Wind Turbine in Texas Causes--You Guessed It--Global Warming

Sounds like a real Chernobyl event. Maybe we should cut down all the trees in the world too? Those suckers are like lighting rods and kindle combined.

 

Sometimes they do cut them down........and replace then with solar fields.

 

Texas always finds a way to do things backwards.

 

What do you think the ratio of trees cut down for solar fields is to trees cut down for other purposes? A Trillion to one?

 

It’s actually just a sparkler. Here is TX we do everything big.

 

Can oil wells catch fire

 

Good point. Do away with any efforts to reduce carbon emissions no matter how de minimus said emissions might be.

 

Don't know whether you're actually serious, but the carbon dioxide released by wind turbine fires is infinitesimal compared with the carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels to generate electricity. Reminds me of one of the former president's favorite narratives performed at his MAGA rallies when he rants about avian deaths from wind turbines while conveniently failing to mention that the extraction and burning of fossil fuels kills far more birds than wind turbines or as he likes to refer to them "windmills".

 

“Windmills” perfectly sums up his take. And he has no idea why it does, which is the gold.

 

Actually…there is a chance you have it backwards. At least when it comes to a lot of things as many companies have replanting programs to make sure their resource is sustainable. Don’t think a solar farm is replanting many trees…

 

Sure… a quick google search says there were 6 trillion trees when human came about, now there are 3 trillion… that’s a lot of solar farms if your math is correct…. Lol.

 

I thought that 34% you typed was an error, but it is actually directionally correct.

Wind and solar power are 'bailing out' Texas amid record heat and energy demand


But unlike previous extreme weather events in Texas which led to deadly blackouts, the grid is holding up remarkably well this week. Several experts told CNN that it's owed in large part to strong performances from wind and solar, which generated 27 gigawatts of electricity during Sunday's peak demand -- close to 40% of the total needed.

Despite the Texas Republican rhetoric that wind and solar are unreliable, Texas has a massive and growing fleet of renewables. Zero-carbon electricity sources (wind, solar, and nuclear) powered about 38% of the state's power in 2021, rivaling natural gas at 42%


This is shocking to me and is great news.

 

So the trees were already removed and not replaced?

My point is trees are typically replanted when the industry involves using them.

 

It seems like there could be a technology solution to this problem. But ERCOT won’t require it, so nobody there will do it.

 

Solar Power Is Bailing Texas Out This Summer

Another good article. Of course is spite of the good news, whenever there is a hiccup ERDOT blames it on wind and solar.


“We’ve got twice the solar we had last summer, and something like three times what we had eighteen months ago,” energy consultant Doug Lewin told me on Monday. “We actually set another solar record today, and we set one yesterday. Renewables throughout most of May and June, as we’ve been experiencing extreme heat, really were the difference between [having] a whole lot of conservation calls and potential rolling outages and not having them.”


The two key renewable energy sources contributing to the Texas power grid are solar and wind power; solar accounts for roughly 25 percent of the renewable resources on the grid, while wind represents the other three quarters, according to Andrew Dessler, director of the Texas Center for Climate Studies at Texas A&M.

 

Alaska would like to remind Texas that Alaska could be split in half and both halves would be bigger than Texas