While in Texas, millions of Texans were without power in the freezing temperatures below Tuesday night. Gov. Greg Abbott (R) went to Fox News and told Sean Hannity that the failure of the state’s power grid “shows how the Green New Deal will be a fatal deal for the United States.” “Our winds and our solar have stopped,” Abbott said, “pushing Texas into a state where there was a statewide power shortage.” The main culprit for the Texas power outage is failures in the natural gas sector, however, on Wednesday, Abbott returned to his comment.
“I was asked a question about renewables on a TV show, and I answered that question,” Abbott said. “Every source of energy in the state of Texas has been compromised, whether it’s renewable energy like wind or solar, but, as I said today, there is also the use of electricity generated from coal, electricity, gas.” . “
According to the management of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), in 2020, 40 percent of Texas 40% came from natural gas plants, 23 percent from wind turbines, 18 percent from coal, and 11 percent from nuclear power. Texas Power Grid. But in winter, only 7 percent of ERCOT’s capacity was estimated to come from wind sources.
“Texas is still fossil fuel,” and it’s foolish to explicitly state that “the Republicans who run the state accidentally adopted the Green New Deal, which eliminated fossil fuels and destroyed the reliability of the grid,” writes Michael Granwald. Politico. “The real problem in Texas is the bizarre weather, and unfortunately, climate change delivers much more bizarre weather,” said Katharine Heho, a Texas Tech climate scientist.
Explaining the Texas grid failures, B Boat urged Wednesday that “this is a one-on-one 120-year cold front to which we must respond.” But “today, only idiots expect a hundred years of drought or flood or snowfall to happen once every hundred years,” Grunwald said, and Texas – and America needs to prepare accordingly.
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