliver.

I think Abbott will blame the dog catcher next, as he's already tried blaming everybody else.