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18. It has been cold in Michigan for the past couple of weeks.

Tue Feb 16, 2021, 03:51 PM

Feb 2021

Yet our turbines just keep on spinning.

I went past a bunch last weekend. They were perfectly fine.

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Sweden Shows Texas How to Keep Turbines Spinning in Icy Weather [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2021 OP

They seem to work just fine everywhere but Texas. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2021 #1

They're all over the place here in Wisconsin too! Greybnk48 Feb 2021 #3

Small Items 4Q2u2 Feb 2021 #4

To be fair, it is cold for much longer in MN and WI than Texas dsc Feb 2021 #5

:) And reality and rationality intrude. Hortensis Feb 2021 #6

Quite right. But the point, to me, is... Mister Ed Feb 2021 #10

Sadly BeerBarrelPolka Feb 2021 #20

Yeah, I'm calling "bullshit" on "the ones in Texas froze up." GoCubsGo Feb 2021 #9

+1! TheRickles Feb 2021 #11

They work just fine in New England n/t sarge43 Feb 2021 #27

In-depth presentation from 2008, when they started the project Celerity Feb 2021 #2

Working here in NW Missouri UpInArms Feb 2021 #7

GM vs. Norway mezame Feb 2021 #12

I read where there is a cold weather package gab13by13 Feb 2021 #13

Of course they did not think Texas needed turbines TNNurse Feb 2021 #14

Their isolated grid may be saving us from a larger regional outage. roamer65 Feb 2021 #19

They could have been, it's at least 50 years now Clearly fogged in Feb 2021 #31

We just had some -40 weather. Turbines were fine. TrogL Feb 2021 #15

Yeah, but what about the windmill cancer? cos dem Feb 2021 #16

Texas natural gas pipelines and compressors froze IronLionZion Feb 2021 #17

It has been cold in Michigan for the past couple of weeks. roamer65 Feb 2021 #18

I love Uljabuoda stories Botany Feb 2021 #22

With respect, this is not "Texas' fault" SpankMe Feb 2021 #23

Texas Oil Exec: Grokenstein Feb 2021 #24

Chris Hayes tweeted that the turbine excuse is BS tishaLA Feb 2021 #29