I noted this elsewhere citing the Dallas Morning News: A Heatwave Without Wind Is a Problem For the Texas Grid.
Anyone who knows anything about the power industry knows that peak demand generally takes place between 5 pm and 8 pm.
What Texas has done this week, like every other shithole system dependent on trashing wilderness for wind industrial parks, is to burn dangerous fossil fuels and dump the waste directly into the planetary atmosphere.
Typically, people who applaud the miserably failed solar and wind industry ignore the dependence of dangerous fossil fuels that the solar and wind lipstick on the pig entrenches.
If Texas was dependent on wind energy for all of its electricity, people would have died this week from extreme heat, infinitely more than died from the radiation releases big, big, big boogeyman at Fukushima that obsesses the preternaturally stupid.
Texas, of course, unlike Germany, which is funding Putin's war because it bought into the "renewable energy will save us" clap trap that led the planet to begin burning, has lots of dangerous natural gas, which they are unashamed to burn, especially if they can charge poor people lots of money for the electricity in their "free market."
And of course, even though the wind has started blowing a little bit, they're still overwhelming supplied by burning dangerous fossil fuels and dumping the waste directly into the planetary atmosphere, not that our wind/solar/gas/coal mavens give a shit about climate change. Oh, I forgot, coal/gas/petroleum/wind/solar and hydrogen mavens, you know, people who never bothered to even try to understand the laws of thermodynamics that govern the universe.
The carbon intensity of Texas, as of this writing, is 322 grams of carbon dioxide per kwh, entirely unacceptable in a sustainable world. Screw the cheering. Much of the power being generated there is being generated because of climate change, extreme temperatures resulting from the fact that 50 years of "solar and wind will save us bullshit" did nothing to address the rising rates of accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. After spending trillions of dollars on solar and wind, the first derivative of carbon dioxide concentrations is 2.45 ppm/year, up from 1.52/ppm in the year 2000, meaning that the second derivative is around 0.05 ppm/yr^2.
If this trend continues, the rate of accumulation will be 3.05 ppm in 12 years, when we will have passed carbon dioxide concentrations of 450 ppm.
I'm not much for soothsaying, having listened to Amory Lovins' bourgeois fantasies about hydrogen cars back in the 20th century, but I'll step out of my normal reluctance to do that and predict that in 2034, with climate change rates further accelerated to around 3.0ppm/year, and measurements above 450 ppm and rising rates of carbon dioxide dumping and accumulation, there will still be people posting delusional bullshit about how wind and solar are saving the day, and someday we'll all drive hydrogen cars. This crap will go on until the last molecule of CO2 is dumped. Getting to 420 ppm just ten years after we hit 400 ppm and the increase of 50 ppm in this century hasn't caused people to reconsider their dogma or stop cheering for this nonsense. 450 ppm won't either.
Faith based ignorance is pretty persistent, and in fact, is rather proud of itself.
Have a nice day tomorrow.
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