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A pleasant surprise:
Blow HereWind power has surpassed coal for the first time in Texas, according to a new report.The numbers cap an enormous rise in wind power in the nation's top energy-producing state over the past decades.
Wind has generated 22% of the state's electrical needs this year. It just edged out coal, which provided 21% of the Lone Star State's power, according to the Electrical Reliability Council of Texas, which manages electrical flow on about 90% of the Texan grid.
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Coal and gas are always there and ready, when wind & solar fail.
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Not really Joe, a cold start in a coal plant can take the better part of two days.
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The eco wackos are taking our four dams from the Klamath river, so our lights are going out.
Old redneck hillbilly borned and raised on a redwood stump.
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I'm sureOriginally Posted by Billy_Rightwing
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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I don't know about the lights going out but everything else he said is correct and I'm sure.I'm sure
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That’s why they are in “spinning reserve,” Dave.
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
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Yes sir---polluting away
Actually what they do, depending on load demand, is to base load the coal plants(s) at a fixed output and then vary the gas plants. They can bring a combined cycle gas plant on in about an hour.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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All of the geriatric arguing aside I think that wind power is remarkable and I hope it is able to sustain itself wherever the wind makes it feasible.
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