Thus sayeth Chuckie the Schumer. The reason the Texas power grid failed, they did not consider climate change in the design. Yeah right, climate change is at fault for everything.
The reason for the Texas blackout is a lot of power plants failed. I am still seeing conflicting stories on just which plants went down when. Some say the windmills failed. Others say the natural gas suppliers failed causing the natural gas plant to shut down. The Wall St Journal blames it on the windmills. Another writer gives an hour by hour megawatt by megawatt account which shows the windmills shut down first, but they were not providing much juice and the natural gas plants dropped off line later.
There are some questions that no one is talking about. Such as. Why did the windmills shut down? Some people have mentioned icing in the cold weather. How does a windmill get stopped by ice? The rotor has enough torque to turn the alternator under load, surely that is enough torque to break any amount of ice that might be obstructing the rotation.
What caused the natural gas supplies to stop? Again people have mentioned freezing weather. Natural gas won't freeze at any temperature a winter cold snap can reach. What did freeze? Or do the natural gas pipelines rely upon electric power to pump the gas thru the pipe?
We need to get to the real causes of the Texas blackout and then make sure that New Hampshire does not have the same problems.
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