Federal government complicit in Texas catastrophe

[rangerrebew]

Federal government complicit in Texas catastrophe
February 23, 2021 by Robert

“I think the global warming bull is criminal.”
– Joseph Kraig
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Federal government complicit in Texas catastrophe

Joseph Kraig

I think the global warming bull is criminal. When we are unable to grow enough food to easily feed the world because of the cold, what will we do?

Texans, who often get cool temperatures in the winter, were hit with record lows (far below freezing temperatures) last week. Those record lows led to a surge of electricity usage. The windmills and snow-covered frozen solar cells could not produce electricity so the utilities had to rely on their coal fired generators.

That shouldn’t be a problem.

https://www.iceagenow.info/federal-government-complicit-in-texas-catastrophe/

[thackney]

More blog junk.  These attempts to make a boogyman out of the fed government in this situation are going to leave us missing nearly all of the problems, weatherization of equipment.

Coal plants also lost units, about 30% of capacity dropping offline.

The government would not issue a waiver to the limits of production unless the utilities charged $1500.00 per megawatt (about 15 times normal). Usual prices for a megawatt are between $90 and $130 retail in most of Texas.

Units are wrong, you don't buy and sell WM.  It is measured in MWH.  Since the price was already up to $9,000, this limit had no effect.

Texas wholesale electric prices spike more than 10,000% amid outages
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-electricity-texas-prices/texas-wholesale-electric-prices-spike-more-than-10000-amid-outages-idUSKBN2AF19A