Mojo
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Most of Texas's electricity is from natural gas. Yes many turbines have stopped working in the cold. But the gas freezing up is a much larger issue for them.
Texas largely relies on natural gas for power. It wasn’t ready for the extreme cold.
My general view is that wind and solar (and other green energy) as they exist today are completely inadequate to deal with cities and areas of large populations..and throw a 100 million electric cars in over the next xx decade then this energy mix clearly on show via Texas is not going to save them...not even close.
The carbon footprint of wind and solar is hard to refute..yet Nuclear power has proven itself overwhelmingly safe, clean, economical, ultra low co2 emissions and in fact the only alternative to fossil fuels that can successfully and economically replace it and result in co2 emission from making electricity so low its in the range of what is needed-look at Sweden, France and Ottawa.
Granted treating HLW needs a global solution..but if we can land a car sized rover on Mars..surely we can deal with radioactive waste.
And finally yes the elephant in the living room is not energy. Its 7 billion people who think they are entitled to more.