Hello Foxy,

There certainly is a lot to unpack here.

An interesting aspect for me is that Texas is a Republican stronghold.

Republicans champion reduced handouts and less government interference.

The legislators just this year made it easier for thermal electricity generators to operate and layered renewable generators with red tape obligations.

Despite this the money is flowing towards renewables.

Imagine the changes that could take place if it was a level playing field with no market interference?

Hi WTF?,

It certainly is interesting.

USA Today says that - "power from zero carbon sources made up
a full 41% of the US electricity mix in 2022 - a record
breaking number that has increased almost every year since
1990."

This increase has come from the rapid build-out of solar and
wind power whose costs have plummeted in the past 2 decades.

http://usatoday.com/story/news/2023/03/01/clean-energy-hits-record-us-2023-sustainable-energy-factbook/11324041002/

Just listened to a woman talking about electric cars which she said shoulkd really be called coal cars because the electricity to charge them still comes from coal as no alternatives have yet been found.
The most valid point was that batteries work well on small appliances such as tools. However, battery powered cars are a totally different game. Due to the heavy batteries a car has to lump around wherever it goes it adds up to 1km vs 11km for Gasoline for the total weight of the vehicle.

This is ridiculous. Texas closes down vast units of cheap, though fossil fuelled, power, and replaces it with so-called clean power. Then when the clean power turns out to provide some of the power that was lost, people go all weak-kneed at the wonder of it all.

Its as though a chap wantonly cuts of his healthy right leg, replacing it with a prosthetic substitute. Then as he walks around the garden he marvels at how he'd be completely immobile if it wasn't for that artificial limb.

Dear mhaze,

But he wouldn't be able to be mobile without the
artificial leg. So isn't that a good thing?

Well said mhaze! I would swap 'ridiculous' for 'moronic'.

WTF doesn't seem to know what he thinks about it. The standard of English comprehension and expression is getting worse on OLO. You are likely to be snapped at these days because you have apparently misinterpreted someone's gibberish.

The poor English skills of the renewables crowd, combined with their inability or unwillingness to read anything that's not on Google or in the MSM makes it impossible for them to understand that they are being had and made fools of.

When they are broke, cold and hungry, in the dark, they might get the message.