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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4778996" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Listened to an expert talk about that tonight.&nbsp; Taking that 25% offline with frozen wind turbines overloaded the remaing power plants and caused them to shut down..&nbsp; If the system was 100% fossil fuel in the winter with wind brought online in milder weather there wouldn&#039;t be an issue.&nbsp; But Texas normally doesn&#039;t have severe winter weather on this scale so they were caught by surprise.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been living this since Sunday night.&nbsp; I have a membership with Planet Fitness which has been closed as have most businesses since Sunday evening.&nbsp; Means I haven&#039;t had a shower since Sunday afternoon.&nbsp; Very few restaurants open and most of those have limited hours.&nbsp; Wal-Mart closing at 6 p.m., opening 9 a.m. with a lot of empty shelves.&nbsp; The point is you better make damn sure things will work when you need them to and this desire to completely get rid of fossil fuels will bite us all and could cost a lot of lives.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 4778996, member: 24302"] Listened to an expert talk about that tonight. Taking that 25% offline with frozen wind turbines overloaded the remaing power plants and caused them to shut down.. If the system was 100% fossil fuel in the winter with wind brought online in milder weather there wouldn't be an issue. But Texas normally doesn't have severe winter weather on this scale so they were caught by surprise. I've been living this since Sunday night. I have a membership with Planet Fitness which has been closed as have most businesses since Sunday evening. Means I haven't had a shower since Sunday afternoon. Very few restaurants open and most of those have limited hours. Wal-Mart closing at 6 p.m., opening 9 a.m. with a lot of empty shelves. The point is you better make damn sure things will work when you need them to and this desire to completely get rid of fossil fuels will bite us all and could cost a lot of lives. [/QUOTE]

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