Infidel Dog

Beave call home. They miss you. Seriously, click over to RandomThoughtsCommentsandObservations. But back on topic. You appear to be missing me here. Ahhh...ain't that cute. So yeah. Ted Cruz took his kids to Cancun for the weekend and the Global Corporate Left, Powers that Be ordered its followers to freak out about it. Not sure why. Ted Cruz has nothing to do with state government. He's federal. There's nothing he could do about the Texas Grid. If I had the money to take my kids to Cancun and dodge a weekend in the Texas deep-freeze it's what I'd do too. And don't lie, so would you. I'm not even sure how much state government does. I was under the impression it was the ironically named " Electric Reliability Council of Texas that was responsible. They feel kind of lefty to me. A quarter of texas energy comes from wind. ERCOT could have spent that money it infested in unreliable alternatives like wind and invested it in winterizing the more reliable traditional energies (starting with insulating pipes and such.) Also in making sure re-supply of coal and natural gas was available. It's what real conservatives would have done. It's even what Trump would have done. Whoever ERCOT is I hope they'll get smarter now.

I heard about this one on Gab. Might be another Chrome alternative. I'm happy switching back and forth from Brave to Tor myself, but if anybody is looking to kick the Chrome/Google habit with something different, here ya go: https://dissenter.com/ On second thought, after reading that, I think I will check that one out. I remember those things from the late nineties, early millenium. Utok and Third Choice - anybody remember them? I kinda liked them.

On another matter it looks like Bill Gates wants another title. There's big competition for this one but Bill's surging into the lead. Bill Gates = World's Biggest Climate Hypocrite

Yeah DW is an aggregator of European news. Sometimes if Google likes one of the stories they find they'll allow you to know about it. That one seems to be one of those, "Yeah, solar and wind have problems with intermittent stoppages but 'boy O boy' just you wait until we get improved battery technology." So yeah, we can wait but in the meantime Texas should take Dana Loesch's advice and stop slipping billions to Friends of Democrats to subsidize a so-far failing technology at the expense of proven ones.

I liked Texas broadcaster, Dana Loesch's response to Beto O'rourke and AOC virtue signalling about raising money for Texans. "That's great..." she says, "I will consider that a down payment on the 20 billion tax payer dollars that people used to build wind turbines instead of properly winterizing the existing infrastructure and insulating gas pipes.

You might be having trouble finding things if you're using Google. They don't like to tell you what they don't want you to know.

That story is from 2 years ago. Here's a more recent one: Here's another one from yesterday: "Germany's millions of solar panels are blanketed in snow and ice and its 30,000 wind turbines are doing nothing as the freezing weather has no wind resource to keep the turbines operating. Instead, the solar and wind units are drawing power from the grid powered mainly by coal to keep their internal workings from freezing up. Despite Germany being the poster child of Europe's renewable future, the country's Energiewende--transition to wind and solar power--is not working. The Germans have found that dependable, dispatchable coal can work in any weather and is the savior during these cold months. The plan is that Germany will have to rely more on natural gas from Russia, coal power from Poland and nuclear power from France, importing power along huge cables, instead of building a huge fleet of batteries to back up its intermittent renewable power." https://energycentral.com/news/institute-energy-research-coal-rescues-germany-its-renewable-folly This one below is a week old but it's saying more or less the same thing: "This year, the coldest weather in a decade arrives in western Europe. Bitter cold and snow sweep across western Europe including Germany, Great Britain, and France. Germany faces a sober reality as millions of its solar panels are blanketed in snow and ice and breathless. The freezing weather has rendered its 30,000 wind turbines to idleness. It is not just the wind turbines. Solar panels covered with snow are also rendered useless. You may call it “coal comfort” as a total collapse in the wind and solar output leaves freezing Germans desperate for coal-fired power." https://worldnewsera.com/news/startups/germanys-green-energy-failure-germany-turns-back-to-coal-and-natural-gas-as-millions-of-its-solar-panels-are-blanketed-in-snow-and-ice-tech-news-startup/

And as previously noted, this isn't just happening in Texas. Here's what's happening in Germany:

And here's what a different Texas paper was saying when the crisis began - before all the minimizing of Wind's part in the Texas energy crisis became a leftist news necessity: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/02/14/historic-winter-storm-freezes-texas-wind-turbines-hampering-electric-generation/4483230001/ So that's half of a quarter of the energy supply that went down. Natural Gas, coal and nuclear had to pick up the slack. They couldn't. They weren't prepared. More stuff froze up. Solar wasn't even in the picture. What was available had already been taken out by a snowstorm. I heard it described this way. "Two handfuls of wind energy went down. One died of frostbite. No problem, right? It's just one hand." So now Circle-back Psaki tells us her boss is going to send Diesel Generators as a fix. Notice he's not sending more windmills.

So sayeth the State Broadcaster of Canada. I'm one to hear both sides. Somebody linked me to some smug MSNBC communist concerning this matter on another thread. As is usual with such types he was misinterpreting (otherwise known as lying about) what the right is being told about Texans energy problems dealing with the Polar Vortex. Let me help those restricted to corporate and state media. Here's what we're actually being told: https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/18/texass-blackouts-are-the-result-of-unreliable-green-energy/

Oh wait...so the excuse has changed again, has it? Now it's not frozen coal and Natural Gas lines. Now it's frozen water supply. What? They still can't make up their minds? The first explanation still sounds the best to me. About half the wind Turbines that supply about a quarter of the energy to Texas froze up (I've seen pictures). This strained the supply of coal and natural gas energy and they cut back or went down. More stuff froze up making re-supply difficult to impossible and allowed Ercot to go eenie, meenie, miney moe for a new excuse as they got more criticism about the last one.

Oh and concerning the climate versus weather thing. This recent eastern cold blast isn't really a weather thing. It's been happening intermittently for awhile now. They blame the Polar Vortex. Want a good laugh. Some of your Thunberg level global warming scientists are theorizing Global Warming is making it colder when the Polar Vortex acts up.

Frozen lines was Ercot's second excuse. The first time they came up with an excuse it was that they'd run out of supply for coal and natural gas. So take your pick of excuses. I know which one I pick. Texas seems to be the only place natural gas is freezing up because of all of the water that is supposedly everywhere is Texas freezing up all the coal and natural gas lines. Ask Germany. Or any of the other European windmill hotspots that are all the time experiencing black of brownouts. Apparently Germany is having a problem this year with snow covering their solar panels. I imagine there's de-icing tech for those too, but it doesn't seem to be helping.

Yeah, I was reading up on what it takes to winterize wind turbines too. Sounds like an expensive process. In more ways than one. https://www.westernjournal.com/polar-vortex-proving-exactly-green-energy-disaster-americas-power-grid/ Might be worth rebuilding to winterize the vast network of Texas windmills though. I hear it costs about 900 dollars to charge up a Tesla in Texas today. Be cheaper just to go back to coal though. And no, I don't believe Ercot's BS that coal doesn't work in the Texas cold spell either. That doesn't make sense. Coal works all over the world in much colder regions. As does natural gas for that matter without expensive renovations. Ercot didn't want to invest in back-up supply of coal and natural gas because the bulk of their investing was going to their new toy - windmills. And now they're going to have to winterize them. Hey...remember John Kerry telling out of work Keystone people to find new jobs? Maybe he should take his own advice.

The Beave with the Feeve might also want to check this one out: Some Democrats still refusing to accept election results

Yeah Beave, if you want to use comments Hilary made after election night how about this one?

So you mean Trump was the legitimate President in 2016? But wasn't the Mueller investigation all about proving the Russians colluded on his campaign so Trump wasn't the legitimate president? I know I've seen you support the Russian collusion delusion so you're not lying are you? Kind of sounds like you are.

Or your ability to observe the obvious. Like the evidence: https://hereistheevidence.com/ This one's so good YouTube banned it: https://www.bitchute.com/video/hyaHNmQKVxql/

Hopefully this time a court will let them present the evidence.

Do it then. Because you've never been right about anything. Including how right you seem to think you are.

Speaking of Calgary and getting lucky though... Big fan of Michelle Rempell. Bet you're not, Mister "Moderate."

And here you are to prove it. Hey, congratulations. This is the first time I've seen you offer up support for one of your cockamamie, out the butt, leftist trolls. Figures you'd be a Flames fan. Happy we could train a goalie and a defensive defense man for you. Congratulations on getting lucky last night.

Are you sure you're not a fairy princess on the back of a unicorn? Because I'd believe that before I believed you were a moderate.

Now as to the Bloomberg writers claim it's natural gas lines that are freezing and not wind turbines. Thats fair I asked to see something like that and you found it. Now let's ask ourselves, which story makes more sense. It would be interesting to know how natural gas lines versus windmills fair up here in Canadian winters. Do they shut one or the other down?