F' LYIN TED, CRUZ('n) to CANCUN.

Just think; going to Cancun is only the 2nd or 3rd worst thing Cruz has done this year.
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That's the best you can come up with as a rebuttal?
It's about as good as your "six degrees of Obama" in your response. The problems in Texas were because Obama made us buy windmills. Not quite, but if it makes you happy.

We have a lot of windmills here in Kansas, and in temps that dipped to almost 20 below, they still worked. And Obama's edict to get rid of coal plants was heeded, but there was not stipulation that we replace them with windmills. They were replaced with natural gas. But because we don't have a bunch of gas reserves underground, we have to store quite a bit of gas. When the demand went up, they tapped that.

In the week that Texas was without power, the longest anyone here went without power was an hour. But Texas has all this extra gas underground..so let's just keep it there until we need it. Unless the equipment freezes up. They we can blame the windmills for freezing or we can blame Obama for making us shut down coal plants. And it's freaking POOR PLANNING if Texas shut down a coal plant before it's replacement was operational. And I truly doubt that they closed a coal plant near Houston and replaced it with a windmill in Amarillo.
 
It's about as good as your "six degrees of Obama" in your response. The problems in Texas were because Obama made us buy windmills. Not quite, but if it makes you happy.

We have a lot of windmills here in Kansas, and in temps that dipped to almost 20 below, they still worked. And Obama's edict to get rid of coal plants was heeded, but there was not stipulation that we replace them with windmills. They were replaced with natural gas. But because we don't have a bunch of gas reserves underground, we have to store quite a bit of gas. When the demand went up, they tapped that.

In the week that Texas was without power, the longest anyone here went without power was an hour. But Texas has all this extra gas underground..so let's just keep it there until we need it. Unless the equipment freezes up. They we can blame the windmills for freezing or we can blame Obama for making us shut down coal plants. And it's freaking POOR PLANNING if Texas shut down a coal plant before it's replacement was operational. And I truly doubt that they closed a coal plant near Houston and replaced it with a windmill in Amarillo.
When windmills are ordered, they are fitted for the climate where they will operate, hence no need for deice in Texas.

If I recollect, it was Obama EPA reg's that dictated the shutting down of coal fired power plants.
 
When windmills are ordered, they are fitted for the climate where they will operate, hence no need for deice in Texas.

If I recollect, it was Obama EPA reg's that dictated the shutting down of coal fired power plants.

Again...was it the windmills fault that the natural gas plants froze up? And was Obama dictate that shutting down coal had to be immediate? Gosh...here in Kansas, he gave us time to convert our coal plants to gas. Is Texas really that stupid that they would close a plant without a replacement?
 
Again...was it the windmills fault that the natural gas plants froze up? And was Obama dictate that shutting down coal had to be immediate? Gosh...here in Kansas, he gave us time to convert our coal plants to gas. Is Texas really that stupid that they would close a plant without a replacement?
Windmills aren't a very reliable source of green energy and you know it. Wind is it at it's peak in spring and fall when demand is at its lowest and relatively dormant in the summer and winter.....when demand is at it's highest.
So you have to rely on good old proven fossil fuels.
Like you said, WM's only supply 6% in the winter. Now you know why.

You keep harping about the midwest and wind turbines, yet a quick look finds they are affected in a huge way due to cold weather conditions, probably on a higher frequency than Texas.

Wind energy across the Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s northern region, stretching from Minnesota to Iowa, peaked that morning between 9 and 10 a.m. at 11,445 megawatts. Wind farms were churning out about half of the area’s total electric output, according to the grid operator’s hourly data.
At the time, it was minus 8 degrees Fahrenheit at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Blustering winds made it feel like minus 19 F.
But grid operators would watch as electricity from wind steadily tailed off during the next day and a half.
By the evening of Jan. 30, there was less than 550 MW on the MISO North grid, supplying just 2.5 percent of the region’s power. The temperature, which had bottomed out an hour earlier, had fallen to minus 21 F with a minus 31 F wind chill.

https://energynews.us/2019/02/27/mi...wns-during-polar-vortex-stoke-midwest-debate/

If I remember, a very similar problem happened several years ago somewhere up there....Turbines failed,in cold weather, then gas turbines, which were planned as a back up, and the gas supply for power generation, was quickly depleted as homes began to turn up their furnaces. Funny thing, for some reason it didn't make the news like an event in a republican stronghold, yet people were effected to a similar degree.
 
Windmills aren't a very reliable source of green energy and you know it. Wind is it at it's peak in spring and fall when demand is at its lowest and relatively dormant in the summer and winter.....when demand is at it's highest.
So you have to rely on good old proven fossil fuels.
Like you said, WM's only supply 6% in the winter. Now you know why.

You keep harping about the midwest and wind turbines, yet a quick look finds they are affected in a huge way due to cold weather conditions, probably on a higher frequency than Texas.

Wind energy across the Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s northern region, stretching from Minnesota to Iowa, peaked that morning between 9 and 10 a.m. at 11,445 megawatts. Wind farms were churning out about half of the area’s total electric output, according to the grid operator’s hourly data.
At the time, it was minus 8 degrees Fahrenheit at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Blustering winds made it feel like minus 19 F.
But grid operators would watch as electricity from wind steadily tailed off during the next day and a half.
By the evening of Jan. 30, there was less than 550 MW on the MISO North grid, supplying just 2.5 percent of the region’s power. The temperature, which had bottomed out an hour earlier, had fallen to minus 21 F with a minus 31 F wind chill.

https://energynews.us/2019/02/27/mi...wns-during-polar-vortex-stoke-midwest-debate/

If I remember, a very similar problem happened several years ago somewhere up there....Turbines failed,in cold weather, then gas turbines, which were planned as a back up, and the gas supply for power generation, was quickly depleted as homes began to turn up their furnaces. Funny thing, for some reason it didn't make the news like an event in a republican stronghold, yet people were effected to a similar degree.
Texas couldn't get the the gas to turn it on.

I don't really give a damn about green enegy except when people try to use it to cover for their failures in so many areas in Texas.

Also....if Texans thought those days without power were bad, just wait until they get their electric bill this March. I wonder if they'll be praising deregulation then.
 
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